So, for example, a C major chord is made up of the notes C,E,G. Before we go on, I shall explain what I just stated in that last sentence - chords that you use everyday in writing songs are usually built up of thirds. I will start by stating that from Mozart to Pink Floyd, from Litz to Aerosmith the language of western music is based on the very same triadic harmony and the diatonic scale, using tonic, predominant, dominant, tonic movement for the most part. In the following lines, I will discuss the importance of the music in general, and of blues in particular, not only in the thematic realm as critics such as Cat Moses in his вЂњThe Blues Aesthetic in Toni MorrisonвЂ™s The Bluest EyeвЂќ (African American Review, Winter 1999) or Abdellatif KhayatiвЂ™s вЂњRepresentation, race and the вЂњlanguageвЂќ of the ineffable in Toni MorrisonвЂ™s narrativeвЂќ (African American Review, Summer, 1999) have done but also in the structural realm of the book.Д«efore going any further, it is very important to introduce several basic concepts related to вЂњmusical theoryвЂќ in order to understand future thesis statements. However, Toni Morrison uses вЂњblues aestheticsвЂќ not only to develop the thematic level of the story, to recreate the memory of the past African American generations, but also to build the structural pattern of the novel. That is to say, Claudia is the voice for PecolaвЂ™s blues and the communityвЂ™s blues as well. Being the вЂњEyeвЂќ of the title not only PecolaвЂ™s longing for blue eyes, but also a reference to the eye that Claudia takes at Pecola. Both the song and the novel exhibits a physical progression from an initial statement of loss to a concluding statement of resolution. Louis BluesвЂ™ in The Bluest Eye, the song ClaudiaвЂ™s mother used to sing during her childhood, Morrison has chosen a blues that registers all of the central concerns of the story. What is more, Morrison has stated that her narrative вЂњeffort is to be like something that has probably only been fully expressed perhaps in music.вЂќ (Interview 408) and The Bluest Eye is the genesis of her effort вЂњto do what the music did for blacks, what we used to be able to do with each other in private and in that civilization that existed underneath the white civilizationвЂќ (Morrison, вЂњLanguageвЂќ 371).

As Trudier Harris has pointed out, MorrisonвЂ™s use of suppressed popular communicative forms вЂ“ visual, oral, musical, and more вЂ“ is an integral part of her uncovering вЂњdiscreditedвЂќ knowledge (MorrisonвЂ™s deployment of the folk traditional-bearers and the transmission of popular memory, by Trudier Harris).

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