{"product_id":"handy-wc-st-louis-blues-2nd-ed","title":"Handy, WC :: St. Louis Blues, 2nd Ed.","description":"\u003cspan class=\"NameInDesc\"\u003eSt. Louis Blues, 2nd Ed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ComposerInDesc\"\u003eHandy, WC\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusicians Publications presents W.C. Handy s  St. Louis Blues, 2nd Edition  arranged for woodwind quintet by Bill Holcombe and Bill Holcombe Jr. Scored for flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn, and bassoon, this flexible quintet also includes an optional bass clarinet part to replace the bassoon when necessary. This quintet is intermediate in difficulty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In 1912, when Handy published the  Memphis Blues,  the word blues was used primarily to describe an emotional state depression, melancholy. Songs specifically about these issues did not come into being until something like 400 years after the first mentions of the  blue devils  appeared in English. Once blues songs emerged, around 1900, they had a single overriding theme: bad luck in love. There were blues about other things bedbugs, floods, and other irritants and calamities. There were virtually no blues about political matters, not even racial ones, until many years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn St. Louis, Handy found that his gifts as a singing guitarist had some value and he took in the nightlife of Targee Street, which gave him a taste for urban high society. Ever alert to the songs of balladeers and street singers, in 1893 he heard a despondent woman sing  My man s got a heart like a rock cast in the sea.  It would become the final refrain to his biggest hit,  St. Louis Blues,  over 20 years later. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Elliot Hurwitt, 2018\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Musicians Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46968665276710,"sku":"MPWQ232","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/3559\/5814\/products\/700000000MPWQ232_d.jpg?v=1697517069","url":"https:\/\/www.flute4u.com\/products\/handy-wc-st-louis-blues-2nd-ed","provider":"Carolyn Nussbaum Music Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}