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Ragtime, also spelled rag-time or rag time, is a musical style that had its peak from the 1890s to 1910s. Its cardinal trait is its syncopated or "ragged" rhythm. Ragtime was popularized during the early 20th century by composers such as Scott Joplin, James Scott and Joseph Lamb.
- Maple Leaf Rag
The "Maple Leaf Rag" is a multi-strain ragtime march with...
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"The Entertainer" is a 1902 classic piano rag written by...
- List of Ragtime Composers
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Jun 5, 2024 · Ragtime, propulsively syncopated musical style, one forerunner of jazz and the predominant style of American popular music from about 1899 to 1917. Ragtime evolved in the playing of honky-tonk pianists in the last decades of the 19th century. Its best-known composer was Scott Joplin.
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Jul 8, 2021 · Ragtime music, a precursor to jazz, is a jaunty, syncopated form of American popular music that thrived in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Jun 25, 2024 · Ragtime music is a style of piano music characterized by its “ragged” or syncopated rhythm, where the melody is played in a syncopated style against a regular, steady bass line. This creates a lively, energetic, and somewhat jaunty sound.
- Syncopation -- The "Misplaced" Beat. Ragtime was both exciting and threatening to America's youth and staid polite society, respectively. The excitement came from syncopation--the displacing of the beat from its regular and assumed course of meter.
- Banjo and Fiddle. It is not easy to tell when and where this lively, rhythmically propulsive music began, but it is possible to point to some very specific roots and to see it bear fruit.
- The Heart of Ragtime. Missouri, located in the center of America, was the heartland of ragtime. As noted by popular music historians David Jasen and Gene Jones, "There were more rags--and more good rags--from Missouri than anywhere else."
- The Sound of Ragtime. By the early 1890s Americans had become infatuated with the multi-strained "March and two-step," which was basically the same as a march.
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Jul 9, 2018 · Considered the first completely American music, ragtime was popular towards the end of the 19th century and into the first two decades of the 20th century, roughly 1893 to 1917. It is the style of music that preceded jazz.
Jan 29, 2018 · After a while I'm back with a short music theory related video explaining what is ragtime, an amazing musical style today somehow forgotten (or at least not very popular).
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