MUSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dime (United States Coin), New Americana, Blue-Collar Worker
20 May 2016
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Style that was popular from 1890"s to the 1910"s. The style has a syncopated rhythm (african juba) against a regular, march-like bass. So, ragtime music is, simply, syncopated rhythm maddened into a desperate interativeness; a rhythm overdone, to please the present taste . Began as an improvisatory practice (music for cakewalks) Interesting to note that it did not begin as syncopated (was printed without syncopation until. Most well known as piano style of music. In the late 20th century there were statements made about ragtime being a primarily piano genre. Ragtime was distributed by sheet music (to be played on piano at home essentially) Scott joplin (1867-1917) son of a former slave studied music in texas, worked in missouri and nyc interested in art music (wanted to be a high art composer aka classical type music) pianist and composer. He wanted his rags to be viewed as art music/classical music. Original take on the form= aa bb a cc dd.
