MUSI 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Creole Music, Ragtime, The New York Times
29 Sep 2016
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Musical characteristics: short long short syncopation in melody, steady accompaniment (harmony-straight rhythm, multi-strain form came from marches. Trio ccdd which is a totally new tune. Ragtime craze (1897-1920: world"s fair 1893 chicago, began by ragging popular sentimental songs. New style minstrel songs, hymns, parlor songs: sheet music and piano rolls. Huge sheets of music with holes fed to player pianos which would play the keys itself; upperclass. Reaction to ragtime: from the ny times: immoral music came from african american stereotypes. Ragtime: maple leaf rag : scott joplin, short long short syncopation, aabba ccdd form. Irving berlin (sang in bars, dropped out of school to make money, poor: great american songbook , jewish immigrant changed name to seem less jewish, made ragtime mainstream. Blackness in alexander"s ragtime band: short long short syncopation, dialect oh ma honey , alexander african american that was common, ragging reference, but ragtime isn"t accredited to african americans.
