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Ragtime (alternately spelle Rag-time) is an American musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity between 1897 and 1918. It has had several periods of revival since then and is still being composed today. Ragtime was the first truly American musical genre, predating jazz. It began as dance music in popular music settings years before being published as popular sheet music for piano. Being a modification of the then popular march, it was usually written in 2/4 or 4/4 time (meter) with a predominant left hand pattern of bass notes on odd-numbered beats and chords on even-numbered beats accompanying a syncopated melody in the right hand. A composition in this style is called a "rag". A rag written in 3/4 time is a "ragtime waltz".

Trivia about ragtime

  • In 1999 this Broadway musical was advertised with the line: "Before the Century Ends, See How It All Began"
  • Popular in the early 1900s, it's the style of music & piano playing heard here
  • Stravinsky wrote a composition for 11 instruments in this style that's most associated with Scott Joplin
  • Scott Joplin is a famous performer & composer of this musical style
  • Stephen Flaherty, not Scott Joplin, wrote the music for this show that's based on a novel by E.L. Doctorow
  • Joplin was a master of this musical style that emerged from saloons in the late 19th century
  • This 1975 E.L. Doctorow novel relates the story of Coalhouse Walker Jr., who's harassed by local firemen
  • Scott Joplin wrote, "Never play" this style of music "fast"
  • "Wheels of a Dream" is one of the big numbers from this musical set in the early 20th century
  • This Terrence McNally musical is based on a novel by E.L. Doctorow
  • (Hi, I'm Brian Stokes Mitchell.) I played the troubled piano player Coalhouse Walker, Jr. in this Broadway musical based on a novel by E.L. Doctorow
  • In this E.L. Doctorow novel set around 1900, the radical sibling is known only as Younger Brother

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