If you know, please state the origins, composers and main instrument they use.
2007-03-09 17:56:21 · 6 answers · asked by calvinlzc 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Ragtime is an American musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity between 1899 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), frequently 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".
Ragtime is not a "time" (meter) in the same sense that march time is 2/4 meter and waltz time is 3/4 meter; it is rather a musical genre that uses an effect that can be applied to any meter. The defining characteristic of ragtime music is a specific type of syncopation in which melodic accents fall between metrical beats. This results in a melody that seems to be avoiding some metrical beats of the accompaniment by emphasizing notes that either anticipate or follow the beat. The ultimate (and intended) effect on the listener is actually to accentuate the beat, thereby inducing the listener to move to the music. Scott Joplin, the composer/pianist known as the "King of Ragtime", called the effect "weird and intoxicating". He also used the term "swing" in describing how to play ragtime music: "Play slowly until you catch the swing...".[1] The name swing later came to be applied to an early genre of jazz that developed from ragtime. Converting a non-ragtime piece of music into ragtime by changing the time values of melody notes is known as "ragging" the piece. Original ragtime pieces usually contain several distinct themes, four being the most common number.
Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Ernest Hogan are some of the most famous.
A lot more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragtime_music
2007-03-09 17:59:24 · answer #1 · answered by elf2002 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a style of music popular in he post civil war era here in the US, the pre-cursor to jazz. One of its most popular and well known proponents was a composed named Scott Joplin. Among he other works one of his most famous and well known was The Entertainer, which was used as the main title song for the Movie "The Sting" with Robert Redford. The main instrument of this music was the piano, althoug brass instruments were also prominent in it.
2007-03-09 21:47:02 · answer #2 · answered by kveldulf_gondlir 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ragtime was introduced or rather noted to be introduced by joplin
It is a sort of question and answer on the piano. It led into the jazz sensation... one famous ragtime composition is the maple leaf rag...does this help?? Wendy
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2007-03-09 18:02:16 · answer #3 · answered by Wendy B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just good music-Scott Joplin was a genius.
2016-03-28 22:25:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Joplin, piano.
2007-03-09 18:04:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Rip off your shirt and raise your erect weapon to the sun!!!
2007-03-09 21:04:49 · answer #6 · answered by Kieran 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋