Ragtime

Alaadeen once said, “Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.” Among the early music styles, Ragtime and Blues are two contributors which largely influenced the emergence of Jazz. Jazz is a form of music combines the characteristics and sound of Ragtime and Blues. The syncopation and improvisation of Ragtime and the polyrhythm and swing feeling of Blues all became the main features of the jazz. I am going to talk about…

left his the railway laborer job and went around South America as an itinerant musician. In the year 1893, he went to Chicago for the World’s fair and played a key part in making ragtime a national craze by the year 1897. He moved to…

sold to into slavery, respectively. Originally from New Orleans around the 1890s, Jazz remains today as a remarkable type of art form that is crucial to American culture and history. It primarily came from two musical predecessors: the blues and ragtime. A major…

emerged (Carruth 53). Similar to ragtime, blues resulted from the traditional sound of West African music. However, it is very different in terms of its tone and mood. “While ragtime is jangly and spirited, the blues takes after its name: blue, or melancholy” (Szepesi). Blues is known for its call-and-response and twelve-bar blues contributions to jazz. Most notably, its hypnotically smooth “groove” rhythm is what really sets it apart from ragtime. Also, unlike ragtime, blues incorporates…

Viewed as the king of Ragtime, as it was the main genre this african american pianist was known for. Scott Joplin was one of the most famous composers of the early twentieth century. Most known for his pieces such as “The Maple Leaf Rag”,“The Entertainer”, and “Solace” he immersed himself in music at a very young age, learning to play the piano as a child and becoming a travelling musician as a teenager. Scott Joplin truly is an important individual to not only the african american history but…

Rewinding back to the 1890s, so many ragtime compositions were published and played all over America. Ragtime even spread to Europe, where it was loved. It was an early genre of Jazz and is mostly in duple meter (time in 4/4 or 2/4) and played by piano, a melodic instrument such as saxophone, clarinet, or trumpet, and bass. At this time, marching bands and military bands were the tradition of American music. Ragtime music was heavily inspired by composers like John Philip Sousa…

determine whether a song of fact is in fact a blues song. They are the 12-bar form, the blues scale, and the blues poetic formula. 4. Describe how ragtime evolved and some reasons why it became so popular? Slaves often played syncopated music in string ensembles called jug bands consisting of faded and banjos, washboards, and foot stomping. Ragtime became known, pianists used the left hand to substitute for the foot stomping beat and the right hand to simulate the short, syncopated banjo…

shipped to america and be sold in order to work on plantations (Atkins 6). Throughout the twenties jazz had grown and evolved, over time it caused a revolution. People from all over would sit by their radios and listen to this new style of music. Ragtime is a style of music that dominated american culture from 1895 to 1918. The genre has its origins in…

Introduction “Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.” (Miles Davis NYC, 1959) Jazz music was brought to America by African Americans in the early 1900s. This genre of music is a hybrid between European-Western Music, African Music and culture, and later American Music. Jazz music has similar harmonic and orchestrational techniques to European music, which is where classical music originated. African music gave jazz its rhythmic feel, generally drumming, and emotion.…

the most famous ragtime song, was written by Joplin in 1899 (A&E Television Networks 2015). He would later publish many more songs, including The Entertainer, another famous song written by him. Joplin died on April 1st, 1917 (A&E Television Networks 2015). Ragtime is a syncopated musical style that was very popular from the 1890’s to the 1920’s ("History of Ragtime" 2006). Scott Joplin was alive for most of the ragtime era, which made him the most famous composer of the ragtime time period.…