The Rag

After listening and reading about the different styles of jazz, I found they did infact have distinct difference. The first example provided in the module was "Tiger Rag" by La Rocca. This Dixieland jazz song provided an example of the techniques used in this type of jazz. I really enjoyed the upbeat feeling of this song. Listening to the notes played, they appeared to play a rather large scale from high to low. When the music cuts out to focus one instrument it really creates a unique sound.…

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part of her race. The language used to describe her versus the language used to describe the black men vary in connotation. Words such as “hypnotized”, “excels”, and “captures” are used when referring to the effect that Liza Jane, “the lady with the rag-time walk”, is making upon the men she encounters. The diction that the composer uses to define her is perceived as complementary, presenting her beauty as enrapturing, making it hard for all the men to resist. Conversely, the diction used to…

decent life his mother a domestic and his father a butler who had a part-time catering business. Duke studied piano since the age of seven and was influences by pianist, James Johnson and Willie the Lion Smith. He wrote his first song “The Soda Fountain Rag”, at the age of seventeen. This title was influenced by a small part-time job that he had as a soda jerk. Duke attended the Armstrong Training School to study commercial arts but he wanted to be a musician so he never completed his course.…

Over the course of this year I read eight books and each and every one of them have taught me a different story or way of life. Two of my favorite novels were The Rag and Bone Shop, by Robert Cormier and The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls. The Rag and Bone Shop taught me how much one person can manipulate you and that the way people talk to you can affect your perception of the actual situation. In the novel, the young boy Jason’s friend Alicia gets murdered. Trent, the detective on the…

step. They were falling apart. Most people around Paris knew Henry Raggle as “Rags”, the homeless war veteran that was almost too poor to eat. His best source of income was begging and gaining information on the Milieu Gang. They were the biggest gang in Paris and people payed for information on their movements. Rags didn’t know much about the gang, but everyone hears rumors and whispers of what the gang will do next. Rags has seen the gang murder before, in an alley on an extremely musky night,…

styles than that of African-American styles. For example, there are four melodic sections to the rag (A, B, C, D) and the form is much like that of a classical piece. Even so, the combination of both African-American and European classical forms were what led to his creation of ragtime. This piece was structured in sixteen-measure increments like most rags, as discussed earlier. “Maple Leaf Rag” contains a typical technique in ragtime in which the left hand is in direct coordination with the…

Alejandro Morales’ novel, The Rag Doll Plagues, consists of three books, each depicting different periods of history with three men belonging to the same family. The connecting stories tackle numerous issues such as ethics, culture, and social inequality. Morales focuses frequently on discrimination and how it has the ability to affect all people regardless of the time. Like in this quote: “It severely criticized the disrespectful attire of the people that came from Orange County’s Hispanic…

It has been said many times before, that the story of Andrew Carnegie was a true rags to riches story. He is one of the pioneers of the industrialization of America and the king of the steel industry in the 1800’s. Nearing the turn of the century Carnegie sold his multi-billion dollar companies and turned his focus onto philanthropy. He was one, if not the first, to publicly say all of the rich had a moral obligation to give away their fortune. Carnegie ‘put his money where his mouth was’ by…

"From rags to riches" is a frequently used term describing someone who started in a poor situation and became someone who performs meaningful actions. Doing good deeds, or being a good person, wouldn't be as difficult for a person who started with money, food and a good home. However, it becomes a different story when drugs, alcohol, violence, and poverty are thrown into the mix. Sydney Carton, one of the main characters in A Tale of Two Cities, and Mark Wahlberg, a present day actor, both went…