Ragtime

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.…

Jazz didn’t start out as Jazz, it was once called Ragtime. This was a composed piano style and was the first major black music style. Jazz was an innovation from Ragtime, they had similar music in them like the piano, but Jazz added sole and also added more brass instruments. Ragtime started in Sedalia Missouri where artist like Scott Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton got their taste of fame in the music world. Scott Joplin was an African-American pianist and composer. He was born into a musical…

suggestion that “the ODJB’s recordings are rooted in the past,” being more similar to ragtime than The Creole Jazz Bands style of Jazz, which “points toward the future of jazz” makes a valid point (Starr & Waterman, 88). ODJBs were playing during the ragtime craze, so their music exemplifies some of that, but begins to carry some of the predominate features of jazz. Even “Dipper Mouth Blues” still has some of the ragtime influence in it and there is again a difference between this song and…

the period was Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield. She was born a slave but known as the “Black Swan, Taylor gained renown for her vocal range” (pg. 148). Music progressed through the late 19th and early 20th century in the form of ragtime, jazz, and…

mix of blues, marches, ragtime, brass and other kinds of music.…

During the late 1800s, Military marches and small bands created a style of jazz known as Ragtime. It is a style of music with accompaniments that have several accented notes combined with melodies that are highly syncopated. Piano is the main instrument used in Ragtime but it is also played by small bands with several combinations of instruments, this style became an early influence on jazz. In the early 1900s, Ragtime was played in many bars and clubs as it was starting to get very popular.…

arrives with some of his friends, and they go out to clubs at night. In these clubs, Ragtime, a popular style of music, starts to spread. The way Ragtime sounds capture Johnson’s thoughts into wanting to play the piano again. As the music starts to play in the club, Johnson thought, “This was ragtime music, then a novelty in New York, and just growing to be a rage which has not yet subsided” (Johnson 46). Ragtime inspires Johnson to start…