Where can I find information about ragtime?

Performing Arts Reading Room, Library of Congress. Ragtime, a uniquely American, syncopated musical phenomenon, has been a strong presence in musical composition, entertainment, and scholarship for over a century. It emerged in its published form during the mid-1890s and quickly spread across the continent via published compositions.

What is ragtime style of music?

Ragtime -- A genre of musical composition for the piano, generally in duple meter and containing a highly syncopated treble lead over a rhythmically steady bass. A ragtime composition is usually composed three or four contrasting sections or strains, each one being 16 or 32 measures in length.

What are syncopations in ragtime music?

Syncopations in the genre of piano ragtime are varied and intricate as well as simple. This motif and more complex syncopations were commonly heard in head music (music played totally by ear) performed in the Caribbean, the southern states, and the Georgia Sea Islands.

How did Ragtime change American culture?

Ragtime was both exciting and threatening to America’s youth and staid polite society, respectively. The excitement came from syncopation--the displacing of the beat from its regular and assumed course of meter.

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Where can I find information about ragtime?
Performing Arts Reading Room, Library of Congress. Ragtime, a uniquely American, syncopated musical phenomenon, has been a strong presence in musical composition, entertainment, and scholarship for over a century. It emerged in its published form during the mid-1890s and quickly spread across the continent via published compositions.
What is ragtime style of music?
Ragtime -- A genre of musical composition for the piano, generally in duple meter and containing a highly syncopated treble lead over a rhythmically steady bass. A ragtime composition is usually composed three or four contrasting sections or strains, each one being 16 or 32 measures in length.
What are syncopations in ragtime music?
Syncopations in the genre of piano ragtime are varied and intricate as well as simple. This motif and more complex syncopations were commonly heard in head music (music played totally by ear) performed in the Caribbean, the southern states, and the Georgia Sea Islands.
How did Ragtime change American culture?
Ragtime was both exciting and threatening to America’s youth and staid polite society, respectively. The excitement came from syncopation--the displacing of the beat from its regular and assumed course of meter.

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