Ragtime
- Created by: Maddy Hamilton
- Created on: 06-05-15 09:15
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- Ragtime
- Originated from African-American music in the late 19th century
- Plantation songs
- Marches
- Cakewalk
- Style derived from jigs and marches played by African-American bands
- Rhythm
- 2/4 and 4/4
- Syncopated melody in the right hand
- Lively and Springy
- 'Ragged' time
- Stride Piano
- Popular between 1893-1917
- Composers
- Scott Joplin
- Jelly Roll Morton
- Eubie blake
- James P. Johnson
- Spread by print music and piano rolls
- Written to accompany dancing
- Originated from African-American music in the late 19th century
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