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Ragtime (ragged-time, «tiempo rasgado»), abreviado en ocasiones como «rag», es un género musical estadounidense que se popularizó a finales del siglo XIX derivado de la marcha, caracterizado por una melodía sincopada y un ritmo acentuado en los tiempos impares (primer, segundo y tercero).
Ragtime, propulsively syncopated musical style, one forerunner of jazz and the predominant style of American popular music from about 1899 to 1917. Ragtime evolved in the playing of honky-tonk pianists in the last decades of the 19th century. Its best-known composer was Scott Joplin.
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Ragtime, also spelled rag-time or rag time, is a musical style that had its peak from the 1890s to 1910s. Its cardinal trait is its syncopated or "ragged" rhythm. Ragtime was popularized during the early 20th century by composers such as Scott Joplin, James Scott and Joseph Lamb.
Ragtime was everywhere by the early 1900s--in sheet music, piano rolls, phonograph records, and ragtime piano playing contests, as well as in music boxes, vaudeville theaters, and bordellos. Publishing houses churned out piano rags and ragtime songs at a furious pace.
Ragtime, first published in 1975, is a historical fiction novel by E. L. Doctorow that weaves a tapestry of intersecting lives in early 20th-century America. Set against the backdrop of historical events, the novel tells the stories of three families–an upper-class family in New Rochelle, an immigrant and his daughter, and a ragtime pianist ...
Ragtime was one of the most popular forms of music in the United States between 1897 and 1917. Read the history along with videos and playlists.
It is evident that ragtime had an oral tradition before it was written down and sold as sheet music. There are, however, few sound documents of this early period. Because it is a part of the unwritten Afro-American tradition, the roots of ragtime music are difficult to trace. In addition, at
