ragtime

Noun

ragtime

1. (music) A style of jazz with a highly syncopated melody and rhythmic accents on the weak beats.

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• Definitions:
• A style of jazz with elaborately syncopated rhythm in the melody and a steadily accented accompaniment.
• A piano style that evolved in the USA during the early 20th Century. Ragtime is a mixture of Afro-American and European influence, and was one of the most important precursors for jazz.
• An early type of jazz, in vogue from about 1895 to 1920, usually written out rather than improvised. Most ragtime was played on the piano. Scott Joplin was the most famous composer of ragtime.
• A non-improvised, notated late 19th-early 20th century style of piano-based music characterized by its syncopated, distinctive so-called "ragged" right hand movement on the keyboard; an influence on and direct precursor of early jazz; a piano style with stride left hand and highly syncopated ...
• a cheerful variant of the blues, based on piano and jazz band music of the 1920s and 30s. A typical chord progression in the key of C would be CFCFCFEFADGC. Many of the chords would be played as sevenths. ...
• A kind of music that uses a syncopated rhythm. Jazz music grew
• A type of popular American music, usually for piano, that arose around 1900 and contributed to the emergence of jazz.
• A musical precursor of jazz, generally played on the piano, that appeared in the first years of the 20th century and that combined European classical technique with syncopated rhythms, which were said to “rag” the time.
• A late-19 th to early-20th century style of piano music exemplified by its syncopated, ‘ragged’ right-hand melody.
• music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)
• Ragtime is an American musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity between 1899 and 1918. It has had several periods of revival since then and is still being composed today. Ragtime was the first truly American musical genre, predating jazz. ...
• Ragtime is a 1981 motion picture based on the historical novel Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow. The action takes place in and around New York City in the 1910s, and includes fictionalized references to actual people and events of the time. The film was directed by Miloš Forman. ...
• Ragtime is a 1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow. This work of historical fiction is mostly set in New York City from about 1900 until the United States entry into World War 1 in 1917. ...
• Ragtime is a musical with a book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and music by Stephen Flaherty.
• RagTime is a scientific, technical and business desktop publishing computer program. The software combines spreadsheet features with word processing and embedded multimedia.

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