| 单词 | ragtime |
| 例句 | But just as the Blues, ragtime and jazz emerged among the poor, disconnected communities of the American South, there is a modern-day equivalent that was likewise born in areas of deprivation: hip-hop. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He had been expert at ragtime and was becoming even more expert at jazz. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He made his name with ragtime but this style, as we saw in the previous chapter, was in the early 1920s being superseded all over America by jazz. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z If you want practice hearing syncopations, listen to some ragtime or jazz. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Around the time that ragtime and the Blues were giving way to jazz in mainland America, a form of music called son was becoming popular in Cuba. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Figure 1.70: Syncopation is one of the most important elements in ragtime music, as illustrated in this example from Scott Joplin's Peacherine Rag. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z On weekend evenings they gathered around the old upright piano in the club’s parlor and sang for hours as Don Hume tore through jazz tunes, show tunes, blues, and ragtime. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He knew that she lived with her mother and stepfather, sinful people, given to drinking and gambling and ragtime music and the blues, who never, except at Christmastime or Easter, appeared in church. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z As it was passed from ragtime to early ‘Dixieland’ jazz bands, though, syncopation became more sophisticated: now, instead of the right hand cheating the left, one instrumentalist was playing against another. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Click here to view dances of the ragtime era These encouraged dancers to kick up their feet, rock crazily from side to side and lock their swaying pelvises together. When flappers ruled the Earth: how dance helped women's liberation 2013-04-29T06:00:22Z So we just immersed ourselves in this fascinating transitional period when ragtime is just beginning to turn into jazz. Television: On the Boardwalk, HBO Hangs Out With a New Mob 2010-09-03T19:34:00Z He has also pieced together how the neighborhood’s black composers, performers and music publishers collaborated with Jewish counterparts to sell ragtime, jazz, blues and patriotic marches. Antiques: Black and Jewish Music, Kentucky Cabinets, Magician Posters 2012-12-06T22:01:49Z There are hints of ragtime and bursts of popular dance. Review: Wynton Marsalis’s Urban Symphony for the Philharmonic 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z In his search for “authentic” musical material, he drew from the kinds of music used in Belasco’s play: polkas, waltzes, ragtime and Latin-American tunes. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z Scott Joplin’s ragtime piano tinkled softly in the cafe, the greenhouse, and in a 1930s house that has been turned into the garden’s Museum of Botany & the Arts. A Florida Garden Brings Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Work to Life, in Bloom 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z “During his cubism work in Paris, he listened to ragtime. When he started using double black lines, his music was more up-tempo.” The Hague paints the town red, blue and yellow in honor of artist Mondrian 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Lehrer’s songs, however, are fortified by his impeccable use of musical form, as in “The “Vatican Rag,” whose strict ragtime melody attached to words like “genuflect” and “transubstantiate” is irresistibly funny. Music Review: At 92nd Street Y, the Art of the Satiric Comedy Comes Alive 2010-05-09T22:15:00Z By then, he had long been known as “Mr. Ragtime,” the unofficial keeper of America’s ragtime legacy. Max Morath, Pianist Who Staged a One-Man Ragtime Revival, Dies at 96 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Pianist Conal Fowkes was a favorite, adding ragtime, blues, gospel and saloon colors to the band's Dixieland sound, which ranged from whispered restraint to ecstatic chaos. Woody Allen's jazz band warmly received 2011-12-27T19:45:04Z It's little more than a peg on which to hang Cy Coleman's exuberant songs, which range from ragtime to ballads and marches, all highly pleasurable. Barnum – review 2013-07-25T17:08:57Z The entire ensemble moved as one from a section inspired by New Orleans ragtime to another evoking Kansas City swing, from frenetic bebop to Third Stream fusion. Music Review: The New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-06-02T20:37:30Z There’s even a memorable passage in which the piano seems to venture into something approaching ragtime. Hearing the Mystery in Sibelius 2011-08-15T21:18:14Z What do ragtime and stride piano, two early forms of jazz, have to do with the Cuban rhythm also known as the tango? Review: Tapping Out Some New World Rhythms 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Check, as the ragtime pianist Coalhouse Walker Jr. — played by a splendid Kevin McAllister, whose sunny disposition gradually turns to cold fury — refuses to give in as white supremacists trash his shiny Model T. Review | ‘Ragtime’ sings with purpose at Ford’s Theatre 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Instructions on the scores warn against sloppy improvisation: “Play slowly until you catch the swing, and never play ragtime fast at any time.” Art of Internment Camps Will Head to Auction 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z He learned British folk songs and sang them in an amiable tenor, and he was drawn to ragtime and the blues, particularly the fingerpicking complexity of early rural blues. John Renbourn, Eclectic Guitarist Who Founded the Pentangle, Dies at 70 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z And then he cut to the “Moment of Zen”: a black-and-white clip of a chimpanzee washing a cat in a sink, set to ragtime piano. Jon Stewart’s Big Announcement 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z He obliged with “Praying Mantis Rag,” a propulsive nod to his early studies of ragtime piano in the 1960s. CD reviews: Diana Damrau, ‘Fiamma del Belcanto’; ‘ZOFO Plays Terry Riley’ 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Karp is the author of seven previous mysteries, most of them reflecting his deep knowledge of music boxes and ragtime music. 'A Perilous Conception': a test-tube mystery 2011-12-15T20:53:04Z I really want to liberate him from the two categories where people have tried to fit him: “king of ragtime” or “greatest classical composer you’ve never heard of.” A Pianist Strolls Her Harlem History, and Scott Joplin’s 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Davis built its four movements on ragtime compositions by Robinson, who won a MacArthur "genius grant" in 2004. 'Concerto for a Genius' shows promise, but needs more fire from the piano 2011-01-16T15:56:00Z My eight-year-old son loves the humorous approach to piano music and can’t wait to get skilled enough to play some ragtime himself. Charles Manson: what made him a criminal? - podcasts of the week 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z She found her influences everywhere, in ragtime and raga, in calypso and rock ’n’ roll. Elizabeth Swados, Creator of Socially Conscious Musicals, Is Dead at 64 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Set to ragtime music, the movie introduces a series of lovable, dapper criminals as they construct and populate a fake underground gambling hall to trap their prey. The 25 Best Heist Movies 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z He is credited with deftly combining these folk idioms with European craftsmanship in his piano works, which abound in Lisztian difficulties but also anticipate ragtime and stride. Classical Playlist: Bach, Biber, Gottschalk and More 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z A vicious police dog stands between virtuoso ragtime guitarist Blind Blake and the object of his desire. Readers recommend: Songs about the police - the results 2011-03-24T16:42:45Z En route to Louis Armstrong Park, McCusker, a cool cat in a straw fedora, explained the history of jazz, a musical mutt of blues, ragtime, dirges and marches. New Orleans celebrates 300 years of letting the good times roll 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Fortunately, the one onstage, directed by Jay Binder and Julie Arenal, has many good songs — jazz, ragtime, gospel, rock and even one funny, though totally superfluous, Russian-flavored number — and an excellent cast. Theater Review: ‘Timmy the Great,’ Family Musical, at Theater for the New City 2013-08-21T22:15:47Z His score for “The Sting,” which adapted the ragtime music of Scott Joplin, made him a household ubiquity in 1973. Marvin Hamlisch, Composer, Dies at 68 2012-08-07T20:00:07Z A charming little ragtime ditty called “Splash” segues into a full-Monty skinny-dipping scene, complete with onstage pond and male actors cavorting in the buff. A visit to romance and Italy in ‘Room with a View’ 2014-05-03T00:30:45Z But Charles didn’t want to end the piece on a downer, so the final movement for the orchestra, “House Rent Party,” is a delirious fusion of ragtime, Afro-Venezuelan waltzes and turntablism. The Syncopated Sounds of Old San Juan Hill at the New Geffen Hall 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z I watched him jump from ragtime to classical to bluesy stuff.” For this homeless man, playing Union Station's free piano brings respect and an appreciative crowd 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z At previews starting on Saturday, Bonhams staff members will open compartments to reveal pneumatic gears and perforated paper sheets that generate waltzes and ragtime. Antiques: Revising Our Ideas of Colonial Sewing 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z Though the day of Scott Joplin’s birth is not known for certain, the most generally agreed-upon date is Nov. 24, 1868, meaning that Saturday would be the ragtime pioneer’s 150th birthday. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Nobody has paid the classic ragtime much attention, because of the attitude that folk music had to come from the hills. Max Morath, Pianist Who Staged a One-Man Ragtime Revival, Dies at 96 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z On “Nutty,” he veers toward the traditional — intimating Monk’s stride-piano technique by way of early ragtime guitar, then running through a rising sequence of diminished chords like a bebop guitarist. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z He also wrote books, including the history “They Were Ragtime,” about notable figures from the ragtime era, and a novella, “The Falling Man.” Warren Forma, Documentary Filmmaker, Is Dead at 90 2014-04-17T04:46:17Z The pianist Mr. Hyman, 90, is perhaps jazz’s foremost practitioner of classic ragtime and stride technique. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z “It’s based on this one song written in the 1930s. We recorded it over 50 times with different musicians, everything from ragtime piano to gospel choir,” Aitken says. Sneak peek: Doug Aitken's 'Electric Earth' will shake the MOCA landscape 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z He appears in the second act and has one big number – the ragtime Try It and See, which contains the lyrics: "Prove to me that you're divine/Turn my water into wine." Pass notes, No 3,177: King Herod 2012-05-16T19:00:01Z “The American sound for orchestra is music that deals with the elements of ragtime, rhythm, dance and syncopation.” Screams and silence: the new approach at Seattle Symphony 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Also playing on opening day will be the Xylopholks, a group that performs novelty ragtime music from the 1920s while dressed in animal costumes. | Water Mill: For New York City Buskers, an East End Platform 2013-06-15T01:27:50Z He studied ethnomusicology at Washington University in St. Louis, concentrating on Delta blues and traveling through the South learning blues and ragtime. Bob Brozman, Guitarist, Is Dead at 59 2013-05-02T00:36:58Z A separate room, devoted to ragtime and stride piano, will feature Jon Weber, among others. Jazz Listings for May 16-22 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z She talked with ragtime composer Eubie Blake, who recounted growing up the son of slaves and bringing his pioneering musical “Shuffle Along” to Broadway in 1921. 3,000 Interviews. 50 Years. Listen to the History of American Music. 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z In the 1920s, ragtime was superseded by the wayward jangle and bounce of the Charleston and by the pert, buttock-flourishing naughtiness of the Black Bottom. When flappers ruled the Earth: how dance helped women's liberation 2013-04-29T06:00:22Z The ragtime band will be playing in the courtyard. This Life: The ‘I Dos,’ Unplugged — This Life 2013-06-07T21:54:15Z He noted that New York City is most bearable “to ragtime, cheek to cheek with a pretty stenographer.” Books of The Times: ‘The Long Voyage,’ a Collection of Malcolm Cowley’s Thoughts 2014-02-11T19:43:52Z Based at Travis Air Force Base in California, this troupe plays marches, jazz, ragtime and even pop tunes as part of the U.S. The Week Ahead: ‘The Lion King,’ Lake Street Dive 2014-03-05T21:56:33Z At the heart of the concert, though, was what Denk called an “iPod shuffle” of seven eclectic pieces exploring ragtime. Denk shows range in ‘iPod shuffle’ 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Opener “Obvious Bicycle” is some splicing away from being a James Blake song, with its subtle sub-bass pulse, then its coda morphs into molasses ragtime. Vampire Weekend’s Modern Vampires of the City Lives Up to Title 2013-05-14T09:45:57Z Written several years after L'heure, L'enfant shows Ravel's new musical preoccupations: a Wedgwood teapot and a Chinese teacup dance to a ragtime foxtrot in a score rippled through with jazz, blues and melody. L'heure espagnole/L'enfant et les sortilèges; BBC Prom 33 – review 2012-08-11T23:05:35Z One advertisement on the Swann pages for sale recommends ragtime as an anxiety suppressant, which can “scatter the brooding fears of troubles that are to be but never come.” Art of Internment Camps Will Head to Auction 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The poem's rhythms, that potent blend of nursery rhyme and ragtime, still thrum through me: "You do not do, you do not do/Any more, black shoe" rhyming daringly at the stanza's end with "Achoo". Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z To the young and very aristocratic British socialite Lady Diana Manners, these ragtime dances were part of a new "budding freedom", a sign that "Victorianism" had finally lost its grip. When flappers ruled the Earth: how dance helped women's liberation 2013-04-29T06:00:22Z In La Cañada Flintridge, the concluding concert of Descanso Gardens’ summer performance series will feature the ragtime and Dixieland blues band. 12 picks for family-friendly culture in August 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Then he played a wildly imaginative grouping of 20th-century pieces inspired by, satirizing or paying homage to ragtime. Music in Review: ‘Science Fair,’ Jeremy Denk and the Emerson String Quartet 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Driven by the rhythms of American ragtime, the Bunny Hug, the Turkey Trot and the Grizzly Bear triggered a riotous deviation from the formality of the ballroom. When flappers ruled the Earth: how dance helped women's liberation 2013-04-29T06:00:22Z Please leave your comments and reactions to tonight’s game here, then come to bed and dream of ragtime until next week. ArtsBeat: ‘Downton Abbey’ Recap: Showdown Between Lady Violet and Isobel 2014-02-03T03:00:53Z When Bolcom was putting the finishing touches on that first concerto, in 1976, he had already gained fame as part of the era’s ragtime revival. Decades Later, a Composer Revisits the Piano Concerto 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Somebody once described his music as sounding like a ragtime band -- whose members are each playing a different song. Why was Ornette Coleman so important? Jazz masters both living and dead chime in 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z As sustained quiet, thick-textured string chords convey the overall calm of the scene, urban sounds intrude, with a passing fire engine, pianos playing ragtime from nearby taverns and more. Music Review: On the Express Train to Hell and Other Sonic Journeys 2010-12-05T23:14:00Z But its seductions come and go, a dance here, a ragtime riff there, another twist in the corkscrew plot. Review: Con Men in Tap Shoes Lay Down ‘The Sting’ 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Nutini's second album, last year's Sunny Side Up, found the Paisley pin-up thumbing his nose at the slickness of his successful debut, These Streets, and immersing himself in old-time sounds – soul, reggae, folk, bluegrass, ragtime. Paolo Nutini 2010-04-10T23:08:00Z In 1973, he conducted a conservatory ensemble that won a Grammy Award for an album of ragtime music by Scott Joplin. Gunther Schuller, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who bridged jazz and classical music, dies at 89 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z So as the music in the studio shifts to bouncy ragtime, dancers leap into the centre of the room, where there's a makeshift bar. Washington Ballet's The Sun Also Rises invokes the spirit of Ernest Hemingway 2013-06-11T12:59:03Z This is history as farce, accompanied by calliopes and ragtime; the passage of the 18th Amendment is finally marked by the ringing of a strongman’s bell, as at a carnival. Exhibition Review: ‘American Spirits’ at the National Constitution Center 2012-10-18T22:30:49Z Elsewhere, there's fine, no-nonsense singing from Wallace, who appears both by herself and accompanied by multi-instrumentalist Steel, who demonstrates his stomping banjo work, delicate ukulele playing and spirited ragtime guitar on his solo tracks. Various artists: The Inner Octave ? review 2011-08-18T21:34:00Z Joyous music: 1920s ragtime jazz, by Jelly Roll Morton. Beyond Ballroom: Twyla Tharp’s American Classicism 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z You can at least enjoy the ragtime shuffle of the author’s better sentences. Books of The Times: ‘Sutton,’ by J. R. Moehringer, a Fictional Biography 2012-10-09T12:00:00Z He learned piano while accompanying his mother's gospel singing, and his first influences were blues, hymns, swing, boogie and the "stride" piano style derived from ragtime. 50 great moments in jazz: The renaissance of Thelonious Monk 2010-04-29T15:28:00Z From before the first world war, jazz's parents – ragtime and the blues – had often provided the soundtrack for the new fashions in social dancing. Dancing on the Edge: what was life really like for black jazz bands in 1930s Britain? 2013-02-04T17:46:28Z The listener might not immediately recognize the blues in a guitar style that often sounds rooted in ragtime. Celebrating a subdued kind of blues 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The reputation he did live to experience, as the so-called king of ragtime, was rooted in his earlier piano works written in Missouri, like “Maple Leaf Rag” and “The Entertainer.” A Pianist Strolls Her Harlem History, and Scott Joplin’s 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z “It was a time of sweeping changes in the moral climate of our nation, and Morath uses popular music, chiefly ragtime, as the centrifugal force for sorting out the different phases.” Max Morath, Pianist Who Staged a One-Man Ragtime Revival, Dies at 96 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Beck, a Bargemusic regular, found a delicate balance between ragtime form and mildly spiky melodic turns in Mr. Heller’s two pieces. Music Review: Here and Now Labor Day Festival, at Bargemusic 2012-08-30T21:13:52Z But is there a good reason to revive “Oh, You Kid!,” a 1999 vaudeville-style evocation of the ragtime era that ends up being just plain corny? Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at David H. Koch Theater 2012-03-22T21:52:10Z “While his contemporaries in bluegrass were experimenting in swing in the 1940s and ’50s, Sprung was expanding the acceptable banjo repertoire to include — in addition to swing — ragtime, pop and classical styles as well.” Roger Sprung, Banjo Virtuoso of N.Y.C. Folk Scene, Dies at 92 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z We begin with joyful ragtime, that musical theater fallback for telling Black stories of the early 20th century. Review: In ‘Intimate Apparel,’ Letting the Seamstress Sing 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z The 13-section dance is essentially a sermon, in which the musical styles include bebop, gospel, blues and ragtime. Alvin Ailey Restages ?Mary Lou?s Mass? 2010-06-03T20:55:00Z On a harmonically complicated version of the old Disney standard Someday My Prince Will Come, Tigran shifts seamlessly from jazz waltz to ragtime, from piano-pounding freakout to gentle lullaby, without ever losing that pulse. London Jazz Festival: Tigran Hamasyan – review 2012-11-11T17:51:46Z Like Stravinksy, Weill and others of his European contemporaries, Ravel was swept up by the new American music of the time: ragtime and jazz, whose vivid colours and rhythms are omnipresent in l'Enfant. Glyndebourne 2012: A musical guide to the Ravel opera double bill 2012-08-16T11:05:51Z In the Gershwin, the strings dug into the score’s songful lines so eagerly that Ms. Wang was often overpowered, although at times they lacked the flexibility needed for the concerto’s Charleston, blues and ragtime beats. Review: Yuja Wang and the London Symphony Get Jazzy 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z That was certainly the case in the last century, starting with minstrel music and ragtime and then jazz. Keeping the faith 2010-04-10T23:05:00Z From childhood, he was a good amateur pianist who delighted in the classical repertory and in ragtime. Ronald Broun, lawyer and Washington Post classical music critic, dies at 75 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z It's more Route 66 than A13, and several sound like instant Americana standards, from the jaunty gospel and ragtime of Do Unto Others to the country weepy Swallow My Pride. Billy Bragg: Tooth & Nail – review 2013-03-14T22:45:01Z Mr. Hyman, along with his high-finesse renditions of Scott Joplin ragtime and Fats Waller stride, dutifully inserted a tango bass line into “All the Things You Are.” Review: Tapping Out Some New World Rhythms 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z More often, though, he’s part of the lean, live-sounding band; he adds banjo, ukulele and guitar, and nudges the arrangements toward ragtime or a Caribbean lilt. For New Holiday Albums, It Takes All Kinds 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z There are ragtime and folk-blues influences in some songs here, but she is remarkable for the quirky originality of her writing, with its constant changes of mood and pace, unconventional guitar tunings and cryptic lyrics. Ruth Theodore: Dear Lamp Love Moth – review 2013-06-13T22:00:01Z Born in Chicago to a hardworking immigrant family, Manzarek started piano lessons early, beginning with Beethoven and Bach and progressing to stride piano, ragtime and boogie-woogie by the time he was 12. ‘Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre’ review: The rise and fall of the Doors 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Jolson donned blackface not in jest, it is said, but to introduce white audiences to the thrilling blues and ragtime music pioneered by African Americans. A final night in blackface: Baltimore’s Al Jolson impersonator calls it quits 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Along with the tang of ragtime and tango in this 1918 score for small ensemble, Stravinsky began to experiment with neo-Classical forms, his attempt to remake earlier musical style, including those of Beethoven's era. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z And as Newman’s song often encase misanthropic words in angelic ragtime melodies, so his listeners always had to infer the ironic abrasion between the songwriter and the views of the characters he creates. Randy Newman's Faust: The Devil Laughs and Cries 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z The last installment in the Seattle author's "ragtime mystery trilogy" concerns a journal that Scott Joplin kept that triggers some murderous rivalries. Local books: Chuck Palahniuk's newest, the ark, some dragons and orangutans 2010-05-10T20:22:00Z It doesn’t help that Blitzstein’s score dabbles in ragtime, spirituals and parlor music alongside more conventional styles. Susan Graham, Opera’s Sweetheart, Tries Something New: Being Nasty 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z She — dancing on point, in movements both academically classical and with strong suggestions of ragtime — makes blunders. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Spring Opener Features Balanchine 2013-05-01T22:03:21Z His musical template is humbly of the people this time, which means a little bit gospel, a little bit ragtime, a little bit country-western. | 'Bonnie & Clyde': ?Bonnie & Clyde,? With Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan - Review 2011-12-02T03:37:52Z Along with classical music, Mr. Manzarek also drew on jazz, R&B, cabaret and ragtime. Ray Manzarek, 74, Rock Keyboardist And a Founder of the Doors, Is Dead 2013-05-21T18:15:21Z Mr. Rossi and Mr. Glass shared one piano keyboard for “The Chase,” which had the ornateness of ragtime and old silent-movie accompaniment. Music Review | Tibet House Benefit: Boisterous Bliss in Celebration of an Iron Tiger Year 2010-03-01T05:55:00Z Games were frequently paired with ragtime dances to make for a full evening of entertainment. ‘High Flying Bird’ Is Rich With Historical References. Here’s a Closer Look. 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Here I am, in some ways, I'm back to the ragtime only it's a whole lot bigger and it's in the middle of the center of the universe. Billy Ray Cyrus jumps into Broadway's 'Chicago' 2012-11-05T19:10:09Z She is “a dozen Florestan cocktails filtered through silk,” “a figure come out of Degas to a galloping ragtime tune.” ‘The Astaires,’ by Kathleen Riley 2012-06-01T22:36:06Z A tango, a waltz and ragtime music follow. Stravinsky?s Devil, Reignited 2011-06-03T18:21:16Z Eubie Blake, the American composer, songwriter and ragtime and jazz pianist, lived until he was 100. Mick Jagger: still dancing at 70 2013-07-26T08:00:03Z In 1975, Houston became the first professional opera company to stage a full production of Scott Joplin’s “Treemonisha,” just as the ragtime revival was taking off. David Gockley, Opera Impresario, Hangs Up His Cloak 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z This process is apt considering The Waste Land includes allusions to show tunes, operas, folk ballads and ragtime songs among its linguistic flotsam and jetsam. I will show you Arcade Fire in a handful of dust: why pop music loves TS Eliot 2012-05-23T12:11:40Z “Nothing looms larger in American music than African American music,” he writes, “real, racially fantasized and one-drop-rule conjoined, from blackface minstrelsy to spirituals, ragtime, jazz, blues, rock, soul, hip-hop and E.D.M.” Touring American Pop Music by Way of the Writers Who Have Addressed It 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z The pairing of Bach and jazz, like the pairing of ragtime and Haydn in her 1976 “Push Comes to Shove,” is classic Tharp. Review: From Twyla Tharp, 2 New Pieces for Her Anniversary Tour 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z In the 2000s he recorded for Sojourn Records, with a repertoire that dipped into blues, country, ragtime, jazz standards, gospel and even a Christmas carol. Danny Kalb, Guitarist Who Gave Blues-Rock an Edge, Dies at 80 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z The widow of the ragtime composer Scott Joplin, Lottie Stokes, stored stacks of his early 1900s paperwork in her Harlem basement. Art of Internment Camps Will Head to Auction 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Against a backdrop of racism and violence in 1950s Missouri, the pupil of the brilliant ragtime pioneer Scott Joplin hunts for a lost journal. Crime fiction from the world's hot spots, from Beijing to Sedalia, Mo. 2010-06-09T23:59:00Z Although he was Canadian, his music was steeped in Americana: in blues, country, ragtime, Cajun music, parlor songs, Appalachian ballads, gospel, circus bands, vaudeville and his Indigenous heritage. Robbie Robertson’s 16 Essential Songs 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z “Cathouse Blues” touches unexpectedly on ragtime, while “Blue Water,” with backing vocals by Lady Antebellum, shimmers with traces of country and soul. Stevie Nicks looks back on shimmering '24 Karat Gold' 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Lives Lived: The pianist Max Morath found his calling in a fascination with ragtime. Republicans Against Inequality 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Working with compositions by the late ragtime and jazz pianist Eubie Blake and local contemporary musical group Industrial Revelation, Minor choreographed her piece collaboratively with the students. At UW, 2 choreographers dive into jazz 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Our people created a world-class culture — the spirituals, the blues, ragtime, jazz, folklore. Ask Hollywood, and 'all Black people do' is 'protest.' This new doc rejects that 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z The innovative sound emerged from a number of different communities and from a number of different musical traditions such as blues and ragtime. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z “It’s very melodic. He incorporated all the things he loved as a kid such as jazz, 50s, ragtime,” Wiley Brown said. For the eighth year, locals fete musical legend Chuck Brown 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z Formed in the 1960s, the lilting choir jazzed up traditional Zulu music with a ragtime feel and exported it to the world - most famously through a collaboration with Paul Simon on his 1986 album 'Graceland'. Ladysmith Black Mambazo shrug off power cut to sing for Mandela 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z Rockabilly, ragtime and tango music are all on the schedule. Where to find free outdoor concerts in the D.C. area 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z MyndVR offers visits to flamenco, ragtime and classical music venues, complete with musicians and actors dressed in the style of the day. V.R. ‘Reminiscence Therapy’ Lets Seniors Relive the Past 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z The story of this Black master of the ragtime genre can seem like one that never got far beyond the starting gate and ended with a sad decrescendo. Opinion | Scott Joplin’s Ragtime Is Ambrosia. Here’s Why It Matters. 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z But she was especially known as the title character of “Treemonisha,” one of only several stage works by Joplin, the African American composer and pianist best known for ragtime numbers such as “The Entertainer.” Carmen Balthrop, renowned opera singer and teacher, dies at 73 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z She “played an entrancing Joplin ragtime,” Dr. Gregorian once told the New Yorker. Vartan Gregorian, transformative civic leader and tireless educator, dies at 87 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Re-creations of black Indianapolis in the early 1900s, its sidewalks filled with petticoats and button-up boots, its dainty daytime tea rooms and raucous after-hours ragtime clubs, are fun and captivating. In 'Self Made,' Octavia Spencer gives an unsung heroine her spectacular due 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z The blues and jazz artist’s growly voice, Panama hat and cultivated air of mystery made him seem like a character out of the ragtime era or the Depression-era Mississippi Delta. Passages: Remembering those we lost in 2019 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z He was raised in and around Texarkana, Texas, at turns made a living as a cornet player and a singer, and eventually published the best ragtime piano pieces of his era. Opinion | Scott Joplin’s Ragtime Is Ambrosia. Here’s Why It Matters. 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z The blues and jazz artist whose growly voice, Panama hat and cultivated air of mystery made him seem like a character out of the ragtime era or the Depression-era Mississippi Delta. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2019 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The standard image of silent-film accompaniment is of a pianist or an organist playing a mix of Tin Pan Alley standards and light classics or perhaps, in the case of slapstick comedy, ragtime. Alloy Orchestra shakes up the sound of silent films 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z “He only shouted ragtime songs and then told some Jesus stories. Strange as a steak in a shrimp catch, but good stories.” “God’s Caravan” 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Her fetish for vinyl records ranged from early ragtime blues to rare and obscure rock en español. L.A. Affairs: I was into her. But she was into playing games. 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z His father was a publishing executive who often played ragtime piano at home. Bob Wilber, musician who kept the sound of early jazz alive, dies at 91 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Performances can include jazz, ragtime, folk, classical or — as happened when a group of visiting Fulbright scholars stumbled in — the Ukrainian national song. Their music was ready to spill out. All they needed was a piano. 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z It includes the home of the ragtime composer Scott Joplin and the national headquarters for the March on Washington in 1965. A Gay Theater and James Baldwin’s N.Y. Apartment May Get Landmark Protection 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Everything about Sushi Bar is theatrical: the old-timey Japanese ragtime music playing softly in the background through dinner; the bar’s mood lighting, carefully calibrated to showcase the chefs’ knifework. Review: In Encino, Sushi Bar serves up 17 courses with a side of showmanship 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z No recordings of his pioneering, improvisational music — a heady mix of blues, ragtime and gospel — are even said to exist. Review: Impressionistic jazz bio ‘Bolden’s’ violence undercuts the music 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z A New Orleans trumpet player in the early 20th century, Bolden was known for an improvisational style that incorporated ragtime, blues and gospel, which evolved into what we now call jazz. The long journey to bring jazz great Buddy Bolden's life to screen comes to fruition 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z And she could be, I mean, the joke was she could be writing like ragtime electronica. Now that ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ has ended, its co-creators explain the series finale 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z The piano player conveys the rambunctious energy of ragtime, the sound toward which all the others begin to bend. Labor strikes, racial violence, class divides: 'Ragtime' in Pasadena feels ripped from today's headlines 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z As a consular official wrote on Adolph’s passport application: “The American negro on the European stage, as a ragtime entertainer, appears to be an established American institution.” Perspective | Hello, Sadie! Meet the mystery chorus girl who became a star and moved to D.C. 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z A member of the Coeur d’Alene tribe in the Pacific Northwest, Bailey began signing ragtime in the 1920s and developed a swing style that fused traditional Native American vocals with jazz. PBS films tackles Native American links to rock, blues, jazz 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z A. I started off with one of my great loves, which is ragtime. The Last of the Old-School Cabaret Artists 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z “I want to thank everyone for being here because it was the passenger rails that help spread ragtime music to fans all across the country,” said Carol Collins-Miles, with the Scott Joplin Support Group. Texarkana event celebrates railroads, ragtime music 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z Composer Flaherty explains ragtime’s structure this way: Steady, marching notes played by the left hand represent the order of the piece, while the right hand uses syncopated rhythms to go against the order. Labor strikes, racial violence, class divides: 'Ragtime' in Pasadena feels ripped from today's headlines 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Flashy and quick-fingered, he was as adept on flamenco standards such as “Malagueña” as on the ragtime classic “Twelfth Street Rag,” applying a western twang to songs that ranged far outside the country canon. Roy Clark, country star who hosted ‘Hee Haw’ variety show, dies at 85 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z “No ragtime group of liberal activists or lawyers from D.C. will be allowed to steal this election from the voters in this great state,” he said at a press conference announcing the suit. The Recounts in Florida and Georgia Bring a Touch of Fairness to a Dysfunctional Election Day 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z He plays me the first few bars of something caught between ragtime and barrelhouse, full of stride piano left-hand chords, his long fingers flicking this way and that. When Jay Rayner met Jeff Goldblum 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z He eventually won posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his musical compositions so key to the founding of ragtime as a form of music. Texarkana event celebrates railroads, ragtime music 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z The baby’s father, a brilliant ragtime piano player, becomes a regular visitor too. Labor strikes, racial violence, class divides: 'Ragtime' in Pasadena feels ripped from today's headlines 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z But he also went far and wide with his musical choices, scoring his works not only with symphonies and concertos but ragtime, tango, barbershop quartet and even elevator music. Paul Taylor, giant of modern dance, dead at 88 in New York 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z The foot-tapping swing of ragtime was soon flowing from the chapel to the cemetery outside. The Forgotten Entertainer Rag 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Back in the early days of jazz, dancers cut a rug to the ragtime ditty “The Shakespearean Rag.” Many shows in citywide Seattle Celebrates Shakespeare festival mix music and the Bard 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Once inside the Rescue Mission, he ate chicken Parmesan while a man played ragtime on the piano. Las Vegas homeless community on edge with a killer on the loose 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Tying the story together is the metaphor of ragtime music. Labor strikes, racial violence, class divides: 'Ragtime' in Pasadena feels ripped from today's headlines 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z On this date in 1913, the University of Arizona unconditionally prohibited ragtime dancing and said all social functions must end by 11:30 p.m. Today in Arizona History 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z And ragtime experienced an unlikely revival in the 1970s after the Academy Award-winning movie “The Sting” featured his music prominently and a version of his song “The Entertainer” reached No. 3 on the Billboard chart. The Forgotten Entertainer Rag 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z An army band is playing on the far side of the field, the jaunty strains of ragtime float through the dead heat of the morning. Ex-footballer George Weah faces his toughest challenge 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z A trailer for the record features a chopped-up sound collage of ragtime piano, distorted digital fuzz, oscillating synths and White's trademark blues riffs. Who is releasing new music in 2018? 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Turning the liturgy into a ragtime piece, Mr Lehrer tells Catholics they can “do whatever steps you want if you have cleared them with the Pontiff”. Who can fill the role of Tom Lehrer today? 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z The sweeping tide of song pays tribute to ragtime composer Scott Joplin, as well as Sousa marches, parlor songs, Yiddish melodies and Broadway pizazz. Review: ‘Ragtime’ at 5th Avenue still resonates today 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z She described how she became smitten by ragtime. The Forgotten Entertainer Rag 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Here, he taps the blues, gospel, folk, ragtime, chamber and symphonic music, referencing at various points Aaron Copland, Gustav Mahler, Dmitri Shostakovich, Alban Berg and film composers. Randy Newman weighs in on Putin, science vs. religion and more in new 'Dark Matter' album 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z In this lively book, Alan Chandler, a Seattle music scholar, receives an intriguing package from a friend: previously undiscovered compositions by the ragtime pioneer Scott Joplin. 3 crime novels to slip into your reading schedule 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z He was, after all, known for “Maple Leaf Rag,” the first ragtime hit. New York Today: Remembering Scott Joplin 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Well before the 1973 motion picture “The Sting” summoned widespread attention to Joplin’s musical ragtime genius, the late George Beasley Sr. started educating people about Joplin’s creative energy as early as 1956. Texarkana regional music center gives first lifetime award 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Gill, 65, had driven in from Pittsburgh to attend the annual springtime concert honoring Joplin, the king of ragtime, at the cemetery that afternoon. The Forgotten Entertainer Rag 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z An incongruously upbeat song plays loudly along this battered block all day every day: Scott Joplin’s ragtime classic, “The Entertainer.” Where ‘Depression and Rage’ Intersect in Chicago 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z His father, who had been a ragtime pianist, had a large farm and a dry goods business. Pianist, singer and 'William Faulkner of jazz' Mose Allison dead at 89 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Returning from Paris, Jefferson sings “What’d I Miss?” over boogie-woogie piano with riffs on other Dixieland jazz sounds, including stride and ragtime. Why Hamilton is making musical history 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Guitarist Nelson Carson of Ashdown and Texarkana provides a history lesson of black music with the ragtime “Roaring Twenties Rag” and “Old Time March.” Man releases Arkansas blues album 40 years later 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z “I don’t remember the first time I heard ragtime, but it has always been part of my life. What drew me to it was its happiness.” The Forgotten Entertainer Rag 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Numerous other groups will be on hand, playing blends of blues, folk, rock, ragtime, country and more. Porcupine Mountains festival showcases many musical styles 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z It was a time when jazz and ragtime flew off the keys, and Steinway was producing more than 6,000 pianos a year, triple what it makes today. Steinway’s Grand Ambitions for Its Pianos in China 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z But over the next decade, her music grew more idiosyncratic, with traces of ragtime and bluegrass and lyrics dense with allusions to history and literature. Is Joanna Newsom a serious artist or a pop star? (Get this: She's both) 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z Musical selections range from Mozart to bluegrass to ragtime, and children are active participants as the story unfolds. Religion events from around the Washington area 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z But he died a decade later at the age of 49, destitute in an asylum on Wards Island as ragtime was fading in popularity. The Forgotten Entertainer Rag 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Musical selections range from Mozart to bluegrass to ragtime, with children as active participants. Religion events from around the Washington area 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z On this date in 1913, the University of Arizona prohibited ragtime dancing and said all social functions must end by 11:30 p.m. Today in Arizona History 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z He entered the country through Ellis Island and lived with his family in a Lower East Side tenement, where he became fascinated by ragtime and saloon music. These Iconic Figures of American History Were All Immigrants 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Another jazz-world texture –specifically, what Riley describes as the “gently swinging, kind of optimistic” feel of ragtime – also figures in his string quartet works, as well as his latter-day piano improvisations. Terry Riley: 'I haven’t felt nailed down to anything' 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Joplin was forgotten, and ragtime became an obscurity of Americana. The Forgotten Entertainer Rag 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Cobain’s album will function as the soundtrack album to the recent documentary Cobain: Montage of Heck, and is said to range “from thrash to ragtime and everything in between” – including, alarmingly, “a sketch comedy routine”. Is it OK to release ‘new’ music after an artist’s death? 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z He also founded the New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble, which earned a Grammy award for best chamber music performance in 1973 for the album Joplin: The Red Back Book, and helped spur a ragtime revival. Gunther Schuller, Pulitzer-winning jazz and classical musician, dies aged 89 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z Ali Kafka, a ragtime guitarist up from New Orleans, tapped along in her combat boots. With This Many Buskers in Asheville, a Discordant Note Was Inevitable 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z Butler Parks Hot SerenadersThe local combo plays 1930s vintage swing, hot jazz, Dixieland and ragtime. 9-11 p.m. Going Out Guide for the District of Columbia, April 23-29, 2015 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z This June, the theater hosts its 40th annual ragtime music festival, the longest-running event of its kind. A Hidden Cinema Treasure In Los Angeles: The Old Town Music Hall 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z According to Philip Furia’s biography, “Irving Berlin: A Life in Song,” he made ragtime “seem ingratiating, not threatening.” The Cabaret Beat 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z His piano playing was strong and full of improvised runs, some resembling ragtime. D’Angelo Reborn 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York is webcasting concerts four times this weekend featuring top musicians performing New Orleans and Brazilian ragtime. New Orleans And Brazilian Ragtime Concerts To Be Webcast This Weekend 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z When we think of that war today, we imagine an age of Edwardian sensibilities, ragtime music and people with little connection to our modern world. The Hidden Cities of World War I 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Groups played popular music of the day, like ragtime, waltzes and danceable marches. With a Little Bit of Pluck, a Mandolin Orchestra Revives 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z "After the Civil War they all melded into something which was utterly American - just as jazz and ragtime and musical theatre would be later. " Savion Glover's tap-dancing mission 2014-04-03T23:49:18Z It's not just the imperial ambitions and the strategic balances - this was a world where politicians still wore frock coats and the seditious syncopations of ragtime were an affront to Christian decency. Aiming to change the outcome of WWI 2013-11-11T01:37:15Z From the rear came the strains of ragtime music. The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer 2012-03-26T02:00:32.910Z Even from where he stood the sound of ragtime music came to his ears from a gorgeous saloon across its narrow way. The Homesteader A Novel 2012-03-26T02:00:30.703Z My heart beat in ragtime rhythm, and my pulse was out of the running. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z St. Louis music burst onto the national scene at the time of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, with the popularity of St. Louis resident Scott Joplin's ragtime compositions. U.S. blues museum planned for St. Louis riverfront 2012-02-13T00:00:43Z At first, he tried to create a machine that would peck out Scott Joplin’s ragtime piano piece “The Entertainer” in rudimentary percussion, but space constraints made it impossible. Brooklyn?s Joseph Herscher and His Rube Goldberg Machines 2012-01-06T20:08:34Z What a mockery the brilliance was, and the gay ragtime melody in the musicians' gallery next door! Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z Women in the lifeboats, men upon the wreck, Take heart to hear the ragtime lilting down the deck. The Guards Came Through and Other Poems 2011-11-22T03:00:11.683Z "Do you know this one?" he asked, and started whistling a new ragtime through his teeth. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z Its the one your father gave me an its been runnin in ragtime ever since I got it. No title 2011-09-30T02:00:20.710Z Dye said the "Notre Dame Victory March" derives from "ragtime rhythm" or syncopation. The band plays on: Notre Dame, Michigan fight songs, record crowd stir rivalry 2011-09-08T17:01:27Z I set myself to distract the Seraph's mind, and gave him a tireless succession of waltzes and ragtimes till eight o'clock. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z There's nothing more that you can do, and nothing you can mend, Only keep the ragtime playing to the end. The Guards Came Through and Other Poems 2011-11-22T03:00:11.683Z It's true that Harry Spearman is rather unmanageable when he gets one alone in a car after several hours of champagne and ragtime, but—oh, well, I guess I can take care of myself. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z She would sing; and her fresh young voice broke forth into ragtime song. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z He seemed to be playing some small, fine, invisible flute as he gave them old-fashioned airs, ragtime tunes, songs from the comic operas, and miscellaneous melodies he had heard his sisters singing. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z There were men who could handle crowds, keep an evening's entertainment going, play good ragtime, make good coffee, and produce cigarettes and matches out of thin air. Our Army at the Front 2011-06-26T02:00:07.933Z The great soloists: ragtime, folksong, blues, jazz, swing, and the great bands: New Orleans, swing, dixieland. The Negro in the United States; a selected bibliography. Compiled by Dorothy B. Porter 2011-05-05T02:00:18.267Z A girl was playing ragtime at a piano on a platform. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z She had tried to induce her cousin to join her, but that young lady was absorbed in running over a new ragtime song. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z The string band, screened off behind a decorative display of palms and ferns, was playing the latest and most popular ragtime. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z Let those lovers of musical comedy, ragtime, and sentimental ballads who sneer at fugue, counterpoint, form, and technique hear this, and wonder. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z It uses melodies by the ragtime genius Scott Joplin. City Room: Dance of the Socialites 2011-02-24T15:25:21Z There was a whirring sound, succeeded, not by low seductive strains, but by a sudden din of ragtime which crashed upon our ears as the decorations had upon our eyes. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z But it never occurred to me that my soft greens and browns and Beethoven harmonies got on her nerves just exactly as her pinks and purples and ragtime got on mine. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z In addition to all this, he also finds time to compose ragtime piano music. Wordplay: Numberplay: The Puzzle Gourmet 2010-10-18T15:21:00Z The opera company presents Scott Joplin's "Treemonisha," an intersection of classical opera form and ragtime in a new production of a rarely performed American treasure. Concerts 2010-03-05T05:00:00Z Program includes O'Connor's works based on the Paganini caprices and various bluegrass and ragtime works. Concerts 2010-02-19T05:00:00Z In a corner left by the sweep of the stairs a quartet of unkempt musicians in seamy tunics of beer-stained scarlet frogged with debilitated braid were grinding out ragtime. Sinister Street, vol. 2 "But, ragtime!" moaned Helen, "when he's always hated it so!" The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z Those were the days when the people of this land and many others were hard at work upon commercial pursuits and when for amusement the world and his wife danced tango to ragtime music. The Career of Leonard Wood Of course, things have changed in Sweden, too; and American ragtime, always contagious, has now infected all Europe. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists Cora, to show her independence of spirit, sat down and began to play ragtime, but neither of her auditors noticed the difference. Come Out of the Kitchen! A Romance Goldie's face softened as if a choir invisible was singing her ragtime from above her skylight. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole But he liked the ragtime, too, all right. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z Thereafter, the dance music, operettas, vaudeville songs, and ragtime were played. The Adventures of the U-202 An Actual Narrative I hear my daughters practicing, and now and then they seem to be putting a dash of ragtime into Bach. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists And almost on the site of a pagan temple stands the Y.M.C.A. tent where a twentieth century priestess from Chicago hands out cigarettes and plays ragtime. A "Y Girl in France Letters of Katherine Shortall They sang tawdry "popular" songs for the most part, breaking into a ribald ragtime ditty, followed by a sickly sentimental ballad. Jimmy Kirkland and the Plot for a Pennant Also he whispers that he'd use chloroform, only Rusty's heart's too bad, and if he wants ragtime to deal it out. Side-stepping with Shorty He had read "Mrs. Henry Wood's" great book, but he searched his memory in vain for a clue to the propriety of ragtime as a preface to the story. A Canadian Bankclerk "She is a nuisance," said the Sister; "the men make more noise afterwards because they set her hymns to ragtime." A Diary Without Dates She plays ragtime "to beat the band," which is a good accomplishment over here. A "Y Girl in France Letters of Katherine Shortall She goes to the theatre a lot, and she had all the latest comic opera songs, like those of Anna Held and Marie Cahill, and she can play ragtime out of sight. The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories They like ragtime, jazz and music with a swing to it. How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types A string band was playing a ragtime tune when they entered the restaurant. The Phantom Lover While perhaps to generalise these delights, a trundled organ tossed a ragtime. The Paliser case Yes, sir," answered his dragoman, "for it is 'The Messiah' in ragtime. Another Sheaf As he came back he shrewdly studied the face of the young policeman who was quietly listening to the furious fusillade of the ragtime musicians. Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure Their only conception of a "good time" is ragtime. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America When the fun was at its height, and everybody seemed fully occupied with ragtimes, two pairs of watchful eyes noticed Mrs. Vernon slip quietly away in the direction of her tent. The Madcap of the School "Sounds like a dead march done in ragtime," suggested Nan, whose ear was said to be faulty. Otherwise Phyllis With a crash an alcove belched music, and in a moment all the winking length of the gallery was throbbing with ragtime. Anthony Lyveden He taught society to play ragtime and to cakewalk. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession The gramophone which had been silent for so long was playing, playing ragtime loud and harsh. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands Remember, we live in a changeable, hustling, ragtime age. A Pirate of Parts He wanted the lamp-lit security of his room, with the Turk and the Gang in red sweaters, singing ragtime; with the Frazer affair a bad dream that was forgotten. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Presently they burst into a religious song with as much gusto as they had sung the ragtime. The Search He wrote for Miss Irwin the first ragtime song, "Syncopated Sandy." The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession The ragtime had a cracked, heart-broken rhythm as though it were a one-step of despair. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands The child who has heard good music from infancy is not likely to be attracted by popular ragtime. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes She made coffee in a fantastic percolator, and played Débussy and ragtime. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life A musically inclined private was playing ragtime on the piano, and another was trying to accompany him on the banjo. The Search It was used to teach people to play ragtime. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession "No," he said, "we have a gramophone with fox-trots, ragtimes, Beethoven and Melba, and the children nearly always choose the best records." A Dominie in Doubt But this means that the movement carries in itself the energy to spread farther and farther, and to fill the daily life with increased longing for the ragtime. Psychology and Social Sanity She didn't dream that this wilderness man would choose any other kind of music than ragtime. The Snowshoe Trail Two soldiers with their girls were eating 219 ice cream at the little tables, and around the piano a group of officers and their wives was gathered singing ragtime. The Search Thus Ned Wayburn made his first professional appearance at Hopkins' Theatre, State Street, Chicago, being billed as "Chicago's Leading Amateur"—a singing and dancing "black-faced" comedian, doing a "ragtime piano" specialty, and dancing act. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession O'Neill told me that his Lancashire kiddies have tired of ragtime, and are now playing classical music only. A Dominie in Doubt The rhythm changed in an instant, and through the squeakiness of shattered pipes came a swirl of fake-oriental ragtime that resounded like mocking laughter in the old vaults and arches. One Man's Initiation—1917 A string band of just sufficient strength gave forth a ragtime effort; a supreme being hovered near to ensure that the '65 brandy was all it should be. No Man's Land Life here hammers in the blood with something of the insistence of ragtime. Nights in London The "piano specialty," which he originated, started the "ragtime" craze. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession Her band had been playing ragtime, but it suddenly stopped and broke into "Good-by, Good Luck, God Bless You," to the troop-ship bound for France. The U-boat hunters Either she would shock that elegant gentleman's taste with the ugliest of ragtime, or she would inflict him with a succession of the operatic selections she had taken up with Madame Valentini. Elsie Marley, Honey Some lilting ragtime ditty that's rollicking and gay will gain the public favor and hold it—for a day. Rippling Rhymes Or is it that the ragtime kings have gone to the antiquities of the Orient for their melodies? Nights in London It seemed as though he must know everything there was, and the music would turn from riotous ragtime to the most tender chords, capable of drawing tears from those eyes so unused to weeping. Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast We heard a native "ragtime" band, playing tom-tomic strains—the lyric style of dinner-gong music that tears holes in the air. A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel The orchestra struck up some jubilant ragtime that set the heart dancing and the heels tapping in tune. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance Some lilting ragtime ditty that's rollicking and gay will gain the public favor and hold it—for a day. Rippling Rhymes At least, his gestures were those of a ragtime comedian, and the tune bore some faint resemblance. Nights in London Gabe had a big whistle, and used to amuse himself as he walked to and from home in trying to get the airs from the popular ragtime songs of the day. Fred Fenton on the Crew or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School The roll was the ragtime tune of "Bon-Bon Buddy—My Chocolate Drop." The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life In order to hold interest, there were English syncopated songs between the acts—ragtime is a new word, but not a new thing. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians Some of those men that were joining in the rollicking ragtime tune were dying men. The Great War As I Saw It We were tired of halls and revues; the theatres had started work; there was nothing left but to sit in beer-cellars and listen to dreary bands playing ragtimes and bilious waltzes. Nights in London A funeral march makes them sad, and ragtime so disturbs them that they give but little milk. The Human Side of Animals Somebody sung a ragtime song, and the cabin took up the chorus. The Red Horizon Recently a vaudeville "turn" of Hamlet has been presented, where the gravediggers do their gruesome tasks to ragtime; and on every hand we behold the Lyceum giving way to the McClure Continuous, Lim. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians He whistled a bar or two of ragtime. On Christmas Day In The Evening Marches and songs were also popular, with the "Blue Danube" waltz; and sometimes, when the spirits of my party were at rather a low ebb, we had ragtime pieces, which they especially enjoyed. The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club Then, a tight-ranked mass of humanity, they had formed and were sweeping forward again, stepping out to the beat of the ragtime which was their marching hymn. Then I'll Come Back to You White, so white is the distant moon, Salmon-pink is the furnace glare, And we hum, as we march, a ragtime tune, Khaki boys in the long platoon, Going and going—anywhere. The Red Horizon He sits rapt, especially when I play ragtime, which seems the one thing that touches his holy of holies. The Prairie Wife Both owe their distinction mainly to their work in dialectic verse which, I fear, is too much like the "ragtime" music, considered quite the proper dressing for Negro distinction in the poetic art. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Handy, a negro ragtime composer whose dance tunes are widely known. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Certainly, one who has heard nothing else must be educated down to an enjoyment of ragtime, with its crude rhythms. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music We were sitting in our dug-out at a village the bawl of a donkey from Souchez, when a jew's harp, playing ragtime was heard outside. The Red Horizon He abominates ragtime, and I have rather a weakness for it. The Prairie Wife A boy was clipping the lawn, and the muffled purr of the mower, accompanied by the bit of popular ragtime he was whistling, stole into the room. Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman Long after we were in our beds that night we were kept awake by the sound of ragtime from the tent across the way. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' It is a ragtime chorus whose most memorable line runs, "You never seem to kiss me in the same place twice." Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital Even the majority of civilized beings prefer the modern ragtime or jazz to the exquisite art of the symphony. Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization He may not be able to rise above the plane of ragtime, or he may attain to the sublime plane of “The Dead March in Saul.” The Vitalized School Behind the closed door in the crowded theatre the orchestra suddenly broke into a ragtime. The Second Honeymoon I vision her as dancing—dancing to Handy's ragtime music—all shoulders, neck, and arms, and tulle, and twenty-dollar satin slippers. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Besides, wa'n't he a swell one-stepper, a shark at tennis, and couldn't he sing any ragtime song that she could drum out? On With Torchy As each soldier began to trim his uniform to his own idea of comfort, it was soon, in very reality, a "ragtime" army. "Over There" with the Australians I think ragtime will be good enough for me to-night, instead of a neck and arm circus. Her Own Way A Play in Four Acts He has discovered that though they listen respectfully while he plays his own beloved music, mostly they are happier when he gives them a bit of American ragtime, or a popular song hit. Red Pepper's Patients With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular The composer of an American ragtime song is to have a statue erected to him in New York. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-14 A distant measure of ragtime floated up from the lobby; once, as a heavy team passed down in the street, the chandelier swayed, and little lights flickered among the faintly clicking prisms. The Vehement Flame The ragtime hymns which find a place in many Sunday school exercises need only to be mentioned to be condemned. How to Teach Religion Principles and Methods Neither music nor ragtime, it seemed utterly barbarian in character. The Day of the Beast Their cheerfulness has quite captivated the gayety loving French, who never tire of listening to their laughter and their ragtime songs. Best Short Stories Even when it is only ragtime that pleases you, you are not afraid to own up to it. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers Mr. Mitchel, the Mayor of New York, has forbidden musicians to play the National Anthems of the Allies in ragtime. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 It must have nearly slain the man, for he was a sincere artist, a lover of classical music ... and now compelled to play ragtime and popular melodies for a living. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative He would say that the average American is a mixture of business, ragtime, and sentimentality. The Photoplay A Psychological Study At the casino, after a hard round of tennis, and while waiting for cakes and lemonade to be served, she would hammer ragtime on the piano or sing the latest lyrical offerings of Broadway. A Hoosier Chronicle Perhaps she, too, was beginning to think in ragtime. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl The music that we wish to hear is the "still, sad music of humanity";—that is, taking our theory at its best, and before you come down to sheer 'jazz' and ragtime. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 The gloom-stricken piano player now rattled off some ragtime and the depraved denizens about us got sadly up and danced to it. Somewhere in Red Gap He satisfies his business instinct by getting so much for his nickel, he enjoys his ragtime in the slapstick humor, and gratifies his sentimentality with the preposterous melodramas which fill the program. The Photoplay A Psychological Study Money, comfort, limousines and ragtime are not the requisites of men when heroes are dying. Carry On Letters in War-Time They had turned green, and then faded away, one by one or in hurried groups; and now the very thought of music at meals made them sick, in ragtime. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl She snapped her fingers, swayed her lithe body, and undulated gracefully to the piano, where she brought both hands down on the keys with a crash, and played ragtime with feverish fury for five minutes. Kindred of the Dust They first had appreciated ragtime and surrendered themselves to the compelling qualities of Jazz. Since Cézanne We began to sing the usual songs of the march and I noticed that the American ragtime was more popular among the boys than their own music. A Yankee in the Trenches Our chaps are doing that consciously, willingly, almost without bitterness towards their enemies; for the rest it doesn't matter whether they sing hymns or ragtime. Carry On Letters in War-Time Then, too, I suppose I'll have to choose between Mrs. Wiggs and Emerson, between the Katzenjammers and Shakespeare, and between ragtime and grand opera. Reveries of a Schoolmaster But, frankly, it is a far cry from my clergyman grandfather to my ragtime dancing offspring. The "Goldfish" It has given us a ragtime literature which flouts traditional rhythms and sequences and grammar and logic. Since Cézanne "Manhattan Madness" was really nothing more than St. Vitus's dance set to ragtime. Laugh and Live A former age expressed itself in Gregorian chants; ours, no less sincerely, disguises its feelings in ragtime. Carry On Letters in War-Time A Hungarian orchestra was playing the latest Manhattan ragtime, at the far end of the piazza. The Air Trust Of music—beyond ragtime—she knew as little as he. The House of Mystery An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant Meanwhile, whether the ladies and gentlemen in the restaurants will soon be preferring sentimental waltz-tunes to flippant ragtimes is a question on which I cannot pretend to an opinion. Since Cézanne One musician composes lyrics, another oratorios, another ragtime, and still another symphonies. Analyzing Character It is a kind of elaborate ragtime without any tune to it. Kimono As he walked, striding along with splendid energy, he whistled to himself—no cheap ragtime air, but Handel's Largo, with an appreciation which bespoke musical feeling of no common sort. The Air Trust You beloved girl, I have heard from Jack and my heart is singing a ragtime tune of joy and thanksgiving. The Lady and Sada San A Sequel to the Lady of the Decoration The other two creations are the Cakewalk and ragtime. The Book of American Negro Poetry The spirit of ragtime is not confined to music: graft is the ragtime of business, the spoils system the ragtime of politics, adulteration the ragtime of manufacture. Life's Enthusiasms The timbre, loudness, pitch, of musical tones, is a concern of science; but for this a Beethoven symphony is no better than the latest ragtime air from the music halls. Four-Dimensional Vistas With a quick movement, she tucked her violin under her chin and played a few measures of the worst sort of ragtime, in perfect imitation of a popular performer. The Eyes of the World The morning hate of the German family with ragtime obbligato must be a terrible thing. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917 The "morning hate" of the German family with ragtime obbligato must be a terrible thing! Mr. Punch's History of the Great War There is a kind of music popular with uncritical audiences and with people who know no better, which answers to the name of "ragtime." Life's Enthusiasms "Jack's in town," she informed them placidly, when the ragtime spasm ended. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Out she starts with a piece of rippin' ragtime—you know how loud it plays? Trailin'! It was I who first made ragtime transcriptions of familiar classic selections. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man O. descended to the abode of Old Nic, and charmed him with some Grecian ragtime. Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be There is ragtime science, ragtime literature, ragtime religion. Life's Enthusiasms Just at present our young people are going mad over ragtimes, apparently because syncopated rhythms are new to them. Treatise on Parents and Children But if in his own past experience, what he has been most accustomed to and has most enjoyed is ragtime, his active or working measures of valuation are fixed on the ragtime level. Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education This was ragtime music, then a novelty in New York, and just growing to be a rage, which has not yet subsided. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man At the beginning of the twentieth century, blues along with ragtime, became popular, although not always respectable. The Black Experience in America The spirit of ragtime determines the six best sellers, the most popular policeman, the favorite congressman, the wealthiest corporation, the church which soonest rents its pews. Life's Enthusiasms But there are more dangerous influences than ragtimes waiting for people brought up in ignorance of fine art. Treatise on Parents and Children There is ragtime literature as well as ragtime music for the many. Ponkapog Papers This was the beginning of the ragtime song. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man The stirring tom-tom, if not the ragtime which sets the occidental capering to-day, was common to the Chinese three or four hundred years ago. America, through the spectacles of an Oriental diplomat This smug in-between town, which had exchanged "Money Musk" for phonographs grinding out ragtime, it was neither the heroic old nor the sophisticated new. Main Street If they had learnt what can be done with syncopation from Beethoven's third Leonora overture, they would enjoy the ragtimes all the more; but they would put them in their proper place as amusing vulgarities. Treatise on Parents and Children We also learned from other than newspaper sources that when Libby was waiting to testify, with her mother suffering imprisonment in the same building, the girl was nonchalantly singing ragtime songs in the court-house corridors. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology In spite of the bans which musicians and music teachers have placed upon it, the people still demand and enjoy ragtime. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man It may be due to my ignorance of English, but the song I have just quoted seems to me silly, and I do not think any "ragtime music" could make it worth singing. America, through the spectacles of an Oriental diplomat Bertram says that at home Cyril hasn't played a dirge since his engagement; but I notice that up here—where Marie might be, but isn't—his tunes would never be mistaken for ragtime. Miss Billy's Decision After dinner the guests took their coffee in the music room, where Schemetzkin sat down at the piano to drum ragtime, and give his celebrated imitation of the boardingschool girl's execution of Chopin. The Troll Garden and Selected Stories The evening ended with a cake-walk, for the musical artists had by rare wines been mellowed from their classic reserve into a mood of ragtime abandon. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation By mastering ragtime I gained several things: first of all, I gained the title of professor. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Her portrait caused crowds to assemble, and "That girl who, they say, deals death, that Florozonde!" was to be heard as constantly as ragtime. A Chair on the Boulevard Then, a little unsteadily: "If it's I that set you going like that, old chap, I'll come up and play ragtime every day!" Miss Billy's Decision Kept telling me she wished this was a ragtime wedding. The Beautiful and Damned There were ragtime melodies, and someone had a record of "Marching Through Georgia" that always drew forth applause. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California It is certain that he would not have been so delightful as he was in ragtime. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man The tune Farnol chose for these unfortunate performances was an American ragtime, that repeated the same strain over and over. The Cruise of the Dry Dock Between the acts the orchestra pattered ragtime and inanities from the new comic operas, while the audience in general took some heart. In the Arena Stories of Political Life Slightly more indecent than the Salome dance, a shade less reticent than ragtime, it had driven the tango out of existence. A Man of Means It's a ragtime tune, and something about it hurts us. The Harlequinade An Excursion American musicians, instead of investigating ragtime, attempt to ignore it, or dismiss it with a contemptuous word. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man She talked a lot at dinner, and chaffed Bobbie, and played us ragtime on the piano afterwards, as if she hadn't a care in the world. My Man Jeeves More than that, he could rattle off ragtime untiringly and his nimble fingers could catch up on the piano any tune he heard whistled. The Story of Sugar We are licking our cub into shape, George, and the best of it is that, when he learns to dance ragtime to the organ, he isn't going to stop being a bear. The Call of the Cumberlands It is pouring rain outside, and my overcoat is thin; but I must go out and pace the streets and wait until a filthy Dutchman gets through scraping ragtime on a 'cello. The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man In the evening we heard them in the billiard-room below lifting their voices in the lays of our college muse, and waking to ecstasy the living piano in the strains of our national ragtime. Familiar Spanish Travels And as a people deficient in musical art delights in ragtime tunes, so a people deficient in the true art of tasting and smelling delights in ragtime odours and ragtime tastes. Great Possessions The faded soprano, who had in better days sung before a King, was wearying as she reeled out ragtime with a strong Neapolitan accent. The Call of the Cumberlands The hotel orchestra, playing ragtime in deafening concord, made Lulu's wedding march. Miss Lulu Bett I went to the piano and played the most intricate ragtime piece I knew. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man A phonograph grinds out the ancient query "Who Paid the Rent for Mrs. Rip Van Winkle?" or some other ragtime ditty. Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun There was an old square piano out there and some young man was banging ragtime on it, while half a dozen others leaned over it and roared out songs in several different keys at once. The Camp Fire Girls Go Motoring Or, Along the Road That Leads the Way Of American cocktails he had a fair working knowledge, and he appreciated ragtime. Uneasy Money "Don't you like ragtime?" he put it to her directly. Miss Lulu Bett I gloated over the immense amount of material I had to work with, not only modern ragtime, but also the old slave songs—material which no one had yet touched. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man From the piano, where Eddie Mason was the center of a group of girls, came much noise of ragtime music and slangtime song. The Little Lady of the Big House "Hulas and hulas would pucker up their lips, He fell for their ball-bearing hips For they were pips …" His chunky body swayed to the ragtime. Three Soldiers The first time she played ragtime but I told her I hate that stuff. Amanda — a Daughter of the Mennonites "Give me ragtime," he said now, with the effect of bursting out of somewhere. Miss Lulu Bett When the guests arose, I struck up my ragtime transcription of Mendelssohn's "Wedding March," playing it with terrific chromatic octave runs in the bass. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man "No ragtime, I s'pose?" he said, after a particularly depressing fugue resounded its last echoes. Vicky Van There was a distinct predilection in favour of "ragtime" and I must say I liked to hear that music at frequent intervals. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Even when she played a ragtime tune she would repeat the same notes slowly and get a chord out of them that went straight to the heart. Tales of the Road The elements here given are those that apply to ragtime as well as to nearly every other sort of popular song. Writing for Vaudeville I obtained a little respite when the girlish-looking youth and one or two of the ladies sang several songs, but after each of these it was "back to ragtime." The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man The dancing had ceased and the two "artists" were entertaining the select audience with some choice bits of ragtime. The Ear in the Wall Just now Horatio was playing ragtime with amazing rapidity, stamping his foot and turning his head to smirk at the others. Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man He worships me because I'm the only man in the world who can play better ragtime than he can. Flappers and Philosophers Then she swaggered into Johnsy's room with her drawing board, whistling ragtime. The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million He seated himself at the piano, and, taking the theme of my ragtime, played it through first in straight chords; then varied and developed it through every known musical form. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Someone is quoted as saying that "ragtime is the true American music." Essays Before a Sonata He had hammered ragtime on the piano like the best ordinary man in the University. Who Cares? a story of adolescence The negroes had brought ashore their musical instruments, and the sound of weird ragtime was drifting softly over on the warm breath of the night. Flappers and Philosophers Some of them touched the piano with a loving touch and said, "Ye gods, a piano again!" and played old melodies or merry ragtime. Now It Can Be Told I had been turning classic music into ragtime, a comparatively easy task; and this man had taken ragtime and made it classic. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man To examine ragtime rhythms and the syncopations of Schumann or of Brahms seems to the writer to show how much alike they are not. Essays Before a Sonata The music had no more effect upon the closely filled room than a hackneyed ragtime. Who Cares? a story of adolescence Before he was thirteen he was picking up a living teasing ragtime out of a battered violin in little caf�s round Nashville. Flappers and Philosophers "All the latest ragtime," said one of them with a grin. Now It Can Be Told The effect was surprising, perhaps even to the host; the ragtime music came very near spoiling the party so far as eating the dinner was concerned. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Nor were the melodies that floated down from the upper floor akin to funeral marches; they were perilously near to being allied to "ragtime." Miss Billy He had all the new ragtime songs and dances, which he rendered to his own accompaniment on an old battered banjo. The Major They sing "Home, Sweet Home" in ragtime; they carry their lares et penates in a bandbox; their vine is entwined about a picture hat; a rubber plant is their fig tree. The Four Million Fox-trots and ragtime and paint and powder and glare and half-drunken young men, and women with red lips you can get them in plenty. Saint's Progress At a word from the host I struck up one of my liveliest ragtime pieces. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man No strident orchestra forces the diner to bolt beef in ragtime. Something New Denis did not dance, but when ragtime came squirting out of the pianola in gushes of treacle and hot perfume, in jets of Bengal light, then things began to dance inside him. Crome Yellow It's an old trick to have classical music on the rack and ragtime in your soul. Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West From the street outside came the sound of some one making a cheery, but evidently a somewhat inebriated, attempt to whistle some ragtime air. The White Moll He who develops his musical tastes from ragtime to the classics finds joys he knew not of, but is offended and disgusted whenever he visits friends, attends a movie or a theater. The Foundations of Personality The lilt of the train's rattle changed to a gay ragtime. Something New In a thousand crowded places, They sit to smile and talk, or rise to ragtime, And, for their pleasures, agree or disagree. The House of Dust; a symphony She sang "Dixie," of course, and the "Old Folks at Home"; then a ragtime medley, with the chorus showing rows of white teeth and clogging with all their short legs. The Street of Seven Stars As a matter of fact they were merely ragtime melodies, with a lilt to them that caught the Viennese fancy, accustomed to German sentimental ditties and the artificial forms of grand opera. The Street of Seven Stars |
| 随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。