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	Ragtime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ragtime is a dance form written in 2/4 or 4/4 time, and utilizing a walking bass, that is, the bass note played legato on the 1-3 beats with a staccato chord played on the 2-4 beats.
		Ragtime was one of the main influences on the early development of jazz (along with the blues).
		Jazz largely surpassed ragtime in mainstream popularity in the early 1920s, although ragtime compositions continue to be written up to the present, and periodic revivals of popular interest in ragtime occurred in the 1950s and the 1970s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ragtime (1626 words)

	Marcus Roberts --The Joy Of Joplin
		But the very fact that ragtime was first played on the piano means that it was a city music, not rural Negro tunes performed on the banjo or the guitar by folk musicians who plucked and shouted their repertoires.
		Since a number of the original ragtime pieces were premiered in red light districts, and since the music was danced to in the steps of the cakewalk, it is understandable why joy was the emphasis.
		Ragtime was far and away the gayest, most exciting, most infectiously lilting music ever heard, and its very name was a "natural." America's own music had come, as native as pumpkin pie and baseball, and within a year it seemed as if it had always been here.
	www.sonyclassical.com /releases/60554/liner.html (1604 words)

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		One of the key influences on jazz was blues, a rural folk art that changed as fl musicians migrated to the cities in the late 19th century.
		Scott Joplin, who played ragtime piano in a brothel while writing an opera, shows the different influences at work in the period.
		As previously noted, later styles of jazz, such as modal jazz abandoned the strict notion of a chord progression, allowing the individual musicians to improvise more freely within the context of a given scale or mode.
	www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/j/ja/jazz.html (1465 words)

	Lesson 67 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ragtime, blues, and jazz are styles created mainly by African Americans who blended elements of African music with popular and traditional American music.
		Ragtime is a type of dance music for piano with highly syncopated rhythms.
		Scott Joplin, the "king of ragtime," was the first African-American composer to gain prominence.
	www.wwnorton.com /college/music/enj9_lessons/Part_8/lesson67.htm (481 words)

	'Perfessor' Bill's Guide To Ragtime Composition
		However, since ragtime piano compositions do fall within a classification that can be well defined to a great extent, many of the guidelines here should help you create a piece that falls within that classification and can be truly called a piano rag.
		In ragtime piano, improvisation or variation is encouraged and embraced by composers and players, since it exploits the possibilities of the genre and allows each performer to give individual identity to their performance.
		Ragtime itself is an improvised conglomeration of several musical heritages, ranging from widely accepted classical conventions and the structure of marches and polkas to the rough-hewn yet rhythmically complex songs passed down through fl heritage.
	www.perfessorbill.com /ragtime12.shtml (7665 words)

	NewMusicBox
		Within the standardized twelve-bar blues progression, syncopation and a flexible approach to rhythm and meter are used while sung melodies followed the rhythm of the text in a speech-like manner.
		The word ragtime is derived from the expression "ragged-time" referring to the contrast between the rhythmically fixed bass line and the syncopated melody.
		The earliest known jazz ensemble, led by Charles "Buddy" Bolden in New Orleans from the 1890s until his incarceration in an insane asylum in 1907, established the instrumentation that was the model for most early jazz groups: three melody instruments (trumpet or cornet, clarinet, and trombone) supported by a rhythm section (guitar, bass, and drums).
	www.newmusicbox.org /page.nmbx?id=11tp02 (2117 words)

	Ragtime \| Stride \| Swing \| Novelty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Attempts to teach him to read music had very limited success because something in almost every piece he was assigned to learn reminded him of a chord progression that would fit in one popular song or another, whereupon practice would cease while he explored the possibility of a proper arrangement.
		Although he has always had one tune or another running through his mind, many of them original, he only began writing music when the acquisition of a computer and software, combined with retirement from an engineering career, allowed him to overcome the dual disadvantages of poor draftsmanship and shortage of free time.
		Ragtime has long been a prime interest, and about 1992 he began to experiment with some "raggedy" ideas, resulting in his first rag, "Crazylegs".
	members.aol.com /midimusic/mcclellanbio.html (300 words)

	HARMONY FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Subordinate harmony is the hierarchical tonality or tonal harmony well known today, while coordinate harmony is the older Medieval and Renaissance ''tonalitÃ© ancienne'', "the term is meant to signify that sonorities are linked one after the other without giving rise to the impression of a goal-directed development.
		A first chord forms a "progression" with a second chord, and a second with a third.
		But the earlier chord progression is independent of the later one and vice versa." Coordinate harmony follows direct (adjacent) relationships rather than indirect as in subordinate.
	www.whereintheworldisbush.com /harmony (494 words)

	American Sheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It also shows the progress made in the evolutionary process there is less evidence of the march and traditional cakewalk rhythm, into the rhythm and character of a very early rag, much more than the characteristic cakewalk rhythms used in the Mississippi Rag, which is considered, historically, a very important piece.
		Ragtime used the strict form of the march and two of the characteristics of the quadrille - the adaptation of widely miscellaneous popular folk song material, and a great range of rhythmic and melodic flexibility.
		It also shows the progress made in the evolutionary process where there is less evidence of the march and traditional cakewalk rhythm, into the rhythms and character of a very early rag, much more than the characteristic cakewalk rhythms used in the Mississippi Rag, which is considered, historically, a very important piece.
	www.basinstreet.com /BandPrograms.html (19429 words)

	Voice Leading
		A chord progression is a group of vertically-placed, simultaneously-played melodies.
		Although the linear aspects of the progression become less apparent, the concept of watching and listening for the direction of individual voices in a chord progression is important in all musicmaking!
		Ragtime and stride piano left-hand voicings often are defined, as notated above, with octaves on the root on beat one, on the fifth on beat 3, with the same voicing of the chord on beats 2 and 4.
	hum.lss.wisc.edu /jazz/voice.leading.html (691 words)

	Free guitar lesson - Ragtime pickin' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		He certainly didn't come up with the progression or even the approach; this is kind of the 'default' picking progression for hundreds of other tunes and only the details vary for each.
		The chord progression uses a lot of 'majorized' minors, in other words the related chords that are normally minor have been changed to major.
		Apart form the vi which comes up twice as a little passing chord, and the one diminished, all the rest are major, and most of them are dominant sevenths.
	www.guitarforbeginners.com /lessons/rag.shtml (918 words)

	Perfessor Bill Edwards - Contemporary Piano Rags/Novelties
		The renewed interest in ragtime that was prompted by the Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis book They All Played Ragtime (1950) in which Eubie provided much valuable information about ragtime and those who created it, may have also renewed Blake's interest in the genre as well.
		Eubie played many pieces for Waldo that were written well after his peak during the decades of ragtime and early jazz, and even after a successful career as a composer for stage shows.
		The rising progression in the B section builds up a good head of steam dynamically, and the variances in syncopation within are well thought out.
	www.perfessorbill.com /pbmidi8.shtml (6950 words)

	Ragtime: The Tortoise and the Hare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The A strain is the tortoise, a "slow drag".
		This strain is played at the same tempo as the A strain, but appears to move much faster, thus the subtitle: "An Audible Illusion in Ragtime".
		The C strain represents the race, and you should hear the mood alternating between the tortoise and the hare.
	rrragtimer.com /tortoise.html (89 words)

	Dear AG
		On one end of the spectrum, ragtime is defined simply as any music where the time is "ragged" or syncopated.
		On the other end of the spectrum, ragtime refers only to the classically structured four-movement compositions created by Scott Joplin and his followers beginning in the 1890s.
		Most guitarists, however, think of ragtime as the fingerpicking style first recorded in the late 1920s and early 1930s by folks like Blind Blake, Blind Willie McTell, and Blind Boy Fuller and carried on today by pickers such as Ton Van Bergeyk and Del Rey.
	www.acousticguitar.com /issues/ag55/dear55.html (591 words)

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		The circle of fifths can be used to create chord progressions by starting with any chord on the circle and moving in either direction using as many or as few consecutive chord roots as you like to produce a new chord sequence.
		For example, in the “B7-E7-A7-D7-G7-C” progression the “B7” is the “V” of the “E7” chord and the “E7” is the “V” of the “A7” chord.
		This circle progression descends an augmented fourth from the “Fmaj7” to the “Bm7sus” chord to break the cycle and end on the “E” (dominant) chord.
	www.angelfire.com /fl4/moneychords/circleprogressions.html (3031 words)

	The Ragtime MIDI Libraries of John Roache - George McClellan, Pianist/Composer
		Born in 1926 into a musical family where almost everyone played some instrument by ear, and singing in harmony was a frequent family entertainment, George McClellan began to learn piano at age six, by ear.
		Retirement from an engineering career in 1991 and the acquisition of a computer and software gave him the time and the means to begin putting on paper the tunes which still manifest themselves to him.
		A super dose of ragtime at the West Coast Ragtime Festival in 1994 did much to focus his attention on this happy, light-hearted music form, He has now copyrighted a dozen rags, all arranged for piano, and a number of pieces in other styles for both piano and small combos.
	www.johnroachemusic.com /geomcc.html (256 words)

	RAGTIME FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Some authorities consider ragtime to be a form of classical_music, though this view is not universally held.
		''Ragtime_Song'' - The vocal form of ragtime, more generic in theme than the coon song.
		Download recording — "The Wagon" ragtime from the Library of Congress' Gordon Collection ; an early ragtime song sung by Ben Harney in Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania on about September 9, 1925
	www.bellabuds.com /index.php/?s=ragtime (1533 words)

	Chord Progressions For Piano Playing & The Riffs & Runs That Flow Out Of Them!
		C Am7 Dm7 G7 It is commonly referred to as the "We want Cantor!" chord progression, because those are the first 4 chords of a famous song by that name.
		SEE each progression and SEE each run and riff and the exact fingering that is used.
		In this little series we're having a look at some popular chord progressions which are used over and over (and over) again in many popular tunes and songs.
	www.chord-progressions.com (948 words)

	jazzhistory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		All of these expressive elements from traditional African culture contributed to the development of the blues and jazz and all are characteristic of modern jazz as well.
		The instrumentalization of ragtime was of great importance for the formulation of the New Orleans style.
		Instrumental ragtime set the model for the instrumentation of New Orleans bands and even the primary function or role of certain instruments such as the trombone.
	i-way.co.uk /~rickpayne/jazzhist.htm (637 words)

	A Ragtime Round Program Notes
		The basic elements of ragtime are: (1) a steady underlying 4/4 beat, (2) syncopation in the melody, and (3) some characteristic (often chromatic) harmonies.
		As to harmonies, the chromatic one used here is the frequent Fdim-D progression (a typical ragtime sound) but the G7-D progression in measure 3 is also definitely non-'classical' and again has a sort of ragtime sound.
		For Section I (in D) the basic progression is D-Fdim-D-G7-D-Fdim-A7-D. In the contrasting Section II in the middle, the harmonic progression is: A-D7-A D-A7-D-G E-Cdim-D Fdim-Cdim-E-B7 E7 A7 As noted above, the A-D7-A and the D-A7-D have again a typical ragtime feel.
	www.rodmer.com /RodMusic/ProgramNotes/RagtimeRoundNotes.html (839 words)

	Ragtime: Elite Syncopations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		He invented "classic" ragtime, which is characterized by some rules.
		The strains are arranged in a specific progression: AABBACCDD.
		See if you can follow that progression in this next work, Elite Syncopations, which I believe is the most representative classic rag ever written.
	rrragtimer.com /elite6.html (90 words)

	Ragtime
		Irving Berlin was a famous composer in this style.
		Download recording — "The Wagon" ragtime from the Library of Congress' Gordon Collection (http://www.loc.gov/folklife/Gordon/sideBbandB4.html); an early ragtime song sung by Ben Harney in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on about September 9, 1925
		This page was last modified 01:04, 5 Apr 2005.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Ragtime (1608 words)

	mary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mary Begins by explaining the I-VI-II-V chord progression that gives the ragtime blues their essential sound and demonstrates it in all five keys in which it is traditionally used.
		Mary then adds seven other tunes that use this progression, a medley of ragtime blues songs and her own tune, "Black Dog Rag".
		The pieces and techniques shown on this video are arranged progressively, so you can see your playing improve as you go along.
	www.maryflower.com /videos.htm (271 words)

	GuitarPeople.com - Lessons
		The elements of Ragtime and Blues combined to form the basis of all jazz music, even to the present time.
		The chord progression needs to be memorized and played in all twelve keys by ear.
		With the piece totally memorized, record first the melody, then the chord progression, and then attempt to play the chords with the melody, and the melody with the chords.
	www.guitarpeople.com /jazz/developing.asp (474 words)

	TFU News 2.1
		Many times in a blues rock progression we can jump between the minor pentatonic scale and the major pentatonic scale, and the Dorian mode sort of straddles the fence between these two allowing us to play modally while still hinting at the major/minor pentatonic switch.
		Most ragtime pieces are in C and the difficulty here comes when you have to play an F chord at the nut, or more specifically the bass F (first fret on the low E string).
		If you have vice-like strength, you may be able to barre the F chord, but a lot of players hook their thumb over to fret the low F, while their fingers hold the chord on the higher strings.
	mail-dog.com /page.html?p=000001XDDtjAot9ccbkAUjuDHaj9FiVGHU (1277 words)

	Fingerpicking Fingerstyle Mandolin Part Vc Further Fingerpicking Patterns Chordal Study 1 with Fingerpicking Pattern 3
		This chordal study follows the same progression as "Ragtime Truckin'" (an original fingerpicking mandolin piece found in our advanced melodies section).
		This progression dates back to the early ragtime blues guitrists such as Rev. Gary Davis and Blind Willie McTell.
		Notes: Be sure to first learn the progression itself with a flatpick...so that you're completely comfortable with the changes.
	www.folkofthewood.com /page5361.htm (251 words)

	CD Baby: THE KNIGHTS: In Progression
		On one side of the tracks is Dick playing his clean and tasteful traditional surf and the other is Jason wailing away with progressive metal to give each song a rebirth that they have never enjoyed before.
		The first thing that grabs you is the decidedly progressive artwork presented on the cover, and the liner notes are a terrific retrospective of this band and what they present on this CD.
		Besides the impressive covers, originals like "Shelbi with an 'i'," written especially for Dick's daughter, is a tropical breeze with beautiful Latin influences in the rhythm section and cool guitar lines to flesh it out with style.
	www.cdbaby.com /knights (1292 words)

	Hamish Davidson's Composition Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This tune is co-written between my brother Lachlan and I. Lachlan came to me with a chord progression one night, and I helped put a melody to it.
		Folk ragtime was popularised by pianists such as Trebor Tichenor and David Thomas Roberts during the ragtime revival of the 1970s.
		Whether on purpose or not, the chord progressions in the rag seem quite mature.
	www.geocities.com /hamo_2000/compose.htm (2248 words)

	FlightofHands.com / Ragtime & Boogie Woogie Piano! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		"ragtime" and "boogie woogie" piano since 1996, and
		Joplin is regarded as the "originator of ragtime" and his compositions are among the best-known syncopated melodies in the
		While "tickling the ivories," he also tickled the hearts of thousands across America.
	www.flightofhands.com (293 words)

	Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar - Ragtime & Gospe l PAL FORMAT by Woody Mann dvds, dvd, tab, tabs, tablature, chords, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In this video he teaches six of the ReverendÕs ragtime and gospel originals note-for-note, just as Davis taught him; detailing and explaining the picking techniques, chord positions and fine points of phrasing.
		This is an in-depth lesson in two of the most exciting styles of acoustic blues guitar as well as a rare look into the music of one of the true original masters of ragtime and gospel music.
		Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar - Ragtime & Gospe l PAL FORMAT by Woody Mann This store built by the folk at HitsQuick, the premium source for legal free mp3 downloads.
	tab.avalonguitar.com /avguitar/Products/953 (440 words)

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