also rag-time, "syncopated, jazzy piano music," 1897, perhaps from rag "dance ball" (1895, American English dialect), or a shortening of ragged, in reference to the syncopated melody. Rag (n.) "ragtime dance tune" is from 1899.
If rag-time was called tempo di raga or rague-temps it might win honor more speedily. ... What the derivation of the word is[,] I have not the faintest idea. The negroes call their clog-dancing "ragging" and the dance a "rag." [Rupert Hughes, Boston "Musical Record," April 1900]
Conceive the futility of trying to reduce the intangible ragness to a strict system of misbegotten grace notes and untimely rests! In attempting to perfect, and simplify, art is destroying the unhampered spirit in which consists the whole beauty of rag-time music. The very essence of rag-time is that it shall lack all art, depending for the spirit to be infused more upon the performer than upon the composer himself. ["Yale Literary Magazine," June, 1899]
Her first "rag-time" was "The Bully," in which she made great sport by bringing a little coloured boy on the stage with her. Miss [May] Irwin says the way to learn to sing "rag-time" is to catch a negro and study him. [Lewis C. Strang, "Famous Actresses of the Day in America," Boston, 1899]
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1. The ragtime had a cracked, heartbroken rhythm as though it were a one - step of despair.
爵士乐曲发出破碎 、 伤心的节奏,倒象是绝望的独步舞曲.
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2. The most popular music back then was called ragtime.
那时最流行的音乐叫拉格泰姆音乐.
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3. African - American piano player Scott Joplin wrote many ragtime songs.
非裔美国钢琴家ScottJoplin写了许多拉格泰姆歌曲.
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4. Ragtime is a kind of music played by a solo pianist.
散拍音乐是一种钢琴独奏的音乐形式.
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5. This song combines musical elements from both Ragtime and march.
