Ragtime

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History Of Jazz

Ragtime

1890-1930

Ragtime is said to have been started around 1895 with the BenHarney published the first Ragtime song called You've Been A Good Old Wagon. A year or so later Ben Harney brought Ragtime music, and it's popularity, to New York City. Four years after Ben Harney made the first Ragtime song, Scott Joplin made a rag of his own entitled Original Rags. Scott Joplin made many other famous Ragtimes. Some of the ragtime made was made with a piano, but some was made with other instruments. Ragtime had a different style of sound. There was a steady beat of a march, and then a syncopated melody, this made radtime music hard to play. Ragtime as always written down before being played. Many big Ragtime preformers lived very we'll on just the tips they got from playing in bars. Ragtime died out in popularity around 1930, but was still played. Ragtime was a very ditincitive style of Jazz, with it's march like qualitys, and is my personal favorite style of Jazz

History Of Scott Joplin, The Rag-Time King

Scott Joplin was born in Novemeber of 1867. Joplin was brought up in a musical household, in the north east of Texas. When Joplin was young, he was able to use the piano at on of the houses his mother worked at. Later when Joplin was twelve, he impressed a local German Piano teacher so much, he gave him free lessons. He taught Scott the Theory of music. Later on in life, when his teacher fell into debt, Jopling helped him out. Joplins first sign of a musical career was documented in 1891. He played in small groups, and bands, until he started doing rag-time music. Joplin was a star after starting Ragtime, and continued to be one until the day he died in 1917.

Andrew J. Crandall