What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians... All publication s masquerading under the name of ragtime are not the genuine article... That real ragtime of the higher class is rather difficult to play is a painful truth which most pianists have discovered. Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music... Joplin ragtime is destroyed by careless or imperfect rendering, and very often players lost the effect entirely by playing too fast.
Marching onward, marching onward Marching to that lovely tune Marching onward, marching onward Happy as a bird in June Sliding onward, slidi… - Scott Joplin
Marching onward, marching onward Marching to that lovely tune Marching onward, marching onward Happy as a bird in June Sliding onward, slidi…
- Scott Joplin
Let me see you do the 'rag time dance'... Turn left and do the 'Cake walk prance'... Turn the other way and do the 'Slow drag'... Now take your la… - Scott Joplin
Let me see you do the 'rag time dance'... Turn left and do the 'Cake walk prance'... Turn the other way and do the 'Slow drag'... Now take your la…
Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture. - Scott Joplin
Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.
Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that. - Scott Joplin
Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.
Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy. - Scott Joplin
Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.
One day the 'Maple Leaf' will make me King of Ragtime Composers. - Scott Joplin
One day the 'Maple Leaf' will make me King of Ragtime Composers.
What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians... All publication s masqu… - Scott Joplin
What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians... All publication s masqu…
When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me. - Scott Joplin
When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.
Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast. - Scott Joplin
Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast.
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