SCOTT JOPLIN

Title: SCOTT JOPLIN
Category: Arts & Humanities / Music
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SCOTT JOPLIN

CHOW, BENJAMIN F EXTRA CREDIT In the late 1890’s ; a craze for a new kind of music called ragtime swept the country off it’s feet. Instant popularity of ragtime increased before the turn of the century. By 1910, the “ragtime” mania reached its peak in all elements of music: popular dance, theater, and movie music. Scott Joplin was a young black man that mastered and polish this subtle art. Born in Texarkana, Texas on November 29, 1868, …showed first 75 words of 327 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 327 total…This can be compared to his other famous pieces of work “Maple Leaf Rag” and “The Entertainer” which all exercise the reappearing theme that shows a tendency to round out by always returning to the home key. “Magnetic Rag” was the last piece that Scott completed. It was subtitled : syncopation classiques because of his wonderful blend of syncopation on every up-beat and mad-cow improvisations tailored to sound like European dance music that influenced early ragtime.

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