16 Facts About Ragtime

Ragtime – spelled rag-time or rag time – is a musical style that flourished from the 1890s to 1910s.

Ragtime was popularized during the early 20th century by composers such as Scott Joplin, James Scott and Joseph Lamb.

Ragtime pieces are typically composed for and performed on piano, though the genre has been adapted for a variety of instruments and styles.

Ragtime music was developed long before it was printed into sheet music.

Ragtime quickly established itself as a distinctly American form of popular music.

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Ragtime became the first African-American music to have an impact on mainstream popular culture.

Ragtime was an influence on early jazz; the influence of Jelly Roll Morton continued in the Harlem stride piano style of players such as James P Johnson and Fats Waller.

In 1973, The New England Ragtime Ensemble recorded The Red Back Book, a compilation of some of Joplin's rags in period orchestrations edited by conservatory president Gunther Schuller.

Ragtime influenced classical composers including Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, and Igor Stravinsky.

Ragtime was one of the main influences on the early development of jazz.

Ragtime incorporated the Spanish Tinge in his performances, which gave a habanera or tango rhythm to his music.

Ragtime music was distributed via piano rolls for player pianos.

Ragtime served as the roots for stride piano, a more improvisational piano style popular in the 1920s and 1930s.

Ragtime guitar continued to be popular into the 1930s, usually in the form of songs accompanied by skilled guitar work.

Ragtime pieces came in a number of different styles during the years of its popularity and appeared under a number of different descriptive names.

Ragtime later returned to the style with two preludes for piano: Minstrels, and General Lavine-excentric, which was inspired by a Medrano circus clown.