Search results for "Ragtime music" - New World Encyclopedia
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- In music, syncopation is a stress on a normally unstressed beat, or ... which is used in Son montuno Cuban dance music. Timing can vary, but it ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 18:11, 24 October 2022
- meter. The defining characteristic of ragtime music is a specific type of ... or by imitation of live performances. Ragtime music was also distributed ...20 KB (3,149 words) - 00:05, 8 December 2022
- Scott Joplin (January 1868 - April 1, 1917) was an African-American composer and instrumentalist who became the leading exponent of ragtime music ...20 KB (2,967 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- Century associated largely with the folk music of Eastern Europe, notably ... bands. The rising popularity of ragtime music defined the xylophone ...7 KB (1,049 words) - 21:33, 15 January 2024
- and inspired related movements in music and literature. In cubist ... A prime example of cubism in music was given by composer Igor Stravinsky ...7 KB (1,061 words) - 15:09, 3 July 2023
- to make a major mark in the folk and rock music scenes. His unique, virtuoso ... Gary became interested in music while still a small boy. At the age ...11 KB (1,811 words) - 19:59, 8 December 2022
- Dixieland music is an early style of jazz which developed in New Orleans ... considering the latter to denigrate the music as unsophisticated and also ...17 KB (2,609 words) - 16:20, 29 January 2024
- many consider the first true composer of jazz music. A light-skinned ... Choosing a life in the fledgling new music and its licentious ethos ...15 KB (2,337 words) - 18:02, 2 April 2024
- directors Milos Forman on Hair (1978), Ragtime (1980) and Amadeus (1984 ... Tharp's work encompasses choreography with classical music, jazz ...10 KB (1,421 words) - 16:40, 10 May 2022
- final appearance in a feature film was in Ragtime (1981), capping a career ... | 1981 || Ragtime || || |- | 1968 || Arizona Bushwhackers || (narrator) || ...15 KB (2,233 words) - 22:37, 22 June 2022
- performer of his own romantic piano music pieces. Though he only lived ... American themes into European classical music, the first Pan-American artist ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 07:55, 9 March 2023
- drama, including the award-winning novels Ragtime (1975), Billy Bathgate ... adaptations were for the film "Ragtime" (1981) and the Broadway ...37 KB (4,830 words) - 17:29, 12 February 2024
- Pop music, often called simply pop, is contemporary music and a common ... by Black and White Minstrels performing ragtime music. Like Rock ’n’ ...27 KB (4,126 words) - 00:21, 1 December 2023
- Swing refers to both a special quality of jazz music (and some related ... Swing music, also known as swing jazz, is a form of jazz music that ...14 KB (2,375 words) - 01:51, 27 February 2023
- bluesmen of his era, he dropped out of the music business for 30 years until ... examples of fingerpicking found in guitar music." In the 1960s, "I ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 22:46, 29 January 2023
- Barbershop music is a style of a cappella, or unaccompanied vocal ... Barbershop music is famous and renowned for its "ringing" ...25 KB (3,778 words) - 08:05, 20 September 2023
- in the eighth grade to become a full-time ragtime pianist, working the city ... radio attraction by the mid-1920s, with a music and comedy trio called Clayton ...15 KB (2,360 words) - 13:22, 1 August 2022
- African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music ... vernacular traditions. African American music and all aspects of African ...16 KB (2,453 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- and pianists, used a working man's music to influence the kings and ... Gershwin's music exudes the power of spring-like hope. Unlike ...15 KB (2,281 words) - 13:20, 30 December 2022
- gaslight-era entertainer in the 1981 film Ragtime. It was his first film in ... *Ragtime (1981) *Pandemonium (1982) *A Time to Remember (1987) ...17 KB (2,571 words) - 17:21, 30 January 2024
