Scott Joplin: King Of Ragtime

1880’s, Scott Joplin traveled as a teen musician and played in many bars. Throughout this time, Joplin spent many days Sedalia’s Lincoln High School. After a few years, Joplin traveled to Chicago for the World Fair. While there, Joplin fronted a band as a cornet player and met Otis Saunders. Saunders begun to inspire the idea of Joplin’s works being publicized. In 1894, Joplin moved back to Sedalia, Missouri and joined the Queen City Cornet Band. With this, and many other groups, Joplin traveled

Scott Joplin’s birth date was never actually correct; they would use the birth date of November 24 1868, which is incorrect. Documents have show that he was born between June 1867 and mid January 1868 and not November 1868. Scott and his family left his farm at a early age, which his father was working at; his father was a former slave. The moved to the border of Arkansas and Texas, in the newly formed town called Texarkana. Scott was introduced to a piano in the white-owned home, where his mother

William Bolcom and his Ragtime Music William Bolcom, American composer and pianist. He has a wide range of genre for his composition work, Piano Solo, Symphony, Chamber music and songs. He once said “picking up a thread from our American musical history, and taking it to the next step” (Shrude, 1). What is the thread Bolcom picked? And how he made it to the next step from his work? Between 1960 and 1970, Bolcom recorded a lot of works by Scott Joplin, Joseph Lamb, and James Scott as a Pianist. He was

Scott Joplin was a composer and pianist of ragtime who was born in the late 1860s near the border of Texas. He learned to play the piano as a young adult and started to travel with his amazing talent while he was young. He is known as the king of ragtime during his generation. He is famous for writing 44 ragtime pieces during his lifetime. He wrote one ballet and two operas as well, and one of his pieces called “Maple Leaf Rag”, eventually was one of the most well-known ragtime pieces of the

was influenced by African-American spirituals, European notation, and other Caribbean influences (Waldo 5). This music, as we know it today, is ragtime, the first original written music of the United States. But what exactly is ragtime? Ragtime is not a clearly defined genre of music. It's not classical, nor modern, but somewhere in between the two. Ragtime, in itself, is the earliest written precursor of jazz (Waldo 3). It started as African-American spirituals, passed unto children of slaves, which

Okay, class! Today were are going to discuss Ragtime music. It’s a genre that some of you may have already heard of, but will likely be new for most of you. First, remember that a genre is a type of classification. For example, Hip-Hop and Rock are genres of music, and you should be able to think on your own how each of those genres comes up with a set of characteristics that help define each type of music and set it apart from other genres. To continue with our previous examples, Hip-hop often features

Scott Joplin (1868-1917) Scott Joplin, commonly known as the "King of Ragtime" music, was born on November 24, 1868, in Bowie County, Texas near Linden. Joplin came from a large musical family. His father, Giles Joplin was a musician who had fiddled dance music while serving as a slave at his master's parties. His mother, Florence Givens Joplin, born free and out of slavery, sang and played the banjo, and four of his brothers and sisters either sang or played strings. Joplin's talent

and the clarinet. The most trendy Jazz types were Ragtime, Bebop, and Contemporary. “Most early jazz was played by small bands, performing for dancing or at social occasions including picnics and funerals, or by solo pianists (“Jazz” n.d para. 11).”

influence as one of the most celebrated and discussed musical idioms. The main topics this paper will be covering how we how we got Jazz through western traditional music and the improvisation and syncopation of the African American slaves, what is Ragtime and why is it so influential, the early pioneers in Jazz such as Buddy Bolden, New Orleans African American subcultures of canal street and why it was important to the development of Jazz and Jelly Roll Morton’s claim to be the inventor jazz. Jazz

1877-1900 history of music and music technology In the years between 1877 and 1900 music and music technology started to spread out and become better known to the people around the world and in their own households thanks to the phonograph. It all started in 1877 when Thomas Edison Invented the phonograph It was the first device that could record sound and play it back. the phonograph helped many musicians make their music known to others around the world and also helped them rise to fame. It also