Topic: Scott Joplin

Eleven great classical recordings

Liszt: Lise de la Salle" (Naive). Lise de la Salle, piano.. Liszt: Annees de Pylerinage (Chandos; two disks). Louis Lortie, piano.. Liszt: "Romance...

Scott Joplin

Scott Joplin was a very talented and successful musician and composer of ragtime music. All though the first year of sales were not as successful as Joplin had hoped, the following years brought him better success by selling half a million by ...

Ragtime music, symbol of...

Ragtime music is a symbol of American freedom, artistic and creative. African-Americans were coming into their own as the times had changed and they were granted their freedom. Barriers were breaking down and the old rules were being broken, slowly but surely ...

What is ragtime?

Ragtime is a highly syncopated type of music which grew up in America between 1897 and 1918, based on a mixture of march music and African polyrythms. In 1899, a yound composer from Texarkana in Texas, called Scott Joplin, broke onto the ...
Where does American classical music tradition begin? Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1826-1869) not only composed in traditional arenas, he incorporated Creole motifs he heard as a boy in New Orleans . Gottschalk, a brilliant concert pianist who toured the world, also encountered Latin rhythms ...
Many people know the catchy ragtime music of Scott Joplin, the King of Ragtime, with its cheerful syncopation, because of the movie The Sting. St Louis , on the Mississippi River , and the third largest US city at the time, was an important ...

History of jazz

Jazz music has developed for over one hundred years and this presentation will aim to develop your understanding of both the characteristics and sounds of the jazz legacy that has been created. (Sound extract titled Maple Leaf Rag Scott Joplin' to be ...
In the old days, it was good enough to name instrumental music by the type, key signature, and serial number. Then I guess the name would be "Symphony #5 in C-minor". John Philip Sousa attached names to his marches like "The Washington ...

Barber without the Adagio

by Arthur Kaptainis. . Few composers are defined as mercilessly by a single movement as Samuel Barber - he of the Adagio. Listeners who brought a...

Subject Boxing

In 1910, the boxer Jack Johnson and the musician Scott Joplin embodied a new sense of possibility for African-Americans June 2010 | By Michael Walsh . Inside the little-known, action-packed world of Muay Thai boxing February 01, 2007 | By Cardiff de Alejo Garcia .