MUH 2022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jelly Roll Morton, Big Band
26 Sep 2016
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Ragtime - essential to jazz- improvisatory feel but not improvised hence not. Pianists not used in dixieland band - they developed a solo style of playing piano. A piano player was hired in place of a six or seven-piece band, forcing the player to develop a technique that provided a full sound o. Left hand-bass notes & chords; right hand-highly syncopated melodic lines. By the end of 1800 ragtime became very popular in new orleans. Rag referred to a kind of music that sounded like a military march & rhythms borrowed from. Some consider ragtime the first jazz style, although involved only limited improvisation. Rags too difficult for the amateur pianists, had to be simplified. Rag composed in a definite format showing european influence. The most prolific composer of ragtime music o o o. Published about fifty rags (some say he composed 600) Maple leaf rag: the most famous rag-sold hundreds of thousands of copies in the first ten years.
