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    Ragtime, also spelled rag-time or rag time, is a musical style that had its peak from the 1890s to 1910s. Its cardinal trait is its syncopated or "ragged"...
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  • ragtime in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ragtime is a style of music. Ragtime may also refer to: Ragtime (novel) (1975), by E. L. Doctorow Ragtime...
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  • Ragtime is a musical with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the 1975 novel of the same...
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    RagTime is a frame-oriented business publishing software which combines word processing, spreadsheets, simple drawings, image processing, and charts,...
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    American composer and pianist. Dubbed the "King of Ragtime", he composed more than 40 ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first and...
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  • Ragtime is a 1981 American drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the 1975 historical novel Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow. It is set in and around turn-of-the-century...
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  • Ragtime is a novel by E. L. Doctorow, first published in 1975. The sweeping historical fiction occurs in the area of New York City between 1902 and 1912...
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  • Jazz (section Ragtime)
    Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. Since the 1920s Jazz Age...
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    Ragtime was one of the world's fastest yachts in the 1970s. In 1973, Ragtime became famous for beating the favorite, Windward Passage by four minutes,...
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    "The Ragtime Dance" is a piece of ragtime music by Scott Joplin, first published in 1902. Although the piece was performed in Sedalia, Missouri on November...
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    an early ragtime musical composition for piano composed by Scott Joplin. It was one of Joplin's early works, becoming the model for ragtime compositions...
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  • A list of ragtime composers, including one or more famous or characteristic compositions. Felix Arndt (1889–1918),"Desecration Rag" (1914), "Nola" (1916)...
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    piano, often shortened to stride, is a jazz piano style that arose from ragtime players. Prominent stride pianists include James P. Johnson, Willie "the...
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    "Alexander's Ragtime Band" is a Tin Pan Alley song by American composer Irving Berlin released in 1911; it is often inaccurately cited as his first global...
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    recording was by blues and ragtime musicians the Blue Boys in 1928, played on mandolin and guitar. As one of the classics of ragtime, it returned to international...
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  • Ragtime is a children's television series created by Michael Cole and presented by Maggie Henderson and Fred Harris. The programme features play with...
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  • The ragtime era helped to define not only new music but also new clothing.[citation needed] The ragtime era began in the late 19th century and transitioned...
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  • Ragtime Band is a 1938 American musical film released by 20th Century Fox that takes its name from the 1911 Irving Berlin song "Alexander's Ragtime Band"...
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  • The ragtime progression is a chord progression characterized by a chain of secondary dominants following the circle of fifths, named for its popularity...
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  • Alexander's Ragtime Band is a 1911 composition by American songwriter Irving Berlin. It may also refer to: Alexander's Ragtime Band (film), a 1938 film...
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  • Boogie Wings (known in Japan as The Great Ragtime Show (ザ・グレイト・ラグタイムショー)) is a horizontally scrolling shooter released in arcades by Data East in 1992...
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  • That Ragtime Band is a 1913 American short comedy film directed by Mack Sennett and featuring Fatty Arbuckle. Ford Sterling as Prof. Smelts Mabel Normand...
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    Ragtime or RAGTIME is the code name of four secret surveillance programs conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States. These programs...
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    of short fiction and a stage drama, including the award-winning novels Ragtime (1975), Billy Bathgate (1989), and The March (2005). These, like many of...
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  • List of ragtime pianists Elliott Shapiro (1895–1956), son of music publisher Maurice Shapiro, in a 1951 article, offered a list of standout ragtime pianists...
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    Hunter (May 16, 1876 – January 23, 1906) was an American composer of ragtime music. Charles Hunter was born in Columbia, Tennessee, and at birth was...
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    complete list of musical compositions by James Scott (February 12, 1885 – August 30, 1938). James Scott was one of the three leading composers of ragtime....
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    Ray's Ragtime is a vintage store in Portland, Oregon. Ray Tillotson founded and continued to own the business, as of 2016. The store occupied the ground...
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    20th centuries, as southern blues guitarists tried to imitate the popular ragtime piano music of the day, with the guitarist's thumb functioning as the pianist's...
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    for his ragtime compositions, and was dubbed "The King of Ragtime." During his career, Joplin wrote over 40 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet...
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