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Syncopated Musings: Classic Piano Rags And Ragtime Waltzes by Bryan Wright
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fave it Traditional | Ragtime
16 tracks | 63 minutes
Released Sep 2004
on Rivermont
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- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:25 Ham And! (Arthur Marshall) BUY MP3 03:25 Ham And! (Arthur Marshall) "GIFT MP3" 03:25 Ham And! (Arthur Marshall)
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:56 Country Club (Scott Joplin) BUY MP3 03:56 Country Club (Scott Joplin) "GIFT MP3" 03:56 Country Club (Scott Joplin)
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 05:42 Magnetic Rag (Scott Joplin) FREE 05:42 Magnetic Rag (Scott Joplin) "GIFT MP3" 05:42 Magnetic Rag (Scott Joplin)
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- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:53 Ragtime Nightingale (Joseph Lamb) BUY MP3 03:53 Ragtime Nightingale (Joseph Lamb) "GIFT MP3" 03:53 Ragtime Nightingale (Joseph Lamb)
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Classic solo piano RAGTIME: hauntingly beautiful melodies with gentle syncopation
Bio / Background
"What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay...Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture" wrote Scott Joplin in 1908 when ragtime was at the peak of its popularity. Across the United States, composers and publishers were busy churning out one rag after another to satisfy a public that could not get enough of ragtime's "weird and intoxicating effect." Ragtime flourished for roughly twenty years, during which it evolved from the simple folk melodies of Tom Turpin and Blind Boone to the sophisticated, elegant works of Scott Joplin, Joseph Lamb, and James Scott, later giving way to the acrobatic, harmonically complex novelty rags of such composers as Zez Confrey, Roy Bargy, and Arthur Schutt.
Ragtime sounds as fresh today as it did a century ago. For this recording, pianist Bryan Wright has selected sixteen classic piano rags and ragtime waltzes from 1896-1923.
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