![]() ![]() Joplin’s work and performance on this disc are outstanding. Medal of Arts for his music accomplishments. William Bolcom is a well-known pianist, composer and accomplished GrammyĪward winner, and has also been awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Traditional in rag structure yet different and very individual inĬharacter a fitting piece to end this disc while saluting a uniqueĬomposer and a sample of his singular body of work. Was Magnetic Rag, published in 1914, a lively, complex piece, Subtitled “A Mexican Serenade”, a haunting syncopated tango with aįull-chord right hand melody that sounds like weeping. During that year he published Country Club, Euphonic Sounds, and Solace, In 1909 Joplin began an experimental and final In 1908 he wrote the sweet and enticing Sugar Cane, along with Fig Leaf Rag, a classic rag that ![]() Searchlight Rag was published in 1907 andįeatures interesting switches of syncopation between right and left hands.Īlso published in 1907 were Nonpareil and the majestic Gladiolus Rag. The Ragtime Dance was originally written inġ902 with lyrics as a ballet, and then re-written as a piano rag and Bethena, an unusually-crafted syncopated waltz, His mature phase lastedįrom 1904 to 1908. In 1899 that established the standard for construction of sections and The Entertainer, published in 1902, which became famous again inġ974 as the theme song for the film “The Sting”. Styles Maple Leaf Rag, a brilliant composition published The bar high during his early development period (1899-1904) by composing Original Rags, a joyful ragtime cakewalk Elite Syncopations, featuring an interesting mix of lyrical Scott Joplin’s career as a composer evolved through three phases. This disc presents 16 of his many compositions, Joplin (1868-1917) was an early composer and a major figure in theĭevelopment of ragtime. Steady left-hand bass accompanied by a syncopated right-hand melody. On the piano, the style is characterized by a The term ragtime is a contraction for “ragged time”, or breaking Ragtimeĭeveloped it’s unique style by blending European structure with African ![]() Louis was growing into a major city and culturalĬenter, as well as a gateway for newcomers migrating to the west. This is an essential item for ragtime collections, and highly enjoyable for anybody.Ragtime music first appeared in the 1880’s in the saloons and brothelsĬentered around St. Steinway & Sons, working in the Sono Luminus studios in Virginia, achieves an appropriate acoustic. Especially if you have a bit of familiarity with classic ragtime, you might sample Classic Rags "II: Epitaph," a lovely tribute to Creole composer Louis Chauvin, whose music for the most part was never written down and has been lost. And, fascinatingly, he wrote pieces with traditional melodic and harmonic material that fool with register and attack as a serialist composer might have. He expanded Joplin's harmonic vocabulary with elements drawn from Chopin and other composers. He wrote rags in programmatically related series. He wrote pieces that approximated the models of Joplin and others (most of these are denoted by the title "Classic Rags," although these are not mere imitations). ![]() Bolcom approached classic piano ragtime in a variety of ways. Myer rightly makes the pieces into concert works, not showboat nostalgia, but he avoids the rhythmically denatured sound of Joshua Rifkin's Scott Joplin recordings. It's putting things too strongly to say, as the graphics here do, that these works "would organically interweave American popular music cultures into the fabric of concert music for decades to come" in fact, these delightful pieces are underrepresented in concert and on recordings, and this recording by pianist Spencer Myer is welcome. After ragtime music enjoyed a revival of popularity in the 1960s, American composer William Bolcom contributed some new pieces to the genre. ![]()
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