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Definition of Ragtime
1. Noun. Music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano).
Definition of Ragtime
1. n. Time characterized by syncopation, as in many negro melodies.
Definition of Ragtime
1. Noun. (music uncountable) A musical form, predating jazz, characterized by a specific type of syncopation in which melodic accents occur between metrical beats. ¹
2. Noun. (music countable) A piece of music in this style. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ragtime
1. a style of American dance music [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ragtime
Literary usage of Ragtime
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Guards Came Through: And Other Poems by Arthur Conan Doyle (1920)
"["During the catastrophe the band of the Titanic played negro melodies and ragtime
until the last moment, when they broke into a hymn."— DAILY PAPER. ..."
2. Reflections of a Bass-drum Player on Everything Worth Thinking about by Rafael Navarro (1904)
"ragtime What is ragtime, anyway? I once heard a colored citizen, who evidently
had not given much time to the study of syncopation in musical rhythms, ..."
3. Putnam's Magazine (1910)
"ragtime By BARONESS VON HUTTEN MET him first on one of the Channel-boats. It was
a cold day and he was walking up and down, as I was, trying to keep warm. ..."
4. Today's Short Stories Analyzed: An Informal Encyclopedia of Short Story Art by Robert Wilson Neal (1918)
"... A ragtime LADY BY EUGENE MANLOVE RHODES AND LAURENCE YATES Reprinted by
Permission of the Editors and the ..."
5. Life's Enthusiasms by David Starr Jordan (1906)
"The spirit of ragtime is not confined to music: graft is the ragtime of business,
the spoils system the ragtime of politics, adulteration the ragtime of ..."
6. Life's Enthusiasms by David Starr Jordan (1906)
"the name of "ragtime." It is the music of those who do not know good music or
... The spirit of ragtime is not confined to music : graft is the ragtime of ..."
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