https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPmruHc4S9Q

Enjoy this classic music from 1902.

Scott Joplin is one of my favorites.

Thank you, Topper.

How about that!

I should get out some music and try to learn some of it again. I quit playing the piano pretty much when I had my twins. They didn't "allow" me to play the piano.

That's a good idea!

Hear the difference?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hp1Y8R_dCw

Thanks! This one is better.

I repeatedly came across this admonition, from Joplin and other early ragtime composers, when I discovered this music and became immersed in it as a college student (90-year-old Eubie Blake played on our campus). Of course there are exceptions, and I suspect the often frenetic pace was influenced by its use as accompaniment to silent movies, whose action was typically speeded-up and jerky.

Here is Scott Joplin himself playing one of his ragtime waltzes on a piano role--rather slowly and expressively:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chg02lp2DWw

Full orchestra versions using the original pre-WW1 arrangements:

https://paragonragtime.com/store/

The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra

https://paragonragtime.com/



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Ragtime was all the rage in the seventies, with the release of the movie "The Sting". It led to a massive revival of interest in all sorts of old-fashioned stuff.