MUSICAL GENRE:RAGTIME AND THE BIG BAND SOUNDUNIT ONE OF MUSIC: LESSON TWO, PAGE 8

MUSICAL GENRE:RAGTIMECONCEPTS

•Ragtime is a musical genre composed for the piano, generally in duple meter and containing a highly syncopated rhythm.•Its composition usually consists of three or four contrasting sections and each one has 16 or 32 measures in length.

WHAT IS RAGTIME?

DUPLE METER•It is a musical meter characterized by a primary division of 2 beats to the bar, usually indicated by 2 and multiples (simple) or 6 and multiples (compound) in the upper figure of the time signature, with 2/2 (cut time), 2/4, and 6/8 (at a fast tempo) being the most common examples.

DUPLE METER SIMPLE

DUPLE METER

COMPOUNDDUPLE METER

THE POPULARITY OF RAGTIME•Ragtime has been a strong

presence in music, entertainment, and scholarship for over a century.•Ernest Hogan was an innovator and key pioneer who helped develop the musical genre, and is credited with coining the term ragtime.

ERNEST HOGAN•Ernest Hogan is the first African-American entertainer to produce and star in a Broadway show (“The Oyster Man” in 1907) and helped create the music genre of ragtime.

THE POPULARITY OF RAGTIME•This has been enjoyed during its

popularity peak between 1897 and 1918.•Its popularity quickly spread in Europe and there, as in America, soon became a fad.•Ragtime fell out of favor as jazz claimed the public’s imagination after 1917.

MUSICAL GENRE:RAGTIMESCOTT JOPLIN

SCOTT JOPLIN (1868-1917)•Scott Joplin is an

African-American composer and pianist.•Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions, and was later titled The King of Ragtime.

COMPOSTIONS OF SCOTT JOPLIN•Joplin has wrote 44

original ragtime pieces, one ballet ragtime, and two operas.•The ballet ragtime is “The Ragtime in Sedalia.”•The two operas are “A Guest of Honor”, and “Treemonisha”

MAPLE LEAF RAG•One of his most famous rag is the “Maple Leaf Rag” published in 1899.•For at least 12 years after its publication, the "Maple Leaf Rag" heavily influenced subsequent ragtime composers with its melody lines, harmonic progressions or metric patterns.

MAPLE LEAF RAG•This composition became the model for ragtime compositions.• The piece gave Joplin a steady if unspectacular income for the rest of his life.

MUSICAL GENRE:BIG BANDCONCEPTS

•A big band is a type of musical ensemble which was developed in the United States.•It is associated with jazz and the Swing Era typically consisting of rhythm, woodwind and brass instruments.

WHAT IS BIG BAND?

MUSICAL GENRE:BIG BANDINSTRUMENTATION

•The is composed of approximately 12 to 25 musicians.•The standard 17-instrumentation that evolved includes: four trumpets, four trombones, five saxophones, and a four-piece rhythm section.

THE INSTRUMENTATION

THE INSTRUMENTATION

•However, some composers and bandleaders have used varied instrumentations with more or fewer players and instruments.•Recently, synthesizers and electronic keyboards have been used to replace the piano.

THE INSTRUMENTATION

MUSICAL GENRE:RAGTIME AND THE BIG BAND SOUNDEND