ragtime

How To Use ragtime In A Sentence

• The instrumentals are clean and crisp, nicely showcasing Parker's mixture of chamber music and ragtime.
• Scott Joplin is regarded as the pre-eminent composer of ragtime compositions.
• The mood in their haunted honky-tonk runs from lugubrious laments to boisterous boogies, drawing in touches of ragtime, country, blues and cabaret.
• Her solos are reminiscent of Wally Rose's lilting ragtime sides on the first Watters Jazzman records in 1941.
• About the street one now more often hears ragtime hummed than an old tribal song,’ she continued.
• From the ‘sorrow songs’ to ragtime to the spirituals and the blues to jazz and gospel, black music has provided for the African American writer a springboard into culture and the contemporary experience.
• As Joplin famously noted of all his compositions, "It is never right to play 'ragtime' fast," while his concert waltz "Bethena" adds the direction "cantabile" - "as if singing. NPR Topics: News
• Alexander's Ragtime Band is pure corn but rather tasty all the same.
• The emotions rise from the subtext and take center-stage in rousing number after number until my ability to respond to rousing music kind of numbed out -- although that may have been because I found the music bland -- except for those based most directly on actual ragtime, which were much fresher than the over-wrought ballads and anthems of the rest. Ragtime
• I'm not just talking ragtime here, soldier," John assured him. T2®: THE FUTURE WAR