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The Nonpareil (Scott Joplin)

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The combination of classical music, the musical atmosphere present around Texarkana (including work songs, gospel hymns, spirituals and dance music) and Joplin’s natural ability has been cited as contributing significantly to the invention of a new style that blended African-American musical styles with European forms and melodies, and first became celebrated in the 1890s: ragtime.

When Joplin was learning the piano, serious musical circles condemned ragtime because of its association with the vulgar and inane songs “…cranked out by the tune-smiths of Tin Pan Alley.” As a composer Joplin refined ragtime, elevating it above the low and unrefined form played by the “…wandering honky-tonk pianists… playing mere dance music” of popular imagination. This new art form, the classic rag, combined Afro-American folk music’s syncopation and 19th-century European romanticism, with its harmonic schemes and its march-like tempos. In the words of one critic, “Ragtime was basically… an Afro-American version of the polka, or its analog, the Sousa-style march.” With this as a foundation, Joplin intended his compositions to be played exactly as he wrote them _ without improvisation. Joplin wrote his rags as “classical” music in miniature form in order to raise ragtime above its “cheap bordello” origins and produced work that opera historian Elise Kirk described as, “… more tuneful, contrapuntal, infectious, and harmonically colorful than any others of his era.”

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