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Ragtime  n.  (Mus.) A rhythm with a regular accompaniment in two-four time and a melody characterized by syncopation, first recognized in many negro melodies; also a style of American music in this rhythm.






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"Ragtime" Quotes from Famous Books



... "improvements," cut down all the trees to make houses of, and turned all the green waterways into horse-power for machinery. Then we shall have cotton-mill epics, phonograph elegies from the tops of tall buildings; and then ragtime music, which interprets that divine art only for vulgar heels and toes, will take the place ...
— The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance • Paul Elmer More



Words linked to "Ragtime" :   dance music, rag



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