Ragtime

Ragtime was considered?

First form of jazz

When did ragtime orginated?

The Midwest, but flourished in New Orleans — the birth place of jazz

Ragtime instruments

Primary piano as the style developed brass horns banjos and other instruments were added

Syncopated bouche rhythm

March like feel (ragging)

Scoot Joplin

Most important Ratime Composer

Wrote 50 piano rags and 2 ragtime operas

Scott Joplin won what?

Won the Pulitzer price after his death for 1911 ragtime opera, treemonisha

Popular Joplin songs

Maple leaf rag

The entertainer

The easy winners

Jelly Roll Morton

Piano player and bandleader

Got his start playing piano in a house of prostitution in New Orleans red light district

Best know rags

The pearls

Sportin house rag