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The terms below should not be considered exact, but merely an attempt to pin down the general meaning of the concept. Shoe Tickler Rag, cover of the music sheet for a song from 1911 by Wilbur Campbell. Cakewalk – a pre-ragtime dance form popular until about 1904. The music is intended to be representative of an African American dance contest ...
The music concept of rāk [clarification needed] or rang (meaning “colour”) in Persian is probably a pronunciation of rāga. According to Hormoz Farhat , it is unclear how this term came to Persia, it has no meaning in modern Persian language, and the concept of rāga is unknown in Persia.
Classic rag (short for classical ragtime) is the style of ragtime composition pioneered by Scott Joplin and the Missouri school of ragtime composers. These compositions were first considered "classic" by Joplin's publisher, John Stark , as a way to distinguish them from what he considered the "common" rags of other publishers.
A variety of musical terms are encountered in printed scores, music reviews, and program notes. Most of the terms are Italian, in accordance with the Italian origins of many European musical conventions. Sometimes, the special musical meanings of these phrases differ from the original or current Italian meanings.
Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...
"The Entertainer" is a 1902 classic piano rag written by Scott Joplin. [1] It was sold first as sheet music by John Stark & Son of St. Louis, Missouri, [2] and in the 1910s as piano rolls that would play on player pianos. [1] The first recording was by blues and ragtime musicians the Blue Boys in 1928, played on mandolin and guitar. [1]
Rag (typography), the ragged edge of a block of text; Recombination-activating gene, encoding enzymes RAG-1 and RAG-2; RAG rating (Red, Amber, Green), a traffic light rating system; Rags (dog) (1916–1936), 1st Infantry Division (United States) mascot in World War I; The Rag (club), alternative name for the Army and Navy Club in London
Melakarta Ragas Janya ragas are Carnatic music ragas derived from the fundamental set of 72 ragas called Melakarta ragas, by the permutation and combination of the various ascending and descending notes. The process of deriving janya ragas from the parent melakartas is complex and leads to an open mathematical possibility of around thirty thousand ragas. Though limited by the necessity of the ...