King Of Ragtime

Author : Stephen Costanza
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781534410374

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King of Ragtime by Stephen Costanza Pdf

A stunning, rhythmic picture book biography of African American composer Scott Joplin, whose ragtime music paved the way for jazz. There was something special about Scott Joplin… This quiet kid could make a piano laugh out loud. Scott, the son of a man who had been enslaved, became a king—the King of Ragtime. This celebration of Scott Joplin, whose ragtime compositions paved the way for jazz, will captivate audiences and put a beat in their step, and the kaleidoscope-like illustrations will draw young readers in again and again.

Author : Edward A. Berlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195356465

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King of Ragtime by Edward A. Berlin Pdf

In 1974, the academy award-winning film The Sting brought back the music of Scott Joplin, a black ragtime composer who died in 1917. Led by The Entertainer, one of the most popular pieces of the mid-1970s, a revival of his music resulted in events unprecedented in American musical history. Never before had any composer's music been so acclaimed by both the popular and classical music worlds. While reaching a "Top Ten" position in the pop charts, Joplin's music was also being performed in classical recitals and setting new heights for sales of classical records. His opera Treemonisha was performed both in opera houses and on Broadway. Destined to be the definitive work on the man and his music, King of Ragtime is written by Edward A. Berlin. A renowned authority on Joplin and the author of the acclaimed and widely cited Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History, Berlin redefines the Scott Joplin biography. Using the tools of a trained musicologist, he has uncovered a vast amount of new information about Joplin. His biography truly documents the story of the composer, replacing the myths and unsupported anecdotes of previous histories. He shows how Joplin's opera Treemonisha was a tribute to the woman he loved, a woman other biographers never even mentioned. Berlin also reveals that Joplin was an associate of Irving Berlin, and that he accused Berlin of stealing his music to compose Alexander's Ragtime Band in 1911. Berlin paints a vivid picture of the ragtime years, placing Scott Joplin's story in its historical context. The composer emerges as a representative of the first post-Civil War generation of African Americans, of the men and women who found in the world of entertainment a way out of poverty and lowly social status. King of Ragtime recreates the excitement of these pioneers, who dreamed of greatness as they sought to expand the limits society placed upon their race.

Author : David A. Jasen,Trebor Jay Tichenor
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486144573

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Rags and Ragtime by David A. Jasen,Trebor Jay Tichenor Pdf

Definitive history traces the genre's growth and diversification from its 19th-century origins through its heyday and modern revival. Discusses 48 major composers and 800 rags. More than 100 photos.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-10-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458730718

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The King of Ragtime (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward Berlin
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781504030649

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Ragtime by Edward Berlin Pdf

Ragtime, the jaunty, toe-tapping music that captivated American society from the 1890s through World War I, forms the roots of America’s popular musical expression. But the understanding of ragtime and its era has been clouded by a history of murky impressions, half-truths, and inventive fictions. Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History cuts through the murkiness. A methodical survey of thousands of rags along with an examination of then-contemporary opinions in magazines and newspapers demonstrate how the music evolved, and how America responded to it.

Author : Rudi Blesh,Harriet Janis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258516527

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They All Played Ragtime by Rudi Blesh,Harriet Janis Pdf

Author : Scott Joplin
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1991-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476802183

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Scott Joplin's Greatest Hits (Songbook) by Scott Joplin Pdf

(Easy Piano Composer Collection). 12 of the best from "The King of Ragtime," complete with an introduction, a biography, and extensive playing tips to help the beginning ragtime player. Songs include: The Entertainer * Maple Leaf Rag * Bethena * The Easy Winners * and more.

Author : Larry Karp
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476623832

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Brun Campbell by Larry Karp Pdf

At fifteen, Sanford Brunson Campbell (1884-1952) became enchanted with the new sounds of ragtime and ran away from his rural Kansas home, hopping a train to Sedalia, Missouri, determined to take piano lessons from a black musician he had never met. Scott Joplin nicknamed his white protege "The Ragtime Kid." A composer and entertainer at the dawn of the ragtime era, "Brun" was a prime mover in the ragtime revival of the 1940s and helped establish Joplin's prominence as one of America's most innovative composers. Campbell's own legacy was tarnished by his inability to tell a straight story and he was often dismissed as a liar and a clown. Based on his memoirs, musical compositions and correspondence with music industry notables, this first comprehensive biography of Campbell reveals an engaging storyteller and a devotee wholly dedicated to a musical genre that had been largely forgotten. His firsthand account of life as an itinerant pianist in the Midwest provides a unique picture of life a century ago.

Author : E.L. Doctorow
Publisher : Random House
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307762948

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Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow Pdf

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disappears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.

Author : David Dutkanicz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486171678

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A First Book of Ragtime by David Dutkanicz Pdf

These rollicking, easy-to-play ragtime favorites include "Maple Leaf Rag," "The Entertainer," "Tiger Rag," and other melodies by such favorites as Scott Joplin, James Scott, Joseph Lamb, and Eubie Blake. All songs available as downloadable MP3s.

Author : Eric Bronson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0988829002

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King of Rags by Eric Bronson Pdf

When music publisher John Stark first heard Scott Joplin play his piano he knew that ragtime was the music of hope for a new America. "If you are alive to impulse, you felt the ground wave under your feet, and you dropped into sublime reverie," he wrote in 1904. But neither Stark nor anyone else knew that Joplin would never be content with popularity and fame. Inspired by Booker T. Washington and the Dahomeyan defeat in West Africa, Joplin committed himself to racial justice fifty years before his time. But due to this earnest pursuit, he was later ignored by the masses for writing political music, and shunned by a new generation of artists for championing a life in rags. In King of Rags, Eric Bronson shines a lyrical light on the tragic life of Scott Joplin and his fellow ragtime musicians throughout their frantic transformation of the seedy and segregated underbelly of comedians, conmen and prostitutes who called America¿s most vibrant cities home.

Author : Stephen Costanza
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781466808614

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Vivaldi and the Invisible Orchestra by Stephen Costanza Pdf

Every day, Antonio Vivaldi composes a new orchestral piece, and every day, the orphan Candida transcribes Vivaldi's masterpiece into sheet music for the Invisible Orchestra. Nobody notices Candida or appreciates her hard work. But one day Candida accidentally slips a poem she wrote into the sheet music and the girl so often behind the shadows gets recognized for her own talents. Vivaldi really did have an Invisible Orchestra made up of orphan girls he taught to play. This beautiful book pays tribute to their inspiration.

Author : Edward A. Berlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199740321

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King of Ragtime by Edward A. Berlin Pdf

This book tells the first story of the life and works for Scott Joplin. In its expanded second edition, the book goes far beyond the original publication in uncovering details of the composer's life and insights into his music.

Author : Peter Gammond
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1977-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0312704909

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Scott Joplin and the ragtime era by Peter Gammond Pdf

Recounts the life and times of the now-legendary pianist and ragtime composer and explores the roots, development, and influence of the musical form in which he excelled.

Author : Russell Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Composers
ISBN : 1612282733

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Scott Joplin by Russell Roberts Pdf

Profiles the life and career of the King of Ragtime, Scott Joplin.