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1. Ragtime
   A piano style that evolved in the USA during the early 20th Century. Ragtime is a mixture of Afro-American and European influence, and was one of the most important precursors for jazz. Think Scott Joplin.
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2. ragtime
   [n] - music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)
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3. Ragtime
   Rag'time` noun (Mus.) Time characterized by syncopation, as in many negro melodies. [ Colloq.]
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4. ragtime
   noun music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)
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5. Ragtime
   • (n.) Time characterized by syncopation, as in many negro melodies.
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6. ragtime
   propulsively syncopated musical style, one forerunner of jazz and the predominant style of American popular music from about 1899 to 1917. Ragtime ... [4 related articles]
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7. Ragtime
   Ragtime is a style of musical time characterised by syncopation, and common in many Negro melodies.
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8. Ragtime
   Ragtime is slang for disorderly; disreputable.
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9. Ragtime
   Ragtime is slang for disorderly; disreputable.
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10. ragtime
    ragtime: see jazz.
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11. ragtime
    Syncopated music (`ragged time`) in 2/4 rhythm, usually played on piano. It developed in the USA among black musicians in the late 19th century; it was influenced by folk tradition, minstrel shows, and marching bands, and was later incorporated into jazz. Scott Joplin was a leading writer of ragtime pieces, called `rags`
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12. Ragtime
    Its main characteristic trait is its syncopation|syncopated, or "ragged," rhythm.<ref name="Berlin"/> It began as dance music in the red-light districts of American cities such as St. Louis and New Orleans years before being published as popular sheet music for piano.<ref n...
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13. Ragtime
    (film) `Ragtime` is a 1981 American film based on the historical novel Ragtime (1975) by E. L. Doctorow. The action takes place in and around New York City, New Rochelle, and Atlantic City in the first decade of the 1900s, and includes fictionalized references to actual people a...
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14. Ragtime
    (novel) `Ragtime` is a 1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow. This work of historical fiction is primarily set in the New York City area from about 1900 until the United States entry into World War I in 1917. A unique adaptation of the historical narrative genre, the novel blends three fictiona...
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15. Ragtime
    (musical) `Ragtime` is a musical with a book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and music by Stephen Flaherty. Based on the 1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime tells the story of three groups in America, represented by Coalhouse Walker Jr., a Harlem musician; Mother, ...
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16. RagTime
    (computer program) `RagTime` is a computer program primarily used for desktop publishing. The software combines spreadsheet features with word processing and embedded multimedia. Documents created with RagTime can combine within a single file multilingual word processing, spreadsheets, graphi...
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17. Ragtime
    (TV series) `Ragtime` was a children`s television series presented by Maggie Henderson and Fred Harris. The programmes featured play with words, songs, stories and puppets. Puppets emerged from the green Ragtime Bag, including wooden spoons with faces drawn on them. These were named Mr...
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18. Ragtime
    (II) `Ragtime (II)` is the third ballet made by New York City Ballet`s co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Igor Stravinsky`s Ragtime for Eleven Instruments (1918). The premiere took place on July 15, 1966, at Philharmonic Hall, New York. The first City Ballet perfor...
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19. Ragtime
    (I) `Ragtime (I)` is the second of three ballets made by New York City Ballet`s co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Igor Stravinsky`s 1918 Ragtime for Eleven Instruments; with scenery by Robert Drew previously used for Lew Christensen`s 1947 work for Ballet Society,...
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