ragtime

英 ['r?gta?m] 美['r?ɡta?m]

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ragtime 雷格泰姆音樂

縮寫自 ragged time,來自 rag,破布，撕開，用于音樂術語切分，time,節拍。

ragtime (n.): also rag-time, "syncopated, jazzy piano music," 1897, perhaps from rag "dance ball" (1895, American English dialect), or a shortening of ragged, in reference to the syncopated melody. Rag (n.) "ragtime dance tune" is from 1899.
If rag-time was called tempo di raga or rague-temps it might win honor more speedily. ... What the derivation of the word is[,] I have not the faintest idea. The negroes call their clog-dancing "ragging" and the dance a "rag." [Rupert Hughes, Boston "Musical Record," April 1900]

Conceive the futility of trying to reduce the intangible ragness to a strict system of misbegotten grace notes and untimely rests! In attempting to perfect, and simplify, art is destroying the unhampered spirit in which consists the whole beauty of rag-time music. The very essence of rag-time is that it shall lack all art, depending for the spirit to be infused more upon the performer than upon the composer himself. ["Yale Literary Magazine," June, 1899]

Her first "rag-time" was "The Bully," in which she made great sport by bringing a little coloured boy on the stage with her. Miss [May] Irwin says the way to learn to sing "rag-time" is to catch a negro and study him. [Lewis C. Strang, "Famous Actresses of the Day in America," Boston, 1899]

1. The ragtime had a cracked, heartbroken rhythm as though it were a one - step of despair.: 爵士樂曲發出破碎、傷心的節奏,倒象是絕望的獨步舞曲.

3. African - American piano player Scott Joplin wrote many ragtime songs.: 非裔美國鋼琴家ScottJoplin寫了許多拉格泰姆歌曲.

5. This song combines musical elements from both Ragtime and march.: 這首歌結合了拉格泰姆音樂和進行曲樂隊音樂的要素.