Rags and Ragtime: A Musical History (Dover Books on Music)
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (813 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486259226 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
missaitch said Very good!. Clean, impressive looking book. Arrived in record time. Very good!. An informative and easy reading book Bruce P Schuck I believe this book was first published in 1978 by Seabury Press. I still have an old hardcover edition, as it was the textbook for a music history class taught by David Jasen at C.W. Post College in the early 1980s. An informative and easy reading book, if you're a fan of early American music, it should be on your bookshelf.. A bible for ragtime pieces. This old book is a perfect listeners' guide of ragtime music. It contains some synthetic historical introductions at the beginning of each chapter and then goes on describing almost every single ragtime piece ever written.It was a very good source for a thesis I made on ragtime and would recommend it especially for people who want to appreciate this music
In addition, 800 important rags are profiled, most of them bearing the carefree titles that were part of the tradition, titles like "Canned Corn Rag," "Bantam Step," "Too Much Raspberry," "Ragging the Scale," and "Red Onion Rag." Each profile includes date of publication, original publisher, a discography, and a commentary of the unique character and appeal of each rag.Over 100 photographs, many of them rare, illuminate this lively chronicle, along with reproductions of original sheet music and many other items of interest from the authors' personal archives."Jasen and Tichenor have no peers in ragtime knowledge.They are the two unchallengeable authorities in the field of ragtime history, personalities, and musical forms." — The Classic Rag."A combination encyclopedia/biography/history/analysis and review, it teems with what would appear to be everything the ra