![]() ![]() Even if you cannot read music, you can see how the dots are different for each hand. I love watching this video of the player piano roll. He was 12 years old when he composed the “Charleston Rag” in 1899. “Philharmonie”, Berlin (Germany), November 4, 1972. Here’s Eubie Blake in this video performing his “Charleston Rag” at the He continued composing throughout his life and composed scores for Broadway as well as films. And by his 20s performed at the Goldfield Hotel in Baltimore, as well as at several clubs in Atlantic City. As a teenager he played piano in saloons. When his mother found him, the store manager said to her, “The child is a genius! It would be criminal to deprive him of the chance to make use of such a sublime, God-given talent.” So they found a way to afford a pump organ, and he began to play at home. While out shopping with his mother when he was 4 or 5, he wandered into a music store, climbed on the bench of an organ, and started “foolin’ around”. Blake’s parents were former slaves, and he was involved with music from a very young age. 7, 1887, Baltimore, MD, Eubie was an American pianist and composer of ragtime music, popular and vaudeville tunes, and scores for musical theater. His career spanned a time when music experiences vast changes. While his ragtime songs might not be super well known today, Eubie Blake was very well known throughout his life and on television throughout the 1970s. This piano roll was found in the wrong box on eBay apparently, and turned out to be a long lost Joplin recording. ![]() This video shows a piano roll that was actually recorded on piano roll by Scott Joplin himself. People would have player pianos in bars and homes. Before there were records, piano rolls were an easy way to get “recordings” or popular musicians playing their songs. Ragtime had was mostly forgotten until the major ragtime revival in the early 1970s, after Joplin’s songs were the soundtrack for the movie “The Sting.” Now you may hear it in commercials, TV shows and movies. For at least 12 years after its publication, “Maple Leaf Rag” heavily influenced subsequent ragtime composers with its melody lines, harmonic progressions or metric patterns. You have probably heard of Ragtime composer Scott Joplin (ca. Here are a few ragtime favorites that you should get to know. It gets its name from its syncopated or “ragged” rhythm. It enjoyed its peak popularity between 18. Ragtime brings together the polyrhythms (two rhythms played at the same time) of African music and the march beats made popular by John Philip Sousa. Ragtime is a fun one to get to know with your children. So much of American popular music comes from or has been influenced by African-American culture. ![]()
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