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rag·time    Audio Help   [rag-tahym] Pronunciation Key
–noun Music.
1.rhythm in which the accompaniment is strict two-four time and the melody, with improvised embellishments, is in steady syncopation.
2.a style of American music having this rhythm, popular from about 1890 to 1915.
[Origin: 1895–1900; prob. rag(ged) + time]

—Related forms
ragtimey, adjective
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–noun
a novel (1975) by E. L. Doctorow.
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rag·time    Audio Help   (rāg'tīm')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A style of jazz characterized by elaborately syncopated rhythm in the melody and a steadily accented accompaniment.


[From rag4.]

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ragtime 
"syncopated, jazzy piano music," 1897 (in song title "Mississippi Rag" by W.H. Krell), from rag "dance ball (1895, Amer.Eng. dialect), possibly a shortening of ragged, in reference to the rhythmic imbalance.

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ragtime

noun
music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano) 

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ragtime

A style of early jazz music written largely for the piano in the early twentieth century, characterized by jaunty rhythms and a whimsical mood.

Note: Scott Joplin was a famous composer and performer of ragtime.

[Chapter:] Fine Arts


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Ragtime

Rag"time`\, n. (Mus.) Time characterized by syncopation, as in many negro melodies. [Colloq.]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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