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Ragtime   /rˈægtˌaɪm/   Listen
Ragtime

noun
1.
Music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano).  Synonym: rag.






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"Ragtime" Quotes from Famous Books



... music; he may be able to converse with some correctness about classic music; he may even honestly believe that these traits constitute his own musical standards. But if in his own past experience, what he has been most accustomed to and has most enjoyed is ragtime, his active or working measures of valuation are fixed on the ragtime level. The appeal actually made to him in his own personal realization fixes his attitude much more deeply than what he has been taught as the proper thing to say; ...
— Democracy and Education • John Dewey

... band was playing a ragtime tune when they entered the restaurant. To Esther's unaccustomed eyes the room with its flowers and many lights was the most wonderful place she had ever seen. She kept close to Micky as he threaded his way through ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres

... exalted, feverish, apparently possessed by some high secret; her eyes shone, and when she crossed the room she whistled bars of ragtime and executed mincing steps of the maxixe. Fumbling in the upper drawer for a pair of white gloves (also new), she knocked off the corner of the bureau her velvet bag; it opened as it struck the ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill



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