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Syncopated pieces
Answer for the clue "Syncopated pieces ", 7 letters:
ragtime
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Word definitions for ragtime in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.\n\nIf rag-time was called ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano) [syn: rag ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ragtime (I) is the second of three ballets made by New York City Ballet 's co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Igor Stravinsky 's 1918 Ragtime for Eleven Instruments ; with scenery by Robert Drew previously used for Lew Christensen 's 1947 ...
Usage examples of ragtime.
And at a music store where Bonny downloads Gershwin remixes into her palmphone, Katelyn downloads ragtime standards, Scott Joplin, Irving Berlin.
Five bands were playing five different types of music, ragtime, dixieland, hot jazz, cool jazz and spirituals.
Five bands were playing five different types of music, ragtime, Dixie-land, hot jazz, cool jazz and spirituals.
And in what may seem to us a surprisingly short amount of time, but does not to Chipper Maxton, who understands that very few people wish to linger in an elder-care facility any longer than they must, the relatives bestow their final hugs and kisses, round up the exhausted kiddies, and file down the paths and over the grass into the parking lot, along the way a good number depositing bills in the basket atop Ragtime Willie's upright piano.
According to his story, he was there to visit the Chautauqua Music Fest and also the Niwot Ragtime Festival.
Mike also has a degree in Piano and enjoys playing Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, Chopin, and ragtime, and listening to Requiems, Sacred Masses for the Dead.
They could visualize her libraries stacked with books, her smoking rooms filled with the blue haze of gentlemen's cigars, and hear the music of her band playing turn-of-the-century ragtime.