Sound, Music & MIDI Collection 2/SMMVOL2.bin/DEMO/PRG/RAGTIME.ZIP/RPTRIVI0.TXT

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@001 What is a 'Scotch snap' ?
\*a rhythmic pattern
\an accompanying finger snapping to a rag
\a dance
\a young white male
^This rhythmic pattern made up of a sixteenth note followed by a dotted
eighth note, was common in the Baroque era as well as in American jigs.
It has been suggested that the basic Ragtime Rhythm evolved from it.
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@002 Other than the piano what was the next popular Ragtime instrument ?
\the organ
\the flute
\*the banjo
\the saxophone
^Greatly overshadowed by the piano, the banjo played a very significant
  role in Ragtime none the less.
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@003 Approximately how long was the Ragtime era ?
\15 years
\*two decades
\one decade
\three decades
^Lasting from about 1900 to 1920, the Ragtime era gave the world its
  first truly American music.
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@004 The full version of Ragtime Pianist includes 170 Trivia Questions
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@005 In 1901 what important musical organization voted to suppress Ragtime  ?
\* the American Federation of Musicians
\the Society of European conductors
\Royal Philharmonic Society of London
\none of the above
^Ragtime created such a furor that musicians took sides to debate its legitimacy.
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