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- Do you think that Scott Joplin improved or damaged ragtime by turning it from an improvised style to a written piano music?
I wouldn’t necessarily say that Scott Joplin improved ragtime by writing his tunes down, but I would say that he improved American music as a whole by writing his tunes down. There have always been and will always be elitists and gatekeepers within musical traditions and genres that don’t want their traditions to change. However, it can be these breaks in tradition that push the medium forward.
Traditionally, ragtime was a style of playing that was almost entirely improvised. Musicians would learn ragtime playing from other musicians performing together on boats going up and down the Mississippi River. Players would improvised different strains of popular melodies and put their own flourishes and styling into it. It had a spontaneous quality that mystified listeners.
Once it was written down, it lost it’s improvised and unpredictable spark, but it gave everyone who bought the sheet music the ability to crack the code of what ragtime was. People at home could play basic ragtime tunes from the comfort of their homes. It allowed for many more performances of the ragtime music, even if it was a little more rigid, structured, amd watered down. This allowed for more people to hear and be influenced by the music and America got to produce one of it’s first truly American art forms. This pushed further into jazz, rock and roll, hip hop, and more.
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