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♦NUMBER 31turone orlie sea ofyou want r!o of the (1 the ora-by Moses, lab led on 3gel. with one hun-und whoL’here are kiss you. altin^ to You have ? door on 1 the door icr. YouIk In thegrave. I he grave.I the loii}* itrers let r through 1 for this will have » lone Into come V’lth longRAGTIME FROM WAGNEA l*lt;» In 1**1 rf From 1ornrl, Ilei \t-n mnd Other (ir««t M««ferRagtime !.ns Wen given Its rath F. W Root. musical authority, says It Wars the same relation I great thing- of the musical world Mother Goose's melodies do to the terpieccM of the world's liter* While criticising this lowly htu tremely popular sort of uiuslc. Root says it came from the great t true of the earth. Wagner lapsed It tuuch after the manner of statei who sometimes get tired and dro to versification. Mozart also bad meats of fatigue or exuberance \ he dashed off a few notes In the 11 tire of tiie cake walk melody.Some of the great litterateurs written along the mental altitud Mother Goose, says Mr. Root, an have Racli and Beethoven yielde the Impulse to put their lofty thou into sharps and fiats that would bt predated In Halated street 1 would uot do away with rag music. said Mr. Root. Mlf some should ask me If 1 would blot out M er Goose’s rhymes. I would say uu Itatlngly I would uot do It Mo Goose is a good thing In its way; 1 ragtime.To make the matter plain, ragi Is syncopation. All of the great r ters have employed syncopated nlt; That Is all right, or the masters wlt; not have done 1L But they did write nil of their works in syno tlon. That shows that syncopatlo good for awhile, but we do not w too much of It“Now. Mother Goose’s literature good thing, but suppose you bad n ing else to rend, You would soon tired of It after awhile.”What would you suggest be d about It? he was asked.Let It alone. The people who ilk right [ I; may learn after awhile to like so thing else better.*'What objection lies against ragtmusic 7It Is a repetition of the same thl that's all. There Is nothing else In world the matter with It As I said it were not a good thing the mast would noT have used ItAmong many oddities of ragtime example of Us effect may be seen In more I §ettlng of Old Hundredth to t measure.There Is no such thing as good c y voted slc or ,(ml mus|C •• professor Ei Mir. At j L|t.p||ng “You may set good musicone!, at pQ(, or V|C|0U5 wordings and the mu utenant | becomes bad by Implication. So w ' ral J ragtime. It Is now lending Itselfper.essloo ofThe enabling ofusers, aold way iruahlDg,r door of lit* start-jpped by said to now youlrlcod.y.ed In to-n»ssinanthe hall ed after ruing to I: Say. 'ter thaty thing.main ofmember the de*
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Richmond Daily Dispatch
Richmond, Virginia, US
Mon, Oct 21, 1867
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