• n. 繁音拍子（多切分節奏的一種早期爵士樂）
• adj. 滑稽的；不嚴肅的

縮寫自 ragged time,來自 rag,破布，撕開，用于音樂術語切分，time,節拍。

ragtime (n.)

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.

If rag-time was called tempo di raga or rague-temps it might win honor more speedily. ... What the derivation of the word is[,] I have not the faintest idea. The negroes call their clog-dancing "ragging" and the dance a "rag." [Rupert Hughes, Boston "Musical Record," April 1900]

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Conceive the futility of trying to reduce the intangible ragness to a strict system of misbegotten grace notes and untimely rests! In attempting to perfect, and simplify, art is destroying the unhampered spirit in which consists the whole beauty of rag-time music. The very essence of rag-time is that it shall lack all art, depending for the spirit to be infused more upon the performer than upon the composer himself. ["Yale Literary Magazine," June, 1899]

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Her first "rag-time" was "The Bully," in which she made great sport by bringing a little coloured boy on the stage with her. Miss [May] Irwin says the way to learn to sing "rag-time" is to catch a negro and study him. [Lewis C. Strang, "Famous Actresses of the Day in America," Boston, 1899]

1. The ragtime had a cracked, heartbroken rhythm as though it were a one - step of despair.

爵士樂曲發出破碎 、 傷心的節奏,倒象是絕望的獨步舞曲.

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2. The most popular music back then was called ragtime.

那時最流行的音樂叫拉格泰姆音樂.

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3. African - American piano player Scott Joplin wrote many ragtime songs.

非裔美國鋼琴家ScottJoplin寫了許多拉格泰姆歌曲.

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4. Ragtime is a kind of music played by a solo pianist.

散拍音樂是一種鋼琴獨奏的音樂形式.

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5. This song combines musical elements from both Ragtime and march.

這首歌結合了拉格泰姆音樂和進行曲樂隊音樂的要素.

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