ragtime

• n. ポリフォニック?ビート（ポリシンコペーションのリズムを持つ初期のジャズの一種）
• adj.面白い；深刻ではない

音楽用語のシンコペーション（syncopation）、タイム（time）、ビート（beat）に使われる、ラグ（rag）、ボロ（rag）、ティア（tear）からのラグタイム（ragtime）の略。

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.

ジャズ楽曲は、絶望的な独歩ダンスのように壊れた、悲しいリズムを出している。

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

その時最もポピュラーだった音楽はラグタイム音楽だった。

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

アフリカ系アメリカ人ピアニストScottJoplinはラグタイムの曲をたくさん書いた。

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

ビートミュージックはピアノ?ソロの音楽形式である。

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

ラグタイム音楽とマーチングバンド音楽の要素を組み合わせた曲です。