Ragtime was included in the dance styles of Vernon and Irene Castle, and influenced the English ballroom dances, the foxtrot and the quickstep. Ragtime influenced classical composers including Erik Satie, Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky. Ragtime (with Joplin's work in the forefront) has been cited as an American equivalent of minuets by Mozart, mazurkas by Chopin, or waltzes by Brahms. Subsequently, the film's rendering of Joplin's 1902 rag The Entertainer was a Top 5 hit in 1974. In 1973, the motion picture The Sting brought ragtime to a wide audience with its soundtrack of Joplin tunes. In 1971 Joshua Rifkin brought out a compilation of Scott Joplin's work which was nominated for a Grammy Award.

A more significant revival occurred in the 1950s as a wider variety of ragtime styles of the past were made available on records, and new rags were composed, published, and recorded. First, in the early 1940s many jazz bands began to include ragtime in their repertoire and put out ragtime recordings on 78 rpm records. Ragtime fell out of favor as jazz claimed the public's imagination after 1917, but there have been numerous revivals since. For at least 12 years after its publication, the Maple Leaf Rag heavily influenced subsequent ragtime composers with its melody lines, harmonic progressions or metric patterns. The ragtime composer Scott Joplin became famous through the publication in 1899 of the Maple Leaf Rag and a string of ragtime hits that followed. Ragtime was a modification of the march made popular by John Philip Sousa, with additional polyrhythms typical of African music. Louis and New Orleans years before being published as popular sheet music for piano. It began as dance music in the red-light districts of American cities such as St. Its main characteristic trait is its syncopated, or 'ragged', rhythm. Ragtime (or rag-time) is a musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity between 18. However, the work offered opportunities for dancers to let loose'.Second edition cover of 'Maple Leaf Rag.' It is one of the most famous rags. In 2003 DanceView commented, ' Elite's humor is broad and the choreography simple minded. The reviewers in The Times and The Observer found the piece vulgar and unstylish, but Dance and Dancers thought it 'cheerfully diverting' with 'some of the Royal Ballet’s best and most distinctive principals displaying new facets of their artistry in the choreography MacMillan devised for them.' When the piece was presented in New York in 1976, The New York Times gave it enthusiastic praise, and it has remained popular with audiences. The ballet was premiered in Covent Garden on 7 October 1974: The principal roles were danced by:

' Bethena: a Concert Waltz' (1905) – Scott Joplin.

'The Alaskan Rag' (posthumously published) – Joseph F.

'The Golden Hours' (1966) – Max Morath (b.

'Ragtime Nightingale' (1914) – Joseph F.

'The Cascades' (1904) – Scott Joplin, arr.

' Elite Syncopations' (1902) – Scott Joplin.

MacMillan added some additional ragtime tunes to complete his ballet: Paul Pratt's Hot-house Rag and James Scott's Calliope Rag for piano Joseph Francis Lamb's Ragtime Nightingale orchestra and Alaskan Rag for piano Max Morath's The Golden Hours for piano Donald Ashwander's Friday Night and Robert Hampton's Cataract Rag for orchestra. Joplin also wrote a ballet called The Ragtime Dance (performed in 1899) as well as two operas, only one of which survived, called 'Treemonisha' (1902). The centrepiece was composed by Scott Joplin. The 'Classic' ragtime composers represented in the production are: Scott Joplin, Scott Hayden, Joseph F. The piece entered the repertory of Birmingham Royal Ballet on 10 February 1978 at Sadler's Wells Theatre. Ī BBC film of Elite Syncopations was also made in 1975 and danced by The Royal Ballet's original cast, in Battersea's Big Top. The band, also 12-strong, sit casually at the back of the stage playing while the dancers perform in front of them, adding to the 1920s party-like atmosphere. It is described as having an up-beat, hip swinging aura of spontaneity, with 'easygoing rhythms'. The piece was premiered by The Royal Ballet on 7 October 1974 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with costume designs by Ian Spurling, lighting designs by John B. Elite Syncopations is a one-act ballet created in 1974 by Kenneth MacMillan for The Royal Ballet.

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