Ragtime music movie#

Scott Joplin “Sunflower Slow Drag” (1901)ġ6. Scott Joplin “Elite Syncopations” (1902)ġ4. Percy Wenrich “Peaches and Cream Rag” (1905): Len Spencer & Ada Jones, 1905ġ1. Irving Berlin “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (1911): Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan, 1911ġ0. James Scott “Climax Rag” (1913): Jelly Roll Morton, 1914ĩ. Johnson “Dill Pickles Rag” (1906): Arthur Pryor’s Band, 1910Ĩ. Harry DeCosta, Original Dixieland Jazz Band “Tiger Rag” (1918)ħ.Ĝharles L. Bowman “Twelfth Street Rag” (1916): Pee Wee Hunt, 1948Ħ. Scott Joplin “Maple Leaf Rag” (1899): Vess Ossman, 1907)ĥ.Ğuday L.

Ragtime music movie#

“The Entertainer,” as performed by Marvin Hamlisch in the 1973 movie ‘The Sting’ġ.

Note: click here to see other genre-specific song lists. I offer no apologies for such inclusions, as this list is meant to celebrate those tunes which introduced and shaped the craft as well as those which popularized the genre by integrating elements of ragtime. Ragtime purists will quibble with songs such as “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” that don’t adhere to strict definitions. When relevant, the performer(s) with the highest-ranked version of the song are listed in italics. As to how the songs are listed – first up are the songwriters, followed by the title of the song and the year the song was introduced. The top 50 songs were then sorted by the most points on the ragtime lists.

All songs appearing on 2+ lists were then sorted by overall DMDB points. Its primary characteristic is, according to, “its ragged – i.e., syncopated rhythm.” OM This was, as says, “usually in 2/4 time, over a regular, march tempo bass line.” PS The genre is significant as a predecessor to jazz.ġ6 lists were aggregated together (see sources at the bottom of the page). Ragtime music was a largely piano-based form of music which reached its widest widest popularity between the mid-1890s and World War I.