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All ragtime synonyms

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noun ragtime

  • harmonized — Add notes to (a melody) to produce harmony.
  • classical — You use classical to describe something that is traditional in form, style, or content.
  • jazz — music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
  • dixieland — (sometimes lowercase) a style of jazz, originating in New Orleans, played by a small group of instruments, as trumpet, trombone, clarinet, piano, and drums, and marked by strongly accented four-four rhythm and vigorous, quasi-improvisational solos and ensembles.
  • music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
  • heavy metal — big iron
  • acoustic — An acoustic guitar or other instrument is one whose sound is produced without any electrical equipment.
  • jive — swing music or early jazz.
  • modern — of or relating to present and recent time; not ancient or remote: modern city life.
  • bebop — Bebop is a form of jazz music with complex harmonies and rhythms. The abbreviation bop is also used.
  • boogie — When you boogie, you dance to fast pop music.
  • harmonised — Simple past tense and past participle of harmonise.
  • boogie-woogie — a style of piano jazz using a dotted bass pattern, usually with eight notes in a bar and the harmonies of the 12-bar blues
  • instrumental — serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful.
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