(13) Ragtime is one of the ancestors of jazz. (14) It was popular from the 1890s until the end of the First World War. (15) In ragtime music, melodies are syncopated. (16) The style derived from street bands in New Orleans, St. Louis, and Memphis. (17) It was related to a popular dance at the turn of the century called the “cakewalk.” (18) Scott Joplin is probably the best-known of the ragtime composers. (19) Maple Leaf Rag is still played regularly today. (20) Hey, wasn’t that one of our school band’s songs? (21) Scott Joplin actually wrote a ragtime opera called A Guest of Honor. (22) Have y

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