Modartt user forum - ragtime!

Re: ragtime!

null@example.com (custral) — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:13:32 +0000

True though that be, the Joplin rags will have been played on a zillion uprights, often very well.

And speaking of well-played Joplin, here's Perfessor Bill Edwards site. Comprehensive.

Re: ragtime!

null@example.com (doug) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:07:47 +0000

Mabry's right. Scott Joplin would have been horrified by the hokey imitations of his music that were popularized as ragtime in the middle 20th century. Given a choice, he would likely have chosen one of the more refined models and settings.

Re: ragtime!

null@example.com (mabry) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:43:09 +0000

dalrmi wrote:

Hi, playing ragtime music (Scott Joplin!) which instrument and which preset should be used ?
Honky tonky ?
Thank you.

To quote Wikipedia:
"As a composer Joplin refined ragtime, elevating it above the low and unrefined form played by the 'wandering honky-tonk pianists'... Joplin wrote his rags as 'classical' music in miniature form in order to raise ragtime above its 'cheap bordello' origins and produced work which opera historian Elise Kirk described as '... more tuneful, contrapuntal, infectious, and harmonically colorful than any others of his era.'[15]"

I suggest that any honky tonk setting be used only as a novelty. For best results, I would use one of the more refined presets of D4 or Bluthner.

Re: ragtime!

null@example.com (dalrmi) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:51:31 +0000

Ah! Unfortunately I own the Pianoteq stage version and as I know it doesn't have the unison slider, am I right ?

About velocity curve actually I have this:

How should I change it ?

Thank you for your suggestions...

Re: ragtime!

null@example.com (Beto-Music) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:46:32 +0000

Reduce a bit the unison slider, and reduce a bit the velocity curve .

dalrmi wrote:

I find "D4 Honky Tonk" as instrument on Pianoteq, could I start with this ?
What do you mean exactly for "50% of Honk Tonk" ?

Re: ragtime!

null@example.com (dalrmi) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:36:43 +0000

I find "D4 Honky Tonk" as instrument on Pianoteq, could I start with this ?

What do you mean exactly for "50% of Honk Tonk" ?

Re: ragtime!

null@example.com (Beto-Music) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:12:10 +0000

I would say 50% of honky tonk tuning and some aged (condition slider) effect.

Don't forget Maple Leaf.

;-)

ragtime!

null@example.com (dalrmi) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:37:41 +0000

Hi, playing ragtime music (Scott Joplin!) which instrument and which preset should be used ?

Honky tonky ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olh8unzpHog

Thank you.