The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-23

agrees with her as to all cities being in
the category.
-RaEtimc. said Mr. Brooke, is now
the most generally moOted of ali themes
among musicians. bet why such subject
should threaten to disrupt the chicago
Federation OF Musicians is rather dllh-
cult 10 understand when considered from
an intelligent and unprcjudlced stand
point During the last year there nave
been published countless articles on rag
time. written by prominent musicians.
teachers ana critics many OF whom had
something 10 say about VINO discovered
or invented it. Ragtime was not dis
covered or invented by any one HarNln
saws music was known and understood
before words We're spoken, and l believe
that raEtime existed in the lower AM
mails LONG before the advent OF man IL
is simply rhythm or intensified rhythm,
and / have frequently observed animals
KEEPING time 60 music having strong
marked RHYTHM
Rhythm is the skeleton on which al
music is huns, and IT sou VIII strip the
so-ca-4ed modern ragJllnt OF us melodles
YOU VIII have She music that mas been IN
vogue since the beginning OF time and
that still Is the only music of many OF
the heather races. Il IS the JuDer. DUCK
and wing dance of the old plantation
dgrky. and no more inspiring rdgtlme
was ever PLAYED than that which he pat
ted with his hands, Shufted with ms
feet or plunkcd on his rudCly constructed
banjo. All the OlC-time uddleTS were
rgS-ime performers 7 he backwcods
PLAYER who sat perched cu-a barrel I'm
corner az q corn huSking bee. who held
his fiddle AT his elbow and his bow AT
haH-mast, PLAYED the 'ArEansaW Travel
en- and Up Duck creek in style that
would put to shame many OF the fellows
who claim TO have originated what they
are pleased TO cali 'ragtlme-
"Drummers have played nothing but
rtEtimc since the invention of the drum.
The bass drum is now used only TO
punctuate or emprasiZe the heavy beats
. cor pulse of the music. but I'm the original
. 'sl51pslln band -fat has furnished mar
tial music Tor OIT soldiers I'm times OF
. war for centuries the bass drummer used
striCk in each hand and helped ont the
raslime rhythm of the snare drum
"Elo has not stood ON a curbstone-
watching q passing parade, and noticed
how Wesr1iy Tie men IN line Fiol1tG
along 90 the moGotunaus l-l-l---5 of the
bass drum. But when the snare drums
hrone into their merry raSUme beats OF
E 'tst-t tat-a-tat how TN u@r-hcrs tmmc-
diateiy bIaCcd mp and walked with q
hU0yaDt. elastic step. According 60 good
authority. the sense of rhythm Us EEcater
. hy gS per cent than eithe- Che sense of
+ harmony 81 mc-o-F- to1sei aenll,- ans
march with strong rhythmic accent. or
/ % raEtime song With its intensified
rhythm. appeals more intensely to the
+ ErearCr mankind
'T have often been asked. Why DO you
/ play So u,--h raCtime at your concerts
and 3 aiWays reply that rlEtimc music
. is what I- most demanded. AMI that my
] mission iS 10 piease-Uot Co CFICate-tEc
+ masses 1t IS not 81 crime o. aCknnwl-
+ edge that you enjoy ia EtiTue. All the
Z OH masters wrote raEtime. and thar great
4 poet and wizard Of harmony. Richard
/ Wagner. was past master at H. it Is "a
I Wei known tact that the themes for
B many of our most popular ragtime songs