Inspiration, name-free
Joshua Rifkin
1970s classical ragtime revival from the 1970s: concert grand piano, deliberate march bass, clean singing treble, intimate and nostalgic in feel. A name-free Suno recipe that reproduces the signature sound without tripping the artist-name filter.
Style: Ragtime · Related styles: Ragtime Blues, Country Blues Ragtime, New Orleans Jazz, Hot Jazz
History
Joshua Rifkin is an American musicologist, conductor and pianist whose recordings helped start the ragtime revival of the 1970s. In 1970 Nonesuch released his Piano Rags by Scott Joplin, and the approach was unusual for the time: instead of the fast, jangly honky-tonk manner many people associated with ragtime, Rifkin played Joplin's rags at measured tempos on a concert piano, with clean articulation and attention to the written score, treating them as serious composed music. The album sold far beyond what a classical label expected and was followed by a second volume, and it played a large part in bringing Joplin back to public attention in the years before the film The Sting made "The Entertainer" famous again. Rifkin's background explains the style: he is a scholar of early and Baroque music, best known in that field for his argument that Bach's choral works were often sung with one voice per part, and he has led his own Bach Ensemble. His ragtime stands out for its calm, elegant pacing and almost chamber-music clarity.
The recipe
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