Style recipe for Suno v5

Ragtime

Ragtime piano from the 1900s: syncopated right hand, stride left hand, honky tonk piano, playful and nostalgic in feel. A name-free Suno recipe that reproduces the signature sound without tripping the artist-name filter.

History

Ragtime came out of African American communities in the late 19th century, and its composed form of the 1890s grew up in the Mississippi Valley, St. Louis above all, in saloons, brothels and house parties. The name probably goes back to plantation dances called rags; vaudeville pianist Ben Harney was the first on record to use the word, in 1896, a year after he published the earliest known rag in Louisville. The recipe is a march knocked off balance: a steady left-hand bass under a syncopated, ragged right-hand melody, spread over several themes and sold as sheet music and piano rolls. Scott Joplin, the King of Ragtime, made his name with Maple Leaf Rag (1899) and The Entertainer (1902). In 1913 Joplin said ragtime had existed in America as long as Black people had been there, but white people noticed it only about twenty years earlier. The style fed early jazz, Harlem stride and Piedmont blues and caught the ear of Debussy, Satie and Stravinsky, whose Ragtime of 1918 is scored for eleven instruments. Jazz pushed it aside in the 1920s, yet it returned in the 1970s when Joplin's pieces were adapted for the film The Sting.

The recipe

Ragtime piano, 1900s, playful, nostalgic…

Built from 32 tags across 582 characters, this 1900s style runs at 90–130 BPM with an instrumental vocal delivery.

Artists in this style

• Scott Joplin
• Jelly Roll Morton
• Blind Blake
• Eubie Blake
• Joshua Rifkin
• William Bolcom
• James Scott
• Joseph Lamb
• Johnny Maddox
• Max Morath

Similar styles

• Ragtime Blues1920s · 90–130 BPM
• Country Blues Ragtime1920s · 90–130 BPM
• New Orleans Jazz1920s · 120–200 BPM
• Hot Jazz1920s · 140–220 BPM
• Stride Piano1930s · 140–220 BPM
• Honky-Tonk1950s · 100–140 BPM
• Spirituals1900s · 60–100 BPM
• Jazz Rock1970s · 110–160 BPM