"Top Liner" Rag (Joseph F. Lamb)

In its heyday from 1895 to 1918, the syncopated rhythms and sophisticated melodies of ragtime music conquered the world and influenced many "serious" composers, including Erik Satie, Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky. Here Joseph Lamb proves that ragtime was capable of lyric beauty as well as danceable rhythms.

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