The most popular music back then was called ragtime. Duke listened to ragtime piano players who visited Washington.

那时最流行的音乐是繁音拍子。公爵听着那些来访华盛顿的繁音拍子钢琴演奏家的演奏。

Then she swaggered into Johnsy's room with her drawing board, whistling ragtime.

后来她手里拿着画板，装做精神抖擞的样子走进琼西的屋子，嘴里吹着爵士音乐调子。

It grew out of the blues songs and ragtime music that had been popular at the turn of the century.

它源于世纪之交流行的布鲁斯歌曲和格泰姆音乐。

He's especially famous for writing ragtime music for the piano.

他以为钢琴创作格泰姆音乐而闻名。

Well, ragtime has a very strong rhythm or beat.

嗯，格泰姆有很强的节奏或节拍。

" Did you ever hear such perfect ragtime? I just can't make my shoulders behave when I hear that" .

“你有没有听过如此完美的格泰姆音乐？当我听到它时， 我就是无法让我的肩膀表现出来” 。

You will be known during your fifteen years as a ragtime kid, a flapper, a jazz-baby, and a baby vamp.

在你的 15 年里， 你将以格泰姆小子、插板手、爵士乐宝贝和婴鬼而闻名。

He had hoped his longtime business partner John Stark would publish it, but he refused. Stark did not think a ragtime opera would sell.

乔普林曾希望自己的长期合作伙伴约翰·史塔克会发表她，但是史塔克拒绝了，他觉得格泰姆歌剧不会畅销。

Another popular ragtime song, perhaps the most popular song today of his repertoire – of his compositions is The Entertainer.

另一首流行的格泰姆歌曲，也许是他今天曲目中最受欢迎的歌曲 - 他的作品是艺人。

Eventually, Joplin began writing and producing operas in addition to the rags or ragtime songs that he was so well known for.

最终，乔普林开始创作和制作歌剧， 除了他广为人知的 rags 或格泰姆歌曲。

Scott Joplin's early piano lessons did not include ragtime. That kind of music was played in dance and drinking places and was not considered acceptable.

斯科特·乔普林早期学习的钢琴课不包括格泰姆。这种音乐是在跳舞和喝酒的地方播放的，它被认为是不可接受的。

In any case, ragtime started its popularity in some of the towns that had large African American populations such as St.

无论如何，格泰姆音乐开始在一些拥有大量非裔美国人人口的城镇流行起来， 例如圣路易斯。

After the 1920s ragtime music was largely, or mostly forgotten in the U.S. It came back in the 1970s with the movie The Sting.

1920 年代后，格泰姆音乐在美国基本上或大部分被遗忘。它在 1970 年代随着电影 The Sting 回归。

From 1880 to World War I, New Orleans with its cafe and night club society became host to a new form of music based mostly on the blues, but also on marches and ragtime music.

从公元1880年到第一次世界大战期间，新奥尔良的社会充斥着餐厅和夜总会，成了一种新音乐风格的大本营，这种乐风大体上以布鲁斯为基础，也融合了进行曲和切分音节奏的乐曲。