Indiana was the hub of a Midwestern branch of this style led by classically-trained Black women like May Aufderheide and Julia Lee Niebergall. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this style of highly-syncopated piano music that began in St. Louis with pieces like “The Entertainer.”
ANSWER: ragtime
[10m] This composer wrote rags like “Grace and Beauty” and “Frog Legs Rag” after visiting his idol Scott Joplin in St. Louis, a journey akin to J. S. Bach’s much earlier Lübeck pilgrimage. He, Joplin, and Joseph Lamb are ragtime’s “Big Three.”
ANSWER: James Scott [or James Sylvester Scott]
[10h] Pieces in this offshoot rag style were often sold on piano rolls due to their excessive complexity. Zez Confrey’s “Dizzy Fingers” and Arthur Schutt’s “Bluin’ the Black Keys” exemplify this style.
ANSWER: novelty piano [or novelty rag; reject word forms such as “novel”]
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