# Can anyone ID this (ragtime?) music, from sheet music? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 4, 2014, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-ragtime-music-from-sheet-music/687610 "2014-05-04T01:37:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-ragtime-music-from-sheet-music/687610/21 "2014-05-07T15:40:46Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > ThelmaLou…you…are…so…BAD! What would Deputy Fife say? 😃 A pan of my cashew fudge and he is putty in my hands. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-ragtime-music-from-sheet-music/687610/22 "2014-05-07T19:39:29Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Cripes! Johnny L.A., you whooshed me big time–I bow to the master. 🙂 Thank you. Indeed, I was talking about [‘flying Bravo’](http://vintageyachtstore.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=53) (Or ‘flying Baker’, as dad used to say.) ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-ragtime-music-from-sheet-music/687610/23 "2014-05-07T20:06:56Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > (My Chrome is loading the song up fine. It’s just a soundcloud link.) Nevertheless, [My Chrome doesn’t like it.](http://doorbell.net/junk/cannot_connect_soundcloud.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-ragtime-music-from-sheet-music/687610/24 "2014-05-07T21:02:48Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Never heard it before but, my word, you can play a bit can’t you? I kept listening all the way to the end although I had no idea what it is. > [@pulykamell](#): > > The song was input note-by-note (sequenced) into the computer, not actually played live. > [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > I was talking to the computer. GRIN! I don’t know the word “sequenced” in this context, but, yeah, that’s what I did. (I use the “Mozart Virtuoso” music processing program.) Putting music in, note by note, is therapeutic for us obsessive-compulsive types! > [@Musicat](#): > > Chrome is refusing to load that page due to malware detection. Yikes! I used Mozart Virtuoso to export a midi file, and a free midi to mp3 converter (doesn’t even have the programmer’s name attributed to it!) and then uploaded. If mp3 files can carry malware, then it’s always possible something trojan-horsed its way in during all this process. I just scanned the file (my entire music directory, actually) using AVG, and it reported no infections. I think I’m doing due diligence in using AVG as my normal antivirus program. Anyway… It isn’t the most inspiring ragtime piece ever. It plays some odd games with sharps and flats, which sometimes sound a bit sour to me. It’s no “Maple Leaf Rag.” ([One of my very favorites is “Brass Knuckles” by William Bolcum and William Albright](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMF822YXCTs). Among the instructions to the pianist are “Brutal! Loutish! Dust your Knuckles!” This piece, too, plays odd games with scattered sharps and flats. Is this a ragtime thing?) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-ragtime-music-from-sheet-music/687610.md?page=1)