Quarantine Rag - An Original Rag
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2020
- I'm very excited to share this with you - my first original rag! I would love to hear your feedback on it since this is my very first attempt at composing.
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When you've just had to ride through the scorching desert but the saloon is only allowing 3 patrons at a time.
What an Imagination. Lol.
Brilliant comment!!
Just turn on the AC when you ride through the desert.
@@tedmccarron My horse does not have AC.
@@arthurroberts491 I wasn't responding to you.
Quarantine Rag - could be a nice alternative to the term "mask" 😂
Ohh great wordplay. Love it.
a flannel mask for the influenza, please!
Good for confusing Karens
Very droll sir.
@@Marionettenfan 😂😂
I think Kristen Mosca was born for Ragtime. I never get tired of hearing her play.
Her name translates to "Kristen the Fly" in Spanish, but despite that, she's the best!
After Scott Joplin passed on ragtime music held its breath waiting for Kristen to come along.
FINALLY! Someone who likes to compose rag time! Please make more. There hasn't been enough of this genre for the last 100 years.
Seconded!
within the next 100 years, ragtime will be the new classical music.
It is not only about liking to compose in certain styles. I have had ideas for tunes and paintings, which I could not get out in any way for others to see or hear, as neither my playing nor my writing and painting skills are good enough.
Wasn't there like somebody in the 1970s who like composed new Ragtime songs? And I don't mean remixes or playing at different speeds.
@@statsgopher7604 I think it's classical already.
I really liked that it has an actual melody line and even followed the 19th century technique of including a minor section. It sounds older than it is.
Yeah, Im very suspicious that a young person would write something with the details of the lesser quality rags of the day but she always plays classic ragtime...hmmm
@@Datanditto ah yes, uncommon interests, how suspicious ;P
@@Datanditto What's suspicious about it? It's called stylistic composition. Anyone who has learned composition studies this.
I thought the same thing. It's so perfectly written in that mold.
I really enjoy hearing new music written in older styles and this was a good example. There wee contrasting melodic sections and a strain in a minor key adding interest to the general form. Kudos to the composer/performer. Keep working at it. I hope to hear more from you in the future:)
There's just something about ragtime piano. Makes you feel good no matter what you might be going thru. This young lady can bring it. Hats off to you dear! 👍🙂
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Sounds absolutely period accurate. Sounds like it could have been Joplin himself
That does NOT sound anything like Joplin. It sounds like one of 1000’s of simple bubble gum Tin Pan Alley wanna be rags with very simple motifs. There are hundreds on Colombia University Ragtime Archives which Ive downloaded and learned. This sounds like it was pieced together out of bits from those unknown/lessor known sub-quality rags.
@@Datanditto What does define the quality of a ragtime piece? How can I measure it objectively?
Felipe Álvarez something ‘The Maple Leaf Rag’ and ‘American Beauty’ are complex, rich in harmony. A tin pan alley rag like ‘Chocolate Drops’ or this rag is very simple and basic in its melody and harmony. That doesnt mean its not fun and pleasant but it sounds very period tin pan alley to me. Not of the classics as written by Joseph Lamb, James Scott, or Scott Joplin. This sounds lifted. Sorry.
I study and play rags so Im not just talking smack out of my pie hole to be a jerk.
@@Datanditto Thank you for the reply! I didn't know that. I like ragtime too, but I don't have that much knowledge about it. I'm thinking about dedicating one year or so just to study ragtime, since I play the piano and a I like it so much, I think it's a must for my musical training. So... if you could recommend me some book about it, I would be very thankful. If not, it's ok, thank you anyways
@@Datanditto Not really complex at all lol, you are all talk, shut up man.
Kristen, this is a truly remarkable achievement. I'm a lifelong lover of rags, who imbibes on the "intoxicating effects" of the syncopation and harmonies, and this gave me chills. You nailed it. You show you really get ragtime, not just as a performer. This piece follows the classic arrangement and style of ragtime, but it's fresh and original at the same time, and that bestows the most honor on the genre. Without your having copied any phrases directly, I still hear the energy of Swipesy, the sophistication of the Magnetic Rag, and the sheer joy of Felicity Rag. It's not just Joplin that would smile upon hearing this, but Hayden, Lamb, Marshall and Chauvin for sure.
I just love it. Scott Joplin is probably smiling at you from heaven, but it's hard to see as he's wearing the mask.
If Joplin is in Heaven, he wouldn't be wearing the mask. There's no more sorrow or illness up there. 😊
@@rebekahhesketh1220 *haven
Dimzay. Joplin is in heaven? Was he a Christian believer?
@@nelsoncheng4638 Yes he was!
@@icdroid That is recorded in his biographies? If so, good for him!
This really sounds like a classic ragtime piece! Great writing!
Teach us how to !
@@kevinchambers2327 I agree. She should teach us.
I think so too.
I think there's only one way - practice and then practice some more.
@@kevinchambers2327 Eat, Sleep and Live Ragtime and you will be able.
This is really excellent and very well played!
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I stupidly forgot the account password. I love any help you can offer me!
@Gage Adrien Instablaster ;)
@Benjamin Anders i really appreciate your reply. I got to the site through google and Im in the hacking process atm.
Seems to take a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@Benjamin Anders it worked and I now got access to my account again. I am so happy:D
Thanks so much, you really help me out :D
@Gage Adrien no problem xD
Nice Job! You channeled Joplin perfectly with your transitions and modulations. And yet, it did have you in it. Not easy to do! Keep up the good work!! Perfect early 1900's aura.
I can just see this as the background for a black and white silent short, chronicling the damned plague!! Well done as usual!!
Kristen, this is too beautiful for words. I purchased this a few weeks ago, and listen to it many times a day. As a musical artist and composer, you have expressed feelings about what we are going through, that is difficult to put into words. I see a great deal of musical metaphor in this composition. For example, your slower tempo, to me, represents how slowly our present situation, is taking to resolve itself. I love your use of minor mode in the trio, which is so appropriate for the many dark moments that we are living through now. But then, you have a recapitulation, that brings the piece back to where it started:. Joyful, hopeful, and bright. A good musical reminder that in the end, everything will be normal again. I know that Mr Joplin, Mr. Lamb, and Mr Scott would be happy to know that you have carried the ragtime torch well into the present century!
Congratulations on composing, and performing this excellent work!
Wow, thank you so much! 🥰
@@KristenMosca I'll second that. I don't have quite the technical musical knowledge of James and many other commenters here but I just know a beautifully catchy tune when I hear it. You have a genuine and very rare talent. As far as I'm concerned, this piece really does evoke genuine comparisons with the ragtime greats, even Joplin himself - it is as good and memorable as anything of his that I have heard, and moreso than many of them. Well done!
@@KristenMosca Say, Kristen, would you be willing to compose more rag time songs for a television show I'm creating?
@@KristenMosca Please compose more!! I literally love ragtime but I can't write music.
I just love that because of the internet, I can be a fan of 1900s ragtime, 1900 - 1950s jazz, and 40s cowboy music, and still find people on the internet making new stuff in the genres.
That's a real authentic-sounding first period rag. You've done everything right; from the opening intro right through to the closing theme. But what a closing theme that is! The unbridled lyricism reminiscent of the final theme of Joplin's The Easy Winners, and it's ingenious how you made the last eight bars different from the first eight. Very cle.ver. Makes for as enjoyable listening as anything Scott or Lamb ever
wrote. You should play it with complete convictilon
Wow, Jeremy. You sound like you know a LOT about old time rag music. I just enjoy the ‘sound’ of it. Happiest music on Earth. 😃
@@dennisnashville7114 Right, it's never sad!! :-) But the only reason or need for such knowledge is so that people such as yourself can have that enjoyment! I play piano and compose too. My stuff will be on youtube soon, around the end of the year,
@@dennisnashville7114 Very true !
@@jeremyrosen6492 what happened? Where’s your content?
@@dantep4966 Hopefully at the beginning of next year
There's that adorable archetype of the ragtime piano player who continues to play as a saloon-fight rages in the background and this feels similar.
It has a self-aware minor section but it's still light-hearted enough to be playing in the background of a reel with clips of the chaos rendered in sepia.
You know, I think I'd like this song
Even if there weren't a quarantine going on.
It's not a song - there are no vocals.
The playing is extraordinary enough, and that she WROTE it - mind blown.
Good to see young people preserving great American classical music
You should've had your dorky brother dancing in the background 😂 he's so cool 😎
Whenever I hear ragtime piano I imagine I am a cowboy in a saloon having a shot of whiskey waiting for a shootout or fight to break out.
vaccines vs. guns shootout
stay free!
Don't see many songwriters these days with original, fresh ideas. This was a breath of welcome fresh air. Thank you for your dedication to your craft and willingness to share it. I believe I speak for most here, we appreciate and love your content.
Oh, YOU are GIFTED and BLESSED for sure...w years ago, at age 66, I began taking piano lessons, learning how to read music, play piano. Im' now an accomplished pianist in my own house...and
I play a "mean" Hot Cross Bunns"...took me hours and hours of lern'an...LoL.... Wishing I could have taken piano lessons as a child when I begged and whimed...stopped when I left home, but working fll time, kids, life too busy!
...and now my self-imposed exile has a happy little theme song! Thank you Kristen. I really enjoy listening to you play. =)
Fantastic, love it and the brain it rode in on. This should still be played when covid is just another old entry in genome databases
I have a funny feeling you were practicing piano technique when your friends were wasting time on video-games, Kristen Mosca. I tip my hat to you for your self-discipline. You truly are a winner! :)
The young woman has talent and doesn't bother the eyes.
The moving from careful and uncertain (almost anxious), to slightly depressed with a minor flair really got me. Love you ending on a bright note (the switch to a major key at the end). I'm not especially versed in music theory, so forgive my ignorance of the terminology, but good work!
Everybody could see me smiling through my mask. Well done!
I'm so glad that someone is keeping Ragtime alive, and it is well taken care of in your hands. Thank you!
Oh my gosh, Kristen!!!
Scott Joplin is smiling from above!!!... And countless people are smiling on Earth!! 😄 lol
Your love of and respect for Ragtime shine through this composition!!! It's unbelievable that this is your first composition!!! It has everything!!!... Great melody, great technique, great transitions, great pace, wonderful feel, originality, everything!!! And then, add in your great playing ability and the result is this gem!!! 😊
Yep!!!... You're awesome!!!! 😊
I love how it goes into minor and back
Adam Colbert It feels like it goes to minor and back, however, the modulation is actually B-flat to C minor to E-flat.
@@StuartSimon I think he meant how it went from major to minor then major
Ben Carter I know. Strictly mode-speaking, it does go back.
@@StuartSimon I see what you're saying now though..... It starts in Bb major, modulates to C minor, then modulates back to major except this time it's Eb instead of the original key.
Me: Ahhh ... time to leave work for home.
Kristen uploads a video ...
Me: WAIT!!! Home can wait!
...
Bravo, Kristen! You are expanding my musical tastes! Looking forward to even more from you, especially original works!
What I especially like about this is the way you actually make the piano ring.
I'm no music expert but I'm a connoiseur of ragtime and I thought it sounded great. Keep composing as we'd love to hear more.
Excellent composition and performance.
as a guitarist who learned the entertainer and who listens to various genres of music, I loved your piece here since you masterfully get the right lively tempo, key change, and accents for a rag while bestowing us all a captivating original song I've been listening to on repeat. Many cheers!
I dont think it's possible to be sad while listening to a rag, and in these strange and unprecedented times, that makes you something of a miracle worker Kristen. Thanks for sharing your immense talent with us.
The world can always use more ragtime. Keep up the good work.
I thought "What? I'm not familiar with this ". And then I read the title. Great job.
I'm not an expert on Ragtime... I wish I was a composer... I will say, however, that it was a Breath Of Fresh Air when I'm stuck inside my home sick & in quarantine... Thanks for a little Sunshine in my day... Keep 'em comin'... You can do it!!!!!
Entertainer's DNA is heard here. Love it.
This is very upbeat and happy for a quarantine. Never the less, probably the best composed rag of this century! Good job!
That is a marvelous Joplinesque rag. It made my day (and my quarantine) just to listen to it. Beautifully performed. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Excellent composition and performance, Kristen! Too many people "rush" the tempo of a rag (some just to prove that they can) but your performance of your composition was exactly at the tempo of a classic rag. Wonderful video. 👍🎹🎼🎶🎵
This SOOO needs a silent movie to go with it!! Well done Kristen!😍😁
Thank you for keeping rag time music alive. Now we can have a saloon online without cowboys fighting. My respects to Scott Joplin.
Listening to this song being beautifully played has lifted my spirits 99 per cent. Thank you truly.
So well composed!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the melody which repeates during the rag! ❤️❤️❤️ So fun to listen to, but also a beautiful little peace of music, that I already put on my playlist. Now I know what to hear when I‘m in a bad mood. So good! THANK YOU
Sounds like it should be music for a Disney production. very talented young woman right there.
That was a great rag, Kristen. Keep writing! I’ll tell you who would be proud of that: Max Morath. He led the ragtime revival in the 1950s and 1960s, with shows on PBS, on tour across the country, and off Broadway. He is a friend of mine, though I lost contact with him about 20 years ago. He’s about 94 years old, now, and I’ll bet he’s still playing ragtime. Amazing person, and he loved it when young people got into rag and started writing their own. I think that made him happier than just about anything. Prior to Max, ragtime had slowly disappeared into the shadows of time. He brought it back out in the open again, and he championed people who wrote it themselves. Yours is a good one, and Max would have loved it!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Morath
Thanks for sharing this. I love ragtime music. I've been reading, Rags and Ragtime: A Musical History.
Beautiful! You are an underrated player, hope to see more originals! 😁
I LOVE THIS!
FINALLY! Someone who likes to compose rag time! Please make more. There hasn't been enough of this genre for the last 100 years. Please make a song with chords Lam FaM(ReM) SolM or Mim Fam SolM in the TRIO, only if you want make a proof. Well done!
Just figure out a story. You can inspire in natural mountains or woods or rivers or oceans or a love story or a dance with somebody and you can create your own music with the best chrods and melodies and similar parts of music that you know from Scott Jotplin and others famous rag times...
I'm truly impressed! You could put this in with The Entertainer, Maple Leaf Rag, etc., and it would fit so perfectly you'd not know it was newly written. You've made RagTime history! Just brilliant!
Good and original as always! Well played!
I am thrilled to hear (and see) that people are still actively writing in my favorite piano genre! This is a fun work, and fits perfectly into any ragtime catalog.
If you hadn't told us this was your first official composition, I don't think any of us would have known. I mean your arrangements are fun and well done. But to take the leap to composition - and leap there successfully, as you have done - bravo!!
Here's to many more creations ahead of you!
This is ragtime as it should sound! Go for more of this kind, it is time for a ragtime revival with new composers adding pieces to the old classics. Well done!
Great job we need more young ragtime people out there nowadays it’s full of pop
Kristen, this is absolutely brilliant! The first time I ever touched a piano, a kind family friend (whose house it was) saw and fetched a CD of Scott Joplin's The Entertainer album. Then she challenged me to try and play what I heard. I had a go, and soon was playing the right hand of The Entertainer (no left hand for a while!). That was nearly 20 years ago (am now 28) and no piano sounds as good to me as ragtime! Long story short, I'm so impressed that you've created an original ragtime piece, especially one that captures the original essence so well. Scott Joplin would be proud.
Odd that you should refer to Joplin's album! After all, Joplin was performing and composing in the late eighteen hundreds and early nineteen hundreds. He composed the very first peace in the style now known as Rag.
TH-cam needs a "Love" button! Really cool composition that I thoroughly enjoyed; the only thing I'd say is that to me it sounds better about 20% faster tempo? Otherwise an AMAZING original piece!
I agree. Put it on 1.25 speed and it’s 👌🏼
Ragtime was first and foremost dance music. Not all were racehorses out of the gate at the sound of the gong. This wouldbe a delight to dance to. What splendid and inviting themes and melody lines!
@@Orthodoxdesignco 1.5 works for me!
@@Orthodoxdesignco See?
Love it. Don't stop now. The world can always use more ragtime and this one is cute and timely.
I love ragtime and have listened to a few piano players, but, never such a talented player like Kristen Mosca. She is the best I have ever heard,
i just came across your videos, Kristen, and was stunned first that a young person would be so interested in and talented with this style of music! Your composition starts off with some humor and brings in some of the frustration and ends with humor again. Just what we need at this time. Thanks!
Brilliant! As good as Joplin himself. Well played young lady.
Enjoyable at normal, 0.75 and 1.25 speeds--each conveying a different interpretation one might say.
That said, I think this is a great way to carry on the tradition of many a Ragtime pianist. One of the reasons it became so popular as a genre was the fact that a lot of young women knew how to play the piano and were more than a little bored playing their parents' favorites, and wanted to try their hand at the new genre. So thanks for keeping that tradition alive.
Very well done young lady. Glad to see someone is keeping Scott's music alive. I'm sure he'd love it.
Hey! I totally love this! As a 14 year old composing over 16 pieces, I think it's good!
Everything with this song is good. The transitioning of the parts were well done too! I totally love this song!! Good job! I hope you see this comment. You actually inspired me to get into ragtime. Anyways stay safe!
~Laura
and stay Free !!!
I LOVE ragtime music! Keep it alive.
@@mtlicq Yes I will. thank you!
@@mtlicq I will. you too!
I like that - and the speed is fine. (Many ragtime scores include the instruction, "Not fast").
Back in the day, Boogie Woogie was called Fast Western and Fast Texas ... I think that instruction was there to say 'Don't play this as a boogie, because it's rag'.
Hope we get to hear this over and over again from a lot of players.
Scott would be proud!!!!!!!!
El talento tomando el cuerpo de la música . BRAVO.
...I just don't know what to add after all those well-written comments about how good your work is. But I need to post one to say I love it too :D
Keep it like this, each new videos from this channel make my day!! :D
This is very good. Sounds authentic and highly original at the same time. And perfectly paced.
All I can say is keep composing. I enjoy this rag.
Huge Scott Joplin, Joshua Rifkin and Erik Satie (is his stuff French ragtime?) fan here. This is great! Keep 'em coming!
Excellent! Yet it can be improved: measure 34 (and elsewhere in similar spots), add to the pre-cadence phrase a diminished harmony with a B natural to add to the tension. (Think Maple Leaf, the repeated diminished chords measure 8 resolving to the Ab 6/4 chord.)
And if you're not already familiar with (I'm sure you are!), the authoritative interpretation of Joplin is Joshua Rifkin.
Hey kiddo....WELL DONE !!!!!!!
Scotty Joplin would be PROUD! Bravo, young miss!!
I should be walking around, really fast in a black & white respirator!
I like to imagine dialog in black and white text cards.
*Mouth moves*
"Zounds! You've not dawned your mask!"
*Mouth moves*
"But I'm by my lonesome in the middle of this park."
*Mouth moves*
"It matters not! Put it on or find yourself in the hooskow!"
*Mouth moves*
"Shut up, Karen!"
That C minor section reminds me of Scott Joplin's "Magnetic Rag"
I'm impressed. No sheet music. You memorized this song. You must really know it well.
I can imagine this tune being played in an old saloon.
This is a little too exciting for being stuck in quarantine 😭
Being stuck at home and playing piano all time :D
@@ProbolPL it gives us hope when we're feeling hopeless : )
For some reason the 1st major makes me sad and the minor sounds serious and the last part is a bunch of fake smiles. Definitely hella emotions. This songs a banger.
I was waiting for the (Saloon) door to swing open and a masked stranger step into the room and the music suddenly stop 🤣🤣
Bravo, Kristen! Mr. Joplin would be very proud of the creative efforts here.
Wonderful bittersweet change over passage starting around minute 2 in this video. When I go to heaven this is the one talent I want to have: playing ragtime.
Earlier today...
Me: Alexa, play rag music
Alexa: plays Entertainer and Belle's medley by Kristen Mosca
Me: wait, she's on Amazon Music? And she has something called the Quarantine Rag? Alexa, add everything by Kristen Mosca to my Ragtime playlist!
I really love it and actually hear a resemblance with one of joplins rags. Cant remember which one tho. Keep up!
I think it resembles Scott’s Magnetic Rag.
easy winners?
@@matthewwalker3591 yes that the one! 😇😄
Very nice. Has a genuine 1890's feel.
This needs to be played everywhere (I played it at work. My co workers were interested! Well received lady!)
When all this is over, rename it "Kristen's Rag"!
That could be misunderstood by the juvenile , immature members of the audience. Just saying.
@@fryque She is a great player . Love her playing. Kind of like banjo music. Makes you smile. Take Care
That rag was too upbeat for a quarantine rag lol
'Twas exactly what I needed today!
@KarlMalowned32 - That rag is an antidote for quarantine, brings spirit and joy
Stop ragging on the rag! :p
Wow, a masterful original in the exact mold of rag that sounds like it jumped right out of 1899 and performed with such technical precision. I almost cried. Just fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing. I've had the ragtime fever since I was around 12 years-old. There aren't a lot of us left!
I see saloon and cowboys everywhere. Lovely
This is what they call music, good job young lady
Kristen the stomp and the perfect timing you produce.
You amaze me and I cant sit still.
Scott would be tapping his feet and smiling, which is the effect his style has on everyone.
That's much more than a good first ragtime composition, Kristen. In fact, it's much more than good, period. It's excellent. Please stick with both playing and composing. You have MUCH to offer!