an IT system to determine whether it is an instance of the named platform. A general requirement for the naming structure is that the set of platforms identified by a long. name should be a subset of the set of platforms identified by a shorter initial portion of that same. name.
The first true ragtime composition was published by William Krell called The Mississippi Rag in 1897. Tom Turpin, the first published African American composer wrote The Harlem Rag the same year.
Ragtime is most commonly thought of as exclusively a piano form that reached its greatest popularity between 1897 and World War I. However, at the time, the ragtime label was also attached to other instrumental music, songs and dance music.