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.
The noun 'ragtime' is a common noun, a general word for a  style of music.    A proper noun is the name of a specific person, place, or thing;  for example, the song â¦Ragtime Cowboy Joe (c.1912) or the movie  Ragtime (1981).