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.
Their music is considered a superior form of the style. The term classic ragtime actually was coined by the publisher John Stark who in the first decade of the 20th century began publishing works by Joplin, Lamb, Scot and others and billed them as classic rags and compared their quality to European art songs.