Searching for an Identity
Darmstadt: Ragtime for the Chivalrous Soul, Op.2 No.15
SM-000225050
- Alternative title
- Darmstadt: Ragtime für die Ritterliche Seele
- Composer
- Antonio Martinez
- Publisher
- Antonio Martinez
- Genre
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Jazz / Ragtime
- Instrumentation
- Piano
- Scored for
- Solo
- Type of score
- For a single performer
- Duration
- 4'11"
- Difficulty
- Difficult
- Year of composition
- 2015
Description
This melody is the fifteenth destination in the collection of the series "Ragtime at the Red- Light District." This piece occurs at Darmstadt's Bismarkstraße.
The main character in this piece is a 30-year old etiquette expert. This person spends time sojourning around the world teaching and conducting seminars on everything about etiquette. For nine years, the main character held 256 workshops, expositions, and classes worldwide.
Among his many adventures is a visit to Darmstadt, where the main character held a seminar about the science of etiquette at Hochschule Darmstadt. The main character also integrated religion with protocol at Russian Chapel before embarking on the main character's largest exposition. This exposition was available to middle-class families, and children inside Stadion am Böllenfalltor, two hours before the stadium was to host a World Cup qualifier.
As nightfall approached, the main character enjoyed a strenuous power walk, preaching etiquette to even the homeless people. So the main character reached Bismarkstraße and noticed when he saw a group of rowdy men wreaking havoc and inciting lewd acts toward the female patrons. With little police presence, the main character used only proper etiquette and nonviolent means to repress the rowdy crowd. The main character proved too much for the rowdy crowd as the group dispersed into darkness, and the person's actions excited one woman, a working patron at the red-light district. She was also famous for displaying proper etiquette daily. The two people joined hands and ended the night with a casual walk.
This piece uses a format of 4AABBACCDACC. Scott Joplin's "Original Rags" was the basis for this piece, as its influence is evident during the third section of this piece.