Antonio Martinez

Alternative title

Doetinchem: Ragtime voor de Dappere Ziel

Composer

Antonio Martinez

Publisher

Antonio Martinez

Genre

Jazz / Ragtime

Instrumentation

Piano

Scored for

Solo

Type of score

For a single performer

Key

B major

Duration

4'0"

Difficulty

Very difficult

Year of composition

2016

Description
This melody is the twenty-third destination in the collection of the series "Ragtime at the Red Light District." This piece occurs at Doetinchem's Roerstraat.

The main character in this piece is a 26-year old information analyst that also spends time working as an informant for various agencies. During the time in the Netherlands, this person helped foil potential losses. That included busting a major cheating scandal at Rietveld Lyceum, foiling a plot to defecate the Aurora Mill, and even lending a hand to doping authorities about over-juiced teenagers attempting to run an annual marathon through Achterhoek.

The main character was watching a Women's World Cup qualifier at a sold-out Stadion De Vijverberg when the person notices a group of nine radicals, posing as stadium security, escorting 36 orange-clad women from their section of the stadium. This person recognized the group of nine as wanted criminals as the group brazenly kidnapped the women into one armored limousine outside the stadium. This main character began an urgent, discreet power walk that led him to a fake, smock mill inside Roerstraat.

The main character straddled along the mill's perimeter when hearing about a plot from the group of nine to sell the women as part of an illegal slave trade throughout eastern Europe. With no police in an 81-kilometer radius, the main character intervened the five perpetrators. Despite suffering lacerations on his face and receiving a severely-bloodied nose, the main character withheld all resistance from the group of nine. It would not be long before authorities arrested the group of nine and freed the 36 women, who happened to be residents. Everyone involved thanked the main character, who received a heroic song from a town musician.

This piece has a format of 4AA8BB4CC4AA8. Alexander Borodin's "Symphony No. 2" and Scott Joplin's "Magnetic Rag" were the basis for the piece, the former whose key signatures were the inspiration. Also, note that the third section has a 24-bar part.

Upload date

18.01.2016