Souvenir de Porto Rico

I find it interesting how the composer incorporates these Latin styles into this. It starts out
almost totally traditional sounding. Around 5 minutes he breaks into this super tasty
groove. Finally, at the end he returns to that traditional thing.

Ojos Criollos
This song started out very traditional sounding. Kind of boring to my ears. It starts to
break into a ragtimy sound about 1/3rd into it. Thats crazy how you can hear ragtime
before it ever existed.

Escorregando
Very rhythmic and syncopated. I can hear the ragtimish elements that influenced the
genre. Then about half way through it starts grooving and breaks into almost ragtime.
Definitely a clear influence this guy was to future artists.

Wall Street Rag

Definitely the most ragtime sound in this one. Its fairly obviously as the name suggests. I
wonder why it is called wall street rag? Guess I am going to have to google search that.

Comparison
It seems as if they sound more and more ragtimish from the first to last song. It is almost
like a direct transition from a classical style to a latin-classical style to a ragish-latin-
classical style to Ragtime. It is an interesting progression. I think they all have that
straight 8ths sound to them but they get more and more syncopated. The rhythms are by
far the most interesting thing to listen to