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Ragtime No. 21 "Banana Rag"

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A short and simple AABBA’ rag in C, written in Shanghai in 2016. I nicknamed it “Banana” because I at first thought the main motif subconsciously came from one of the strains of “The Banana Boat Song” (“tally me banana”)- but, when rehearing the song to confirm whether or not it was the same, I realized it wasn’t quite it. It turns out I’d misheard the strain all along, and because it wasn’t the same, no copyright violation occurred; I didn’t have to shelve the rag.