Write a brief essay on ONE of the two offshoots of ragtime: stride piano and novelty piano.

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                 stride piano:largely a New York phenomenonalso known as “Harlem piano”1920s and 1930scultivated by James Price Johnson (1894-1955) and Fats Waller (1904-43)virtuoso form, developed by pianistsmusical style:steady left-hand rhythmic pulselike ragtime, but expanded to wide-reaching “strides” between low bass notes and midrange offbeat chordssyncopated right-hand figurationoften faster than ragtimedriving beatvery elaborate melodic line novelty piano:primarily of the early 1920s“show-off” kind of piano musicsounds more difficult than it is“a refined, white suburban extension of ragtime” (Ronald Riddle)in part, made accessible by the player pianoexamples:“Nola”“Canadian Capers”“Kitten on the Keys”“Dizzy Fingers”musical style:the basic underlying features of ragtimeemphasized greater speedexhibitionist kind of virtuositysyncopationcomposer most associated with novelty pianoEdward E. “Zez” Confrey (1895-1971)influenced:George Gershwin