Ragtime is a musical form that synthesizes folk
melodies and musical techniques into a brief quadrille-
like structure, designed to be played—exactly as written
—on the piano. A strong analogy exists between
European composers like Ralph Vaughan Williams,
Edward Grieg, and Anton Dvorak who combined folk
tunes and their own original materials in larger
compositions and the pioneer ragtime composers in the
United States. Composers like Scott Joplin and James
Scott were in a sense collectors or musicologists,
collecting dance and folk music in Black communities
and consciously shaping it into brief suites or
anthologies called piano rags.
Which of the following is most nearly analogous in source and artistic character to a ragtime composition as described in the passage?
答案：D