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In 1903, Stark issued a "Maple Leaf Rag Song", an arrangement of Joplin's music with words by Sydney Brown. [11] Brown's lyrics tell the story of a poor man from Accomack County, Virginia, who stumbles into a ballroom where, in spite of his anxiety over the state of his appearance, he manages to wow the crowd with the Maple Leaf Rag.
5.38 Maple Leaf Rag Piano Roll (1 File) 5.39 Maple Leaf Rag 2008 (1 File) 5.40 Tell me pretty maiden (1 File) 5.41 Vissi d'arte (1 File) 5.42 Gran Concerto (1 File)
The style follows the AA BB A CC DD musical form common for both cakewalks and rags, particularly after the earlier publication of Joplin's hit "Maple Leaf Rag". Although called a cakewalk, it departs from the cakewalk form in favor of the more standard ragtime idiom at various points, most notably throughout the C (Trio) section. [1] "Swipesy ...
arwulf arwulf [], writing for allmusic, described the recordings as having been "beautifully restored."[7]Harvey Pekar, writing for The Austin Chronicle, gave the set a five-star rating (of a possible five), noting that "[Morton's] oral history here is provocative, and his playing bears out some of the hard-to-believe statements that have been made by (and about) him."
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Under any name, however, Johnson was a significant contributor to the Ragtime Era and to rag music in general. By far the biggest hit of 1906 was Charles’ most successful rag "Dill Pickles". The first rag to sell a million copies was Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag"; the second was "Dill Pickles". It has been suggested that by 1906 ragtime was ...
I realise the information page is a bit unclear - Commons:Uploader ruined format and made things rather more unclear, but it's a user-made recording by Apatterno, (see User_talk:Apatterno#Maple Leaf Rag). I'll notify him of this, and fix the page. =) Shoemaker's Holiday 22:07, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
The rolls are "digital", as it were, and there is no issue to my mind in transferring them to mp3. This is a valuable historical artefact. Tony (talk) 17:23, 19 July 2010 (UTC) [ reply ]