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Joplin in 1912 The following is a complete list of musical compositions by Scott Joplin (November 24, 1868 – April 1, 1917). Scott Joplin was born in Arkansas in around 1867, just outside Texarkana , and was a street performer before settling in Sedalia, Missouri , St. Louis, Missouri , and finally New York City where he died in 1917.
"The Entertainer" is a 1902 classic piano rag written by Scott Joplin. [1] It was sold first as sheet music by John Stark & Son of St. Louis, Missouri, [2] and in the 1910s as piano rolls that would play on player pianos. [1] The first recording was by blues and ragtime musicians the Blue Boys in 1928, played on mandolin and guitar. [1]
The structure is unusual for a Joplin rag; Edwards characterized it as a rondo. The recapitulation of the A strain at the end is also found in "Magnetic Rag" and "Scott Joplin's New Rag", which appeared about the same time. [1] The introduction and the A strain are both in B-flat major. At the start of the B strain, the piece modulates to G ...
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.
The original cover page showed an elderly black man picking up rags in front of a ramshackle cabin, and has been interpreted as a double pun, first on the activities of a rag (or junk) picker, and second on a slang term for ragtime, "picking the piano". [3] The rag was given the following credits: Picked By Scott Joplin Arranged By Chas. N ...
Joshua Rifkin's 1970 LP Piano Rags by Scott Joplin played a part in the Joplin revival of that decade, with sales of over 100,000 in the first year and subsequently becoming Nonesuch Records' first disk to sell over 1 million copies. [27] Bethena was one of the pieces performed on the 1972 follow-up, Volume 2.
Instrument: Piano Solo " Weeping Willow " is a 1903 classic piano ragtime composition by Scott Joplin . It was one of Joplin's simpler and less famous ragtime scores, written during a transitional period in his life, and one of the few pieces that Joplin cut as a piano roll in a 1916 session.
"Elite Syncopations" is a 1902 ragtime piano composition by American composer Scott Joplin, originally published in 1903 by John Stark & Son. [1] [2] The cover of the original sheet music prominently features a well-dressed man and lady sitting on a treble staff, looking down upon a cherub clutching a cymbal in each hand, [2] which reflects plainly the title of the piece.