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Beginning of "Solace" Though Joplin labeled the piece "a Mexican Serenade", [2] [3] its origins are more probably Cuban, [4] [5] and it is considered to have a habanera (and tango [4] [5]) rhythm in three of the four strains [note 1] [6] – something unique for a work by Joplin, [5] [6] although a brief habanera bass did appear in his previous composition of that year, "Wall Street Rag".
Joplin was the second of six children [6] born to Giles Joplin, a former slave from North Carolina, and Florence Givens, a freeborn African-American woman from Kentucky. [7] [8] [9] His birth date was accepted by early biographers Rudi Blesh and James Haskins as November 24, 1868, [10] [11] although later biographer Edward A. Berlin showed this was most likely incorrect.
When Joplin was learning the piano, serious musical circles condemned ragtime because of its association with the vulgar and inane songs of Tin Pan Alley. [4] As a composer, Joplin refined ragtime, developing it from the dance music played by pianists in brothels in cities like St. Louis . [ 5 ]
Scott Joplin was an early musician who transformed much of the landscape of popular music in the early 1900s. ... he learned piano and classical music from a variety of tutors in Texarkana.In 1885 ...
At the 14th Annual Grammy Awards, Piano Rags was nominated for Best Album Notes and Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra). [5] In January 1971, Harold C. Schonberg of The New York Times, having just heard the album, wrote a featured Sunday edition article entitled "Scholars, Get Busy on Scott Joplin!"
List of compositions by Scott Joplin; S. Solace (Joplin) This page was last edited on 10 December 2021, at 21:24 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-508739-9. Jason, David A. (2007) Ragtime: an Encyclopedia, Discography, and Sheetography. Routledge Taylor and Francis Group. ISBN 0-415-97862-9. Waldo, Terry (2009) This is Ragtime. Jazz at Lincoln Center Library. ISBN 978-1-934793-01-5.
"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]