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    Complete Piano Rags
    Complete Piano Rags
    Complete Piano Rags
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    Complete Piano Rags

    By Scott Joplin

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    Throughout history, few musical crazes have hit with such impact, had such a heyday and lingered so hauntingly as ragtime. Ragtime arrived on the upswing of Tin Pan Alley, when the popularity of pianos in the home was reaching its peak and an endless stream of sheet music flowed out to meet the demand. In the early 1900s, no name was more prominent on those sheet-music covers and no one wrote ragtime music more brilliantly than Scott Joplin.
    This wonderful book brings together in one superbly produced playing edition all thirty-eight of Scott Joplin's piano rags, including his six collaborations, plus Joplin's own primer on how to play ragtime, the "School of Ragtime." Each rag has been reprinted, along with its sheet-music cover, from the original publisher's edition.
    At the Williams' Brothers saloon in Sedalia, Missouri, Scott Joplin was known as "The Entertainer," and in 1897, in the upstairs room called the Maple Leaf Club, he wrote the rag that would one day be the first to sell over a million copies in sheet-music form. In time the "Maple Leaf Rag" also became the most recorded composition on piano roll, with forty known versions.
    Most of Joplin's other rags were hits as well. Many bear the playful names that were given most rags, names like "The Strenuous Life," "Heliotrope Bouquet," and his last published piece, the "Silver Swan Rag." One of them, "The Entertainer," triggered a major revival of interest in his work when it was incorporated into the score of the popular film The Sting. All of them are here, each bearing the mark of Joplin's supreme originality. As ragtime authority David A. Jasen observes in his Introduction: "For pianists everywhere, this folio contains ragtime masterpieces which, when learned, will provide unlimited joy."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateDec 6, 2012
    ISBN9780486312101
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      Complete Piano Rags - Scott Joplin

      Complete Piano Rags

      Scott Joplin

      Copyright © 1988 by Dover Publications, Inc.

      Silver Swan Rag copyright © 1971 by the Lottie Joplin Thomas Trust.

      All rights reserved.

      Complete Piano Rags is a new collection of music, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1988. The original publishers and dates of publication appear in the table of contents and on the individual covers and title pages. We are grateful to the Lottie Joplin Thomas Trust for permission to reprint three of these rags.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Joplin, Scott, 1868—1917.

      [Rags, piano]

      Complete piano rags.

      Reprint of works originally published 1899—1971. 1. Piano music (Ragtime) I. Jasen, David A. II. Title.

      M22.J72R34 1988 88-752657

      9780486312101

      Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation

      25807616 www.doverpublications.com

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      INTRODUCTION

      SCHOOL OF RAGTIME

      ORIGINAL RAGS.

      MAPLE LEAF RAG.

      SWIPESY - CAKE WALK.

      SUN FLOWER SLOW DRAG. - RAG TIME TWO STEEP.

      PEACHERINE RAG.

      THE EASY WINNERS - A RAG TIME TWO STEP.

      THE ENTERTAINER. - A HAG TIME TWO STEP.

      A BREEZE FROM ALABAMA. - MARCH AND TWO-STEP.

      ELITE SYNCOPATIONS.

      THE STRENUOUS LIFE, - A RAGTIME TWO STEP.

      ¨Something Doing." - A RAGTIME TWO STEP.

      WEEPING WILLOW. - A Rag Time Two Step.

      PALM LEAF RAG

      THE FAVORITE. - A RAGTIME TWO-STEP.

      THE SYCAMORE. - A CONCERT RAG.

      THE CASCADES. - A RAG.

      LEOLA. - Two-Step.

      EUGENIA.

      Rag -Time Dance - A Stop -Time Two Step

      Search-Light Rag.

      Gladiolus Rag.

      ROSE LEAF RAG. - A Ragtime Two Step.

      HELIOTROPE BOUQUET - A Slow Drag Two Step .

      THE NONPAREIL. - A Rag & Two Step.

      FIG LEAF - A High Class Rag .

      SUGAR CANE - A Ragtime Two Step

      Pine Apple Rag

      WALL STREET RAG

      COUNTRY CLUB. - Ragtime Two Step

      Euphonic Sounds. - A SYNCOPATED TWO STEP.

      PARAGON RAG

      Stoptime - Rag.

      FELICITY RAG. - A RAGTIME TWO STEP.

      Scott Joplin’s New Rag

      Kismet Rag.

      MAGNETIC RAG

      Reflection Rag - (SYNCOPATED MUSINGS)

      SILVER SWAN RAG

      Dover Orchestral Scores

      Dover Piano and Keyboard Editions

      Dover Popular Songbooks

      INTRODUCTION

      Scott Joplin was christened King of Ragtime Writers by John Stark, the publisher who dedicated his working life to promoting that intoxicating music. The epithet first appeared on the second edition of the Maple Leaf Rag, the first publication Stark printed on his new press in St. Louis, Missouri. In becoming the first ragtime composition to sell a million copies of sheet music, the Maple Leaf Rag established this new nonsinging, nondancing musical genre as part of the history of popular American music, and St. Louis as the cradle of ragtime.

      Scott Joplin was born in Bowie County, Texas, on November 24, 1868. One of six children, he was raised by his mother, as his father had left home by the time young Scott was taking piano lessons. He made his way to St. Louis by 1885, where

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