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The Entertainer (rag) " 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 ...
Scott Joplin in 1912. The "Maple Leaf Rag" is a multi- strain ragtime march with athletic bass lines and offbeat melodies. Each of the four parts features a recurring theme and a striding bass line with copious seventh chords. The piece may be considered the "archetypal rag" due to its influence on the genre; its structure was the basis for ...
Pulitzer Prize (posthumous, 1976) Signature. Scott Joplin (November 24, 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist. Dubbed the "King of Ragtime ", [1] he composed more than 40 ragtime pieces, [2] one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first and most popular pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became the genre's first and ...
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
In November 1970, Joshua Rifkin released a recording called Scott Joplin: Piano Rags [ 7] on the classical label Nonesuch, which featured as its third track "The Ragtime Dance". It sold 100,000 copies in its first year and eventually became Nonesuch's first million-selling record. [ 8] The Billboard "Best-Selling Classical LPs" chart for 28 ...
November 1970. Genre. Ragtime. Length. 32:40. Label. Nonesuch Records. Piano Rags by Scott Joplin is an album by Joshua Rifkin consisting of ragtime compositions by Scott Joplin, released by Nonesuch Records in 1970. The spine of the original album and various compact disc reissues render the title as Scott Joplin: Piano Rags.
Ragtime, also spelled rag-time or rag time, [ 2] is a musical style that had its peak from the 1890s to 1910s. [ 1] Its cardinal trait is its syncopated or "ragged" rhythm. [ 1] Ragtime was popularized during the early 20th century by composers such as Scott Joplin, James Scott and Joseph Lamb. Ragtime pieces (often called "rags") are typically ...
Magnetic Rag. " Magnetic Rag " is a 1914 ragtime piano composition by American composer Scott Joplin. It is significant for being the last rag which Joplin published in his lifetime, three years before his death in 1917. It is also unique in form and in some of the musical techniques employed in the composition.