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Complete Piano Rags
by Scott Joplin

ISBN: 0486258076
Dover Publications Price: $16.95
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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."
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Table of Contents for Complete Piano Rags
Introduction by David A. Jasen
School of Ragtime, by Scott Joplin
Original Rags
Maple Leaf Rag
Swipesy, written with Arthur Marshall
Sunflower Slow Drag, written with Scott Hayden
Peacherine Rag
The Easy Winners
The Entertainer
A Breeze from Alabama
Elite Syncopations
The Strenuous Life
Something Doing, written with Scott Hayden
Weeping Willow
Palm Leaf Rag
The Favorite
The Sycamore
The Cascades
Leola
Eugenia
The Ragtime Dance
Seachlight Rag
Gladiolus Rag
Rose Leaf Rag
Heliotrope Bouquet, written with Louis Chauvin
The Nonpareil
Fig Leaf Rag
Sugar Cane
Pine Apple Rag
Wall Street Rag
Country Club
Euphonic Sounds
Paragon Rag
Stoptime Rag
Felicity Rag, written with Scott Hayden
Scott Joplin's New Rag
Kismet Rag, written with Scott hayde
Magnetic Rag
Reflection Rag
Silver Swan Rag