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A Breeze from Alabama (2)Antoinette (3)
Augustan Club (2)
Bethena: Concert Waltz (8)
Binks' Waltz (2)
Cleopha (1)
Combination March (1)
Country Club (3)
Elite Syncopations (9)
Eugenia (4)
Euphonic Sounds - A Syncopated Novelty (2)
Felicity Rag (2)
Fig Leaf Rag (3)
Gladiolus Rag (4)
Great Collision March (2)
Harmony Club Waltz (1)
Heliotrope Bouquet 'A Slow Drag Two-Step' (4)
Kismet Rag (2)
Leola (1)
Lily Queen (2)
Magnetic Rag (6)
Maple Leaf Rag (7)
March Majestic (1)
New Rag (1)
Nonpareil (2)
Original Rags (6)
Palm Leaf Rag (1)
Paragon Rag (2)
Peacherine Rag (2)
Pine Apple Rag (3)
Pleasant Moments (5)
Ragtime Dance (arr. Bill Thorp) (1)
Ragtime Dance (2)
Ragtimes (2) (1)
Reflection Rag (4)
Rose Leaf Rag (arr. Bill Thorp) (1)
Rose Leaf Rag (4)
Rosebud (2)
Scott Joplin's New Rag (2)
Searchlight Rag (3)
Sensation (1)
Silver Swan Rag (1)
Solace (arr. Jacqueline Thomas) (1)
Solace (12)
Something Doing (2)
Stoptime Rag (4)
Sugar Cane (3)
Sunflower Slow Drag (3)
Swipesy Cake Walk (4)
The Cascades (3)
The Chrysanthemum (2)
The Easy Winners (6)
The Entertainer (11)
The Favorite (1)
The Golden Hours (1)
The Ragtime Dance (2)
The Strenuous Life (4)
The Sycamore (1)
Treemonisha (5)
Wall Street Rag (3)
Weeping Willow (5)
Scott Joplin (c.1867/68 – 1 April 1917) was an African American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was dubbed the "King of Ragtime Writers". During his brief career, he wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first, and most popular pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became ragtime's first and most influential hit, and has been recognized as the archetypal rag.
Joplin was born into a musical family of railway laborers in Northeast Texas, and developed his musical knowledge with the help of local teachers. Joplin grew up in Texarkana, where he formed a vocal quartet, and taught mandolin and guitar. During the late 1880s he left his job as a laborer with the railroad, and travelled around the American South as an itinerant musician. He went to Chicago for the World's Fair of 1893, which played a major part in making ragtime a national craze by 1897.
The combination of classical music, the musical atmosphere present around Texarkana (including work songs, gospel hymns, spirituals and dance music) and Joplin's natural ability have been cited as contributing significantly to the invention of a new style that blended African-American musical styles with European forms and melodies, and first became celebrated in the 1890s: ragtime.
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