![]() ![]() Blesh appreciated it as "a charming and auspicious beginning to the life work of the master ragtime composer". Wheeler's "A Virginny Frolic" published by Carl Hoffman the year before. Ragtime historians have commented on the harmonic similarity between the "D" section of "Original Rags" and the "A" section of H. ![]() The piece is mostly in G major except for the "C" section, which is in C major, and the "D" section (marked "Brilliant" in the sheet music), which is in D major. Addeddate 16:08:25 Identifier ragtime-piano-scott-joplin-.-the-entertainer-1902 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6. ![]() Like the posthumously published "Reflection Rag", it features five themes, but the "Original Rag" delays reentry of the first theme until after the modulation. A recording of the 1902 classic piano ragtime song 'The Entertainer' by African-American composer Scott Joplin (1868-1917). The rag is not in the sequence "AA BB A CC DD" more typical of Joplin. Introduction AA BB CC Modulation A DD EE. The composition has the following musical structure: Joplin biographer Rudi Blesh thought it more likely that the credit to Daniels was the publisher's way of acknowledging his help in recommending the piece for publication Blesh wrote that the music was "unmistakably Joplin" in style. Daniels actually arranged the piece, or merely transcribed it. The original cover page showed an elderly black man picking up rags in front of a ramshackle cabin, and has been interpreted as a double pun, first on the activities of a rag (or junk) picker, and second on a slang term for ragtime, "picking the piano". The tune's copyright was registered on March 15, 1899, and it was first published by Carl Hoffman of Kansas City, Missouri. It was the first of Scott Joplin's rags to appear in print, in early 1899, preceding his " Maple Leaf Rag" by half a year. 6 Exercises for Piano (Instructional Manual) 1916. Kismet Rag (co-composer: Scott Hayden probably composed around 1900). "Original Rags" (copyrighted March 15, 1899) was an early ragtime medley for piano. March and Two Step (only final strain is syncopated). ![]()
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