Best of Ragtime: Piano Solos
by Scott Joplin (Composer)
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Scott
Joplin : A Life in Ragtime (Impact Biographies)
Steven Otfinoski
School & Library Binding / Published 1995
Complete
Piano Rags
by Scott Joplin
(Paperback - January 1989)
Scott
Joplin: 18 Rags in Easier Versions: Solo Piano
by Lawrence Rosen
(Paperback)
King
of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era
by Edward A. Berlin
(Paperback)
Solace
and Other Short Works for Piano
by Scott Joplin
(Paperback)
Scott
Joplin Piano Music
by Fischer Incorporated Carl
(Paperback - April 1990)
Dancing
to a Black Man's Tune: A Life of Scott Joplin (Missouri Biography Series)
by Susan Curtis
(Hardcover)
Scott
Joplin: Composer (Black Americans of Achievement)
by Katherine Preston, et al
(Library Binding - October 1987)
Scott Joplin & the Age of Ragtime (Life, Times and Music Series)
by Timothy Frew
(Paperback)
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SCOTT
JOPLIN FOR GUITAR
by Scott Joplin (Mass Market Paperback)
Scott
Joplins Ragtime Classics
(Paperback - April 1984)
Fingerpicking
Joplin
by Spencer Doidge, et al
(Paperback - June 1984)
Scott Joplin and the Ragtime Era
by Peter Gammond
The revival of Scot Joplin's music has occurred partly because of its
use in the film "The Sting" and partly because of Joshua Rifkin's recordings
of his piano rags. Although composed at the turn of the century, its lasting
power can be appreciated because of ragtime's influence on the worlds of
jazz, popular and classical music.
Peter Gammond first explores Joplin's life from his birth in 1868 in
Texarkana, Texas, to his death in a mental institution in 1917. He describes
his family background; the beginnings of his career playing in the honky-tonks
and brothels along the Mississippi; by his rise to fame as "King of Ragtime"
and his subsequent decline following the failure of his opera Treemonisha.
He then answers the questions: What is ragtime? How, is it played and how
did it evolve from other musical forms? and discusses ragtime's influence
on such key jazz musicians as Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington; on
popular composers like Irving Berlin and George Gershwin; and on the classical
composers, Copland, Milhaud and Stravinsky.
Illustrated with early photos and song sheets, Scott Joplin and the
Ragtime Era also analyses Joplin's works; includes a complete list of ragtime
recordings and piano rolls; contains a comprehensive bibliography; and
shows why Joplin must now be reckoned as one of the world's great popular
composers. The Publisher
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