![]() Although arrangements for band were also quite popular. Ragtime sheet music was written mostly for piano and vocal. We will be adding more history and facts, plus links to piano CD's and sheet music. Plus many other composers such as James Scott, Joseph Lamb, and Charles L Johnson contributed to the ragtime piano era. ![]() At that time if a piece of sheet music sold more than 5000 copies a year it was considered very successful. And so Joplin's compositions helped fire up the modern sheet music industry as we know it today. Stark went on to publish The Entertainer (1902), Elite Syncopations (1902) plus many more Joplin hits. Even those church members! Ragtime is highly syncopated so don't be surprised if some people do not like ragtime. Sit down at a piano anywhere(except maybe in church) and play the M. But once you get it down, boy is it fun to play. does take a good bit of practice to master. And let me tell you, the Maple Leaf is no trashy piece of music, nor is ragtime in general, as most of the classical teachers deemed it to be. It quickly became one of the top selling ragtime compositions. But many students then, as now, were forced to practice, and parental force in 1899 was probably a lot stronger than it is today.įortunately Stark changed his mind and published the M. He at first turned down the Maple Leaf, saying it was too hard for most piano students. One of them was Scott Joplin's new publisher, John Stark. Ragtime piano was going to make a lot of money for a lot of publishers. The business of popular music publishing was also about to grow in leaps and bounds. Thanks to the publishing business rags are still with us. Although it was only wildly popular for approximately 20 years. Ragtime Piano was here, and it was here to stay. And whatever state of mind the United States was in at the time one thing was quickly making itself known. It set fire to an exciting new style of music that was about to sweep the nation. The instrumental for piano was the Maple Leaf Rag. ![]()
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