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Maple Leaf Rag
Scott Joplin (arr. Arthur Frackenpohl)
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General Info
Year: 1899 / 1974
Duration: c. 3:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Piano
Publisher: Shawnee Press
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $50.00 | Score Only (print) - $7.00
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The Maple Leaf Rag (copyright registered on September 18, 1899) is an early ragtime musical composition for piano composed by Scott Joplin. It was one of Joplin's early works, and became the model for ragtime compositions by subsequent composers. It is one of the most famous of all ragtime pieces. As a result, Joplin became dubbed the "King of Ragtime" by his contemporaries.
The Maple Leaf Rag is associated with the city of Sedalia, Missouri, although there is no record of Joplin having a permanent residence there before 1904. Joplin arrived in Sedalia in 1894 as a touring musician and played as a solo musician at dances and at the major black clubs in Sedalia, among them the Maple Leaf Club. It is possible that the rag was named after the Maple Leaf Club, although there is no direct evidence to prove the link, and there were probably many other possible sources for the name in and around Sedalia at the time.
Despite ragtime's decline after Joplin's death in 1917, the Maple Leaf Rag continued to be recorded by many well-known artists. The ragtime revival of the 1970s brought it back to mainstream public notice once again.
- Program Note adapted from Wikipedia
Media
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State Ratings
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Performances
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- State College Area (Penn.) Municipal Band (Darrin Thornton, conductor) - 19 March 2023
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Antoinette March (arr. Lienhart)
- Bethena (arr. Long) (2004)
- The Cascades (arr. Marciniak) (1904/1976)
- Combination March (tr. Lienhart) (1896/2012)
- Combination March (arr. Marcus) (1896/1981/2015)
- Combination March (arr. Schuller) (1896/1975)
- Easy Winners (arr. Allen)
- Elite Syncopations (Percussion Ensemble) (arr. Long) (1902/2000)
- Elite Syncopations (Wind Ensemble) (arr. Long) (1902/2000)
- The Entertainer (arr. Frackenpohl) (1902/1975)
- Entertainer (arr. Holcombe) (1902)
- The Entertainer (arr. Reed) (1902/1974)
- Joplin! (arr. Harnsberger)
- Maple Leaf Rag (arr. Balent) (1899/1916/1992)
- Maple Leaf Rag (arr. Blair) (1899/2022)
- Maple Leaf Rag (arr. Frackenpohl) (1899/1974)
- Maple Leaf Rag (arr. McLeod) (1899/)
- March Majestic (arr. Lienhart)
- Music from "The Sting" (arr. Cacavas) (1974)
- Palm Leaf Rag (arr. Scott) (1903/1974)
- The Ragtime Dance (tr. Elkus) (1974)
- A Real Slow Drag (1911/1913)
- Reindeer Rag (arr. Williams)
- The Rosebud March (arr. Marcus)
- Scott Joplin Retrospective (arr. Clark)
- Solace (arr. Warner)
- The Strenuous Life (arr Reed)
- Sunflower Slow Drag (arr. Bourgeois)
- Treemonisha Overture (orch. Chiappini)
Resources
- Joplin, S.; Frackenpohl, A. (1974). Maple Leaf Rag [score]. Shawnee Press: Delaware Water Gap, Penn.
- Maple Leaf Rag. Wikipedia. - Accessed 1 August 2022