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Ragtime Dance, The
Scott Joplin (trans. Jonathan Elkus)
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General Info
Year: 1974
Duration: c. 4:30
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Folk ballet
Publisher: Southern Music
Cost: Score and Parts – Out of Print.
Instrumentation
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Errata
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Program Notes
The Ragtime Dance is a piece of ragtime music by Scott Joplin, first published in 1902. The 1902 arrangement was a short ragtime folk ballet suitable for stage performance, complete with narration and choreography. The narrator recounts a "dark town" ball that took place at 9 p.m. on a Thursday night and included a cakewalk. The choreography is for four couples. Four years later, the work was republished in a piano rag arrangement, stripped of its narration and choreography and substantially shortened.
Marvin Hamlisch incorporated The Ragtime Dance into a medley for the soundtrack of the Oscar-winning 1973 film The Sting.
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
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State Ratings
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Performances
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- Ouachita Baptist University (Arkadelphia, Ark.) Wind Ensemble (Craig V. Hamilton, conductor) - 31 October 2022
- University of Massachusetts (Amherst) Wind Ensemble (Matthew Westgate, conductor) - 1 May 2021
- Golden Gate Park Band (San Francisco, Calif.) (Robert Calonico, conductor) - 5 August 2018
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.; Elkus, J. [1974]. Ragtime Dance: A Stop-Time Two-Step [score]. Southern Publishing Co.: New York.
- The Ragtime Dance, Wikipedia Accessed 2 August 2018