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SCOTT
JOPLIN
By Emma Devereaux and
Fatemeh Asadi
Scott Joplin’s History
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Scott Joplin (born on November 24th 1868 – April 1st 1917 at
the age of 49) was an African-American composer and pianist,
born near Texarkana, Texas, into the first post-slavery generation.
He achieved fame for his unique ragtime compositions, and was
dubbed the "King of Ragtime." During his brief career, he wrote
forty-four original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two
operas. One of his first pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became
ragtime's first and most influential hit, and remained so, for a
century.
He was blessed with an amazing ability to improvise at the piano,
and was able to enlarge his talents with the music he heard around
him, which was rich with the sounds of gospel hymns and spirituals,
dance music, plantation songs, syncopated rhythms, blues, ect.
Scott Joplin’s Greatest Hits
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Maple Leaf Rag
Solace
The Entertainer
Magnetic Rag
Bethena Waltz
Stoptime Rag
The Easy Winners
Elite Syncopation
Ragtime Dance
Heliotrope Bouquet
Cleopha
Weeping Willow
Wall Street Rag
Pineapple Rag
Scott Joplin’s Era is Jazz!
YOUNG SCOTT JOPLIN
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According to tradition, young Scott first had access to a piano
in the house where his mother worked. Supposedly he taught
himself the rudiments of the keyboard and how to play. His was a
raw, undeveloped talent, and luckily a German-born local music
teacher by the name of Julius Weiss was prescient enough to
recognize it. Weiss taught the youngster an appreciation of the
European music tradition, particularly opera.
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Scott Joplin was the second of six children, having three
brothers and two sisters. Both of his parents were musically
talented. His father played the fiddle and his mother sang and
played banjo, creating for Scott an early exposure to music and
rhythm.
Picture of Scott Joplin
SCOTT JOPLIN’S FAMILY
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His father, Jiles, was a farm laborer and his mother,
Florence, worked as a domestic. His family was a
musical one: Jiles Joplin played the violin, and Florence
played the banjo and sang. Around 1871 the family
moved to Texarkana, Texas, where young Scott was
given access to a piano in a house where his mother
worked. He began to learn to play on his own, until his
talent came to the attention of a German-American
music teacher, Julius Weiss, who provided Scott with
further training in classical music forms. By 1882, Scott's
mother had purchased a piano for him to practice on at
home.
Bibliography
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www.scottjoplin.org/biography.htm
wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Joplin
www.myhero.com/scott Joplin
www.8notes.com/biographies/joplin.asp
americanhistory.suite101.com
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