SCOTT JOPLIN (The Chrysanthemum, 1904) Ragtime Piano Roll Legend

[ringosan8035]

@CommendatoreAndolini not to mention 1903 was over a hundred years ago. I don't know of any hundred year olds that get on YouTube and comment on videos....:/.........:D

[verdew8181]

While I love a lot of the "heavier" classical music, Ragtime, which falls into the category of "semi-classical", is for me a most pleasurable aural experience, a musical form of bicycling, roller skating, riding a carousel and otherwise just truly enjoying life to the hilt.

[canadianbacon007]

King of Ragtime

[CommendatoreAndolini]

I'll never forget the first time I heard this. It was the year 1903 in the old West, I was indulging in a round of Texas hold'em in the local saloon when I noticed a devious young kid lookin' at my cards. Accusing him of cheating, we took it outside and agreed to a duel. As the clock struck 3, I turned around and shot him in the face. Moral: don't cheat at cards.

[GDupons]

@CommendatoreAndolini Hmm, I heard Texas Hold'em was developed in the 1970s!

[CommendatoreAndolini]

@GDupons Don't make me challenge you to a duel, pard'ner.

[tayschdance]

can anyone find printable FREE sheetmusic for this? I've already got The Entertainer, and Maple Leaf Rag

[palkian90]

anyone know what would be a good CD to get of scott joplin's music? some of them don't really have a ragtime feel to them even if the pianist is skilled

[Kamel1Reds]

Your face.

[Kamel1Reds]

Clap Clap Clap. Woo-hoo. Let us all bicker about decomposing composers. The only thing they are composing is carbon molecules back into the dirt. I would take a stab that you're a 'christian' as well. Time to separate the myth from legend, and the misinterpretations to truth.

Being American has nothing to do with anything, just an isolated population with corporation controlled media. The populous being a blind society of sheep built from religion, another smokescreen for peaceful existance.

[SeRoAnthem]

I don't get it, I feel like I've been listening to this for an hour, I check the video progress and I'm at one minute 3 seconds.

Amazing.

[FamilyPrisonerBlues]

@monkeyBoner773 Don't try to start with me.

[FamilyPrisonerBlues]

I just heard this music here on WCPE classical radio station the other day and I IMMEDIATELY fell in love with it and wrote the name of the piece and the composer down on paper, I love watching silent movies and this music made me think of silent movies right away since this is silent movie music ,that is why I fell in love with it right away ,and I am VERY SURPRISED that the composer is a African American man ! WOW !

[thelizinator]

@FamilyPrisonerBlues Scott Joplin's father was a freed slave. He was a genius and is my muse. He longed to write classical music to earn the status of a great composer. He certainly created music that lived up to his dreams. Sadly, he was held back by his race. Had he lived and composed in another place, another time he might have realized the recognition he sought. Once you play his music, you appreciate the complexity and beauty of his compositions.

[FamilyPrisonerBlues]

@thelizinator #1 I have to disagree with your race comment because most if not all of the European men we now recognize as great composers were not recognized as being such or really appreciated while they were still LIVING ,it all came after they were already DEAD,the recognition and appreciation of them and their musical compositions, and most if not all of them lived their whole lives in poverty and died that way,they also endured many hardships and challenges of all sorts throughout

[FamilyPrisonerBlues]

@thelizinator #2 their lifetimes,they were literally starving artists,they did not make alot of money,and these were European men living their whole lives in Europe. So these FACTS here just blow your whole " his race holding him back" theory/comment right out of the water ! Don't believe me ? Then just go and research the great composers lives for yourself,you don't have to take my word for it.

[FamilyPrisonerBlues]

@thelizinator #3 I just watched the movie MOZART for the first time not too long ago and found out that when he died he died PENNYLESS( I think that was his fault though because he had a problem managing his money) and despite his fame and reputation as a great composer and social connections in high places his body was dumped into a mass grave( without a coffin and just wrapped in a plain cloth ) at the cemetary like any other pauper or bum who couldn't pay for a proper or decent funeral -

[gonzojournalists]

@FamilyPrisonerBlues I'm telling you, that's the way to live. Blow all your money on parties, booze, and suchlike. Why would you care if you are able to have a decent funeral? Props to Mozart if this is really true!

[FamilyPrisonerBlues]

@thelizinator #4 - or grave ! There were bodies already in that grave they dumped his body in and then someone threw powdered lime all over his and the other corpses in the mass grave,that meant they would pile somemore bodies into that grave as lime controls or stops decomposition since they still had to leave the mass grave open for more future corpses to be dumped into it. He also had a wife and small son when he died,they didn't even go to the cemetary to his funeral the day they dumped his-

[FamilyPrisonerBlues]

@thelizinator #5 - his body into that mass grave ! NON of the people that knew him personally and that he hung around with and socialized with during his lifetime attended his burial and funeral ( and that is what he always blew most of his money on,lavish parties,social gatherings) only a priest and gravediggers/undertakers were at his burial ! That man didn't even get a proper and decent burial and funeral not even a coffin or his own grave, and we're talking about MOZART here !

[RZrecklezz]

@FamilyPrisonerBlues

Thank you for taking the time to tell us this, I didn't know this. (I'm not in any way being sarcastic)

But, I must comment; you started this with saying his race did not have the aforementioned impact, and followed with this example, however these are kind of two different things.. It could well be that his colour stood in the way of his true succes, and despite the stories being mildly similar, it's still not comparable in this specific context..

Cheers,

Recklezz

[voltamp]

His music is about sex. This is a red-blooded American male we're talking about here. Sex, people. Sex. Otherwise, how on earth could he be so diligent and prolific?

It was an age when everything about sexuality was far more indirect than now.

Seriously - you've got to be kidding me. A horny grown up heterosexual male wrote songs about PLANTS?

No freaking way. I would bet big money that most of his tunes were about women he'd known.

Sorry. I don't make the rules here.

[TheYarxia]

@voltamp

Maybe so. But the one thing known about this song is that he dedicated and wrote it for his second wife, who was the love of his life, a woman named Freddie Alexander. She died 10 wekks after they married from a cold. Look at his waltz titled "Bethena." He wrote it after she died.

[huangwz]

Where can i buy all scott joplin music. I like his music.

[EveryGoodBoyDoesFine]

@huangwz Scott Joplin is long dead. There are tons of public domain scans at imslp.org (pettrucci project)

[BoidsiesRoblox]

Is this a midi file? It sounds like one...

[LeReporterProvencal]

I Like Scott Japlin !!!

Youtube and Facebook :  " le reporter provencal "

[elgoscoix]

Thanks for posting so many of Joplin's rags! This is one I like to play a bit slower, for contrast, when I'm playing many on a row. To me, both the intro and section C (that starting at 1:46) are very delicate, so I believe the slower tempo suits them well (anyway, this version is at a speed that doesn't bother me at all). Beware of a wrong note in bar 17 (0.21) and similar places. The right hand plays a Bb when it should be playing a B (as in the left hand).

[bbwsusan55]

So much ragtime was used for silent films - before movies were actually scored - I didn't realize it until I listened to the rags by themselves.

[Spongebobbkn]

Great piece... all I can think of is Repton though!

[alentoure]

Loove that score !¨

[spareaxe]

I heard his music wasn't played back in the day so much by others. Never was so famous until later in life? Also, he was gay?

[fepeter46]

@spareaxe No his rags were very famous. I doubt he was gay; he died of syphyllis

[beakt]

@spareaxe It seems lots of great musicians were gay, but Scott Joplin married two women.

[lv4piano]

You know, somehow each song sounds like it belongs with that plant/flower! I love it!

[TheMcbro]

I like to think of Scott Joplin as one who loved nature and took long walks in the park every day.

[tenyearsgone148]

is this Scott Joplin himself playing?

[Doug19752533]

@tenyearsgone148 no its not Joplin playing. Joplin only made rolls of Maple Leaf Rag (twice), Somthing Doing, Weepling Willow, Pleasant Moments, and Magnetic Rag. Also recorded Ole Miss Rag by WC Handy

[tenyearsgone148]

@Doug19752533 ok, thanks.

[8Alexandre8]

@tenyearsgone148 no its a computer. (MIDI FILE)

[charliebubblesoar]

he plays about plants. it's very pretty music

[RagtimeDorianHenry]

yes, chrysanthemum, roses, palm leaf,...

[charliebubblesoar]

heliotrope bouquets

[vickeryhal]

Gladioli

[JamesPriceJohnson]

sunflower, dont forget sunflower, and maple leaf

[lv4piano]

@JamesPriceJohnson

And Pine Apple! and fig leaf :-)

[JamesPriceJohnson]

@lv4piano, those arent flowers

[lv4piano]

@JamesPriceJohnson

I thought we were talking about plants...

[Violascry]

I adore Scott Joplin's pieces!!! I've played them on piano and also I've transcribed them to viola and played the viola together with piano. It's fun!

[ilove1994]

Joplin ios one of my favorites RIP 1868-1917