SCOTT JOPLIN ORIGINAL PIANO ROLLS

SCOTT JOPLIN ORIGINAL PIANO ROLLS

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Music

Tags:

• traditional
• jazz
• SCOTT
• JOPLIN
• ORIGINAL
• PIANO
• ROLLS

[videogamerxx]

Joplin always said don't play too fast, just play it, and if you feel like its too fast then tone it down. It's music, play it how you want to hear it.

[unklwlly]

To a Great composer!!

[elgoscoix]

This isn't fast. This is fast: youtube.com/watch?v=BoORU0GBGc­E This is what Joplin wanted to avoid. In general, march tempo (around 120 beats per minute) or slow march tempo (as Joplin himself often writes) is adequate for ragtime. These were lively dances, not funeral songs!

[elgoscoix]

@pig409 I believe ragtime must be played with the sustain pedal. There are pedal indications in several of Joplin's pieces, and when he writes it, it's always a very heavy pedal (it is often sustained for whole measures). This would contrast oddly with the rest of the piece where there is no written pedal, if it were played "dry". I think Joplin only wrote down pedal indications when it deviates from what one would usually do (that is, one pedal each half measure). I may be wrong, but...

[0276boy]

I agree. This isn't that fast. Plus, rags were really marches and one was supposed to be able to dance to them. When Joplin indicated otherwise he stated it in the titles. A true American genius! And I thank you for posting it. No, probably not Joplin at the keyboard, but he'd be fine with the extra notes!

[44t56]

6 people must be Klansmen (if you don't get it, you're not racist)

[sugarcanegray]

the originator of all modern music. A genius :)

[RWBHere]

Joplin made those rolls in his last year of life, when he was in quite a bad state, physically and mentally. The rolls were heavily edited and corrected before being released for sale.

Nonetheless, we're lucky to have some record of how Joplin liked his music to be played.

Thank-you for posting this.

[RED1111111111]

WISH HE HADN'T DIED SO EARLY IN LIFE!! 

[318thenewcomer]

5 people are nazi's that accidentally pressed dislike

[Lucius1958]

Actually, this is not a 'hand-played' roll. The liner notes of the Biograph record which includes this specifically state it was not. You can tell by the 'extra' notes in the arrangement.

[beakt]

@pig409 Look at the metronome markings in the sheet music for Pineapple and Sugar Cane. He put 100 beats per quarter note. If you're used to playing ragtime like ballads because of the pervasive belief you're supposed to play it slow and boring, this seems ridiculously fast, but it's not. It's a slow march, as he always puts in his sheet music. A regular march is about 130 bpm. I think this video presents the music very authentically.