"on stage, he tears off her skirt. ""Maple Leaf Rag"" was Graham's 180th choreographic work. Even so, reviewers noted, she still had the capacity to surprise and delight. ""The new piece is an entertaining poke by a genius at her own cliches, tersely and wittily stated,"" wrote ""The New York Times""' Anna Kisselgoff. A critic seeing a much later performance said, ""While she worked out her obsessions onstage, Graham also had a keen but oft-overlooked sense of humor. Set to several Scott Joplin rags that were still in vogue during her teenage years, ""Maple Leaf Rag"" is a sly and"
"guitar and banjo soloist. According to David A. Jasen, in his book ""Ragtime gems: original sheet music for 25 ragtime classics"", sheet music for ragtime songs sometimes sold a million copies (the standard of today's Platinum Record for recorded music). It tended not to happen as quickly as with music sales today, taking as long as 20 years for the hit ""Maple Leaf Rag"", but it did happen. ""Spaghetti Rag"" was part of a list of million-selling songs that included Scott Joplin's ""Maple Leaf Rag"" and Charles L. Johnson's ""Dill Pickles Rag"". ""Spaghetti Rag"" was covered by artists such as"
"international hit with ""Maple Leaf Rag"", a multi-strain ragtime march with four parts that feature recurring themes and a bass line with copious seventh chords. Its structure was the basis for many other rags, and the syncopations in the right hand, especially in the transition between the first and second strain, were novel at the time. The last four measures of Scott Joplin's ""Maple Leaf Rag"" (1899) are shown below. </score> African-based rhythmic patterns such as tresillo and its variants, the habanera rhythm and cinquillo, are heard in the ragtime compositions of Joplin, Turpin, and others. Joplin's ""Solace"" (1909) is"
"Scott Joplin Scott Joplin ( or November 24, 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an African-American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was dubbed the ""King of Ragtime"". During his brief career, he wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first and most popular pieces, the ""Maple Leaf Rag"", became ragtime's first and most influential hit, and has been recognized as the archetypal rag. Joplin was born into a musical family of railway laborers in Texarkana, Arkansas, and developed his musical knowledge with the help of local teachers."
"Maple Leaf Rag"" (1980), ""The Maple Leaf Rag 15th Anniversary Anthology"" (1994), and ""Maple Leaf Rag III"" (2006). The Maple Leaf was closed for several weeks in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Owner Hank Staples remained in New Orleans to guard the bar and his other properties while vowing in interviews with to host the first concert in New Orleans after the storm. On September 30, 2005, Walter ""Wolfman"" Washington played the Maple Leaf's first post-Katrina show in New Orleans. (Some other local musicians who were playing in the aftermath of the storm dispute the claim that it was the"
"space utilized on each disc. The first disc opens with Dick Hyman’s recording of ""Maple Leaf Rag"", a historically informed performance that imitates the precision of ragtime compositions on player pianos at the end of the 19th century. Midway through the set Sidney Bechet’s 1932 interpretation gives a ""hot jazz"" interpretation of the Rag. The final disc begins with a modern take on ""Maple Leaf Rag,"" the 1976 recording by Anthony Braxton and Muhal Richard Abrams. Producer Richard Burgess notes these consecutive examples of how jazz progressed function as, ""the pedagogical moment... A lot of the thinking behind the set"
"rag, and has been seen as demonstrating Joplin's excellence as a classical composer. The work has been described as ""an enchantingly beautiful piece that is among the greatest of Ragtime Waltzes"", a ""masterpiece"", and ""Joplin's finest waltz"". Joplin's principal claim to fame was the publication in 1899 of the Maple Leaf Rag, which became a best-selling instrumental hit, and provided the composer with a steady income for the rest of his life from the royalties. Despite this success early on in his career (he was named as the ""King of Ragtime"" by numerous contemporaries), he had continued financial problems and"
"Rag"" is still a favorite of ragtime pianists, and has been described as an ""American institution... still in print and still popular"". As the copyright has expired, the composition is in the public domain. It appears in the soundtracks of hundreds of films, cartoons, commercials, and video games. In 2004 Canadian radio listeners voted it the 39th greatest song of all time. In Joplin's will, he requested that ""Maple Leaf Rag"" be played at his funeral. When preparations were being made however, his wife did not allow it because she did not think it was a proper funeral song. She"
"Dick Zimmerman Richard “Dick” Zimmerman (born August 11, 1937) is a ragtime performer, historian, author and producer. He is regarded as being one of the key figures responsible for the worldwide revival of ragtime. Zimmerman is the only pianist to have recorded the complete works (66 rags on solo piano) of Scott Joplin and in 1987 was awarded the first place prize “Champion Ragtime Performer of the World”. Zimmerman was technical advisor for the films ""Scott Joplin"" and ""Scott Joplin, King of Ragtime Composers"". He is a founder of the ""Maple Leaf Club"", and is the editor of its publication,"
"United States Copyright Office received two copies of the score. The rag was reissued in 1900 or 1901 with a new cover showing a green maple leaf and a photograph of Joplin. In 1903, Stark issued a ""Maple Leaf Rag Song"", an arrangement of Joplin's music with words by Sydney Brown. ""Maple Leaf Rag"" is a multi-strain ragtime march with athletic bass lines and offbeat melodies. Each of the four parts features a recurring theme and a striding bass line with copious seventh chords. The piece may be considered the ""archetypal rag"" due to its influence on the genre; its"
"popularity as the Maple Leaf Rag did. The royalties earned by the sheet music sales did provide Joplin with a steady income for the rest of his life, however. Soon after the ""Maple Leaf Rag's"" publication the earliest recordings of the rag took place; band leader Wilbur Sweatman recorded it onto Phonograph cylinder a year later, but there are no known copies which have survived. The first surviving record of the rag comes from the second known recording of the rag by the United States Military Band from 1906. While Joplin never made an audio recording, his playing is preserved"
"paucity of true syncopation in the written score. On the other hand,like many cakewalk pieces, ""Mississippi Rag"" readily lends itself to syncopated embellishment by the performer, as Edwards' own rendition of the piece demonstrates. William Krell William Henry Krell (1868–1933) composed what is regarded as the first rag or ragtime composition in 1897 called Mississippi Rag, published in New York by S. Brainard's Sons and copyrighted on January 27, 1897. The sheet music stated that it was the first rag-time two step ever written and was first played by Krell's Orchestra in Chicago although the structure is in the form"
"Magnetic Rag ""Magnetic Rag"" is a 1914 ragtime piano composition by American composer Scott Joplin. It is significant for being the last rag which Joplin published in his lifetime, three years before his death in 1917. It is also unique in form and in some of the musical techniques employed in the composition. ""Magnetic Rag"" was written by an ailing Joplin near the end of his career, when interest in ragtime was waning. He was suffering from the latter stages of syphilis, the disease from which he died only three years later. Possibly as a result of Joplin's mood at"
"wasn’t until 1973, when the movie The Sting began the revival of ragtime with a musical score by Marvin Hamlisch, which adapted the original rags of Scott Joplin, that Zimmerman turned his attention to performing and recording. In 1974, he released the five-LP collection ‘’Scott Joplin: His Complete Works’’ on the Murray Hill Records label. In 1967 Zimmerman, along with Dave Bourne, Albert Huerta, Chuck McClure, and Bill Mitchell, founded the ‘’Maple Leaf Club’’, for which he edited its newsletter, """"The Rag Times"""". In 1998 the ‘’Maple Leaf Club’’ merged with the ‘’Rose Leaf Club’’. As a producer, Zimmerman created"
"That International Rag ""That International Rag"" is a song composed by Irving Berlin in 1913. Berlin wrote the song the night before its debut, when he needed a new opening number for his act while on tour in England. Days before the song's composition, Berlin held a press conference that backfired and led the public to question his musical talent. He wanted to impress his audience with a new song, so he stayed up overnight to compose the number and completed it just before his matinee in London. The performance was well received; it did well on vaudeville and in"
"Rifkin the opportunity to put Joplin's music on record Nonesuch Records ""created, almost alone, the Scott Joplin revival."" Magnetic Rag ""Magnetic Rag"" is a 1914 ragtime piano composition by American composer Scott Joplin. It is significant for being the last rag which Joplin published in his lifetime, three years before his death in 1917. It is also unique in form and in some of the musical techniques employed in the composition. ""Magnetic Rag"" was written by an ailing Joplin near the end of his career, when interest in ragtime was waning. He was suffering from the latter stages of syphilis,"
"published by a firm other than Stark's since Maple Leaf Rag. The copyright was registered June 6, 1903, and sheet music was published by the Val A. Reis Music Company of St. Louis. The piece was also released on Connorized piano rolls. Weeping Willow (rag) ""Weeping Willow"" is a 1903 classic piano ragtime composition by Scott Joplin. It was one of Joplin's simpler and less famous ragtime scores, written during a transitional period in his life, and one of the few pieces that Joplin cut as a piano roll in a 1916 session. ""Weeping Willow"" is sub-titled ""A rag time"
"Nick LaRocca Dominic James ""Nick"" LaRocca (April 11, 1889 – February 22, 1961), was an early jazz cornetist and trumpeter and the leader of the Original Dixieland Jass Band. He is the composer of one of the most recorded jazz classics of all-time, ""Tiger Rag"". He was part of what is generally regarded as the first recorded jazz band, a band which recorded and released the first jazz recording, ""Livery Stable Blues"" in 1917. Nick La Rocca was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of poor Sicilian immigrants. His father was Girolamo La Rocca of Salaparuta, Sicily, and his"
"Snake Rag Snake Rag is a 1923 Dixieland jazz standard composed by Joseph Oliver of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. It features Oliver and Louis Armstrong on cornet, Honoré Dutrey on trombone, Johnny Dodds on clarinet, Lil Hardin on piano, Baby Dodds on drums, and William Manuel Johnson on banjo. The rag was a result of improvisation during a session at Richmond, Indiana on April 6, 1923. The rag is known for its ""trick breaks and animal noises"", recalling ""crows cawing and swans trumpeting"". Many breaks of the cornets are chromatic. Beside this, although the piece is not typical ragtime"
"Steel Guitar Rag ""Steel Guitar Rag"" is the seminal Western swing instrumental credited with popularizing the steel guitar as an integral instrument in a Western band. Written by Leon McAuliffe, it was first recorded by Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys in 1936. The song bears a striking resemblance to ""Guitar Rag"" recorded by guitarist Sylvester Weaver in 1927., although others have claimed stylistic similarities to a popular Hawaiian song, ""On the Beach at Waikiki"" (words, G.H. Stover; music, Henry Kailimai; arrangement, Sonny Cunha; 1915), which was widely performed on the vaudeville circuits in the U.S. Many musicians and bands"
"The committee then contacted over 30 authors to write articles for the recordings which pertained to their areas of research. Smithsonian Folkways released the anthology on March 29, 2011. ""JAZZ: The Smithsonian Anthology"" is organized chronologically, covering the history and development of the genre from 1899, the estimated date of composition of ""Maple Leaf Rag"", to 2003, the date of the latest recording. The book focuses on the individual tracks, describing each recording with two to three pages of liner notes. The executive committee chose to place certain songs out of chronological arrangement in order to maximize the amount of"
"Ball"" with the Original Dixieland Jass Band was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Nick LaRocca Dominic James ""Nick"" LaRocca (April 11, 1889 – February 22, 1961), was an early jazz cornetist and trumpeter and the leader of the Original Dixieland Jass Band. He is the composer of one of the most recorded jazz classics of all-time, ""Tiger Rag"". He was part of what is generally regarded as the first recorded jazz band, a band which recorded and released the first jazz recording, ""Livery Stable Blues"" in 1917. Nick La Rocca was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son"
"time. ""Gladiolus Rag"", a later composition by Joplin, is a developed variant of the ""Maple Leaf Rag,"" showcasing Joplin's increasing musical sophistication, and is usually played at a somewhat slower tempo. In addition, the first strain of Joplin's ""The Cascades,"" ""Leola,"" and ""Sugar Cane"" are modeled on the structure used in the composition. In 1903 Stark issued a ""Maple Leaf Rag Song"", an arrangement of Joplin's music with words by Sydney Brown. Brown's lyrics tell the story of a poor man from Accomack County, Virginia, who stumbles into a ballroom where, in spite of his anxiety over the state of"
"Sugar-Foot Rag ""Sugar-Foot Rag"" (or Sugarfoot Rag) is a song written by Hank Garland and Vaughn Horton (given on Red Foley's record label as George Vaughn). It was originally recorded by Garland and released in 1949, selling over a million records. It was then recorded by American country music artist Red Foley in 1950. It was also recorded by American country music artist Jerry Reed and released in November 1979 as the lead single from his album, ""Texas Bound and Flyin"". The song reached a peak of number 12 on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot Country Singles chart and number 13"
"Black Mountain Rag Black Mountain Rag is the title of a recording by American folk music and country blues artists Doc Watson and Merle Watson, released in 2006. It contains songs taken from albums that Doc and Merle recorded on the Flying Fish label in the 1980s. A 1990 trio bonus track of ""Blackberry Blossom"" with Doc, Norman Blake and Tony Rice is included. Writing for Allmusic, music critic Steve Leggett wrote of the album ""... what is immediately striking about this compilation is how varied it is, even as it settles nicely into familiar ""Watson country."" Again, there's no"
"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. Although there were hundreds of rags in print by the time of the ""Maple Leaf Rag's"" publication, Joplin was not far behind. His first published rag was ""Original Rags"" (March 1899). The ""Maple Leaf Rag"" was already known in Sedalia prior to its publication in 1899; composer and pianist Brun Campbell claimed to have seen the manuscript of the work in or around 1898. Prior"
"George Botsford George Botsford (February 24, 1874 – February 11, 1949) was an American composer of ragtime and other forms of music. Botsford was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and grew up in Iowa. His first copyrighted number was ""The Katy Flyer -- Cake Walk,"" published in 1899. His most important rag is ""Black and White Rag,"" published in 1908. Other Botsford compositions include ""Grizzly Bear Rag,"" ""Chatterbox Rag,"" ""Pianophiends Rag,"" ""Texas Steer,"" ""Boomerang Rag,"" and ""Sailing Down the Chesapeake Bay."" Botsford moved to New York City and became a Tin Pan Alley composer. Around 1914-1915 he experimented with"
"is more noted, however, for his most famous composition, ""Steel Guitar Rag"", and his playing, along with that of Robert Lee Dunn (of Milton Brown's Musical Brownies), that popularized the steel guitar in the United States. His playing (and Dunn's) is also credited with inspiring the rhythm and blues electric guitar style occurring some twenty years later. After the war, McAuliffe returned to Tulsa and formed a Western swing band named the Cimarron Boys. In 1949, their song ""Panhandle Rag"" (Columbia) reached No. 6 on the ""Billboard"" country chart. McAuliffe recorded through the 1960s. In the 1970s, he participated in"
"revival of the 1970s brought it back to mainstream public notice once again. 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 stayed with the family of Arthur Marshall, who later became one of Joplin's students and a ragtime composer in his own right. Joplin 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"
"Johnny MacRae Johnny MacRae (February 15, 1929—July 3, 2013), born Fred A. MacRae, nicknamed ""Dog"" was an American country music composer credited with 235 songs released by recording artists including Ray Charles, George Jones, and Reba McEntire. His best known songs include ""You Can't Make a Heart Love Somebody"" (George Strait), ""Tonight the Heartache's on Me"" (Dixie Chicks), ""I'd Love to Lay You Down"" (Conway Twitty), ""I Still Believe in Waltzes"" (Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty), ""Goodbye Says It All"" (Blackhawk), and ""Living Proof"" (Ricky Van Shelton). MacRae was a native of Independence, Missouri. He began composing at age 30."
"Black and White Rag ""Black and White Rag"" is a 1908 ragtime composition by George Botsford. The first known recording of this piece was by Albert Benzler, recorded on Lakeside/U.S.Everlasting Cylinder #380 in June 1911. This recording is somewhat rare (Lakeside/U.S.Everlasting cylinders, though molded celluloid on a wax/fiber core, were made in small batches), and significant. Edison featured the ""Black and White Rag"" on one of his Early Diamond Disc Records (50116) from 1913 played by a Brass Orchestra. One of the best-known versions of this piece of music was recorded in 1952 by pianist Winifred Atwell, and helped her"
"Original Rags ""Original Rags"" (copyrighted March 15, 1899) was an early ragtime medley for piano. It was the first of Scott Joplin's rags to appear in print, in early 1899, preceding his ""Maple Leaf Rag"" by half a year. The tune's copyright was registered on March 15, 1899, and it was first published by Carl Hoffman of Kansas City, Missouri. The original cover page showed an elderly black man picking up rags in front of a ramshackle cabin, and has been interpreted as a double pun, first on the activities of a rag (or junk) picker, and second on a"
"of which young Joplin was largely unaware."" Joplin's first and most significant hit, the ""Maple Leaf Rag"", was described as the archetype of the classic rag, and influenced subsequent rag composers for at least 12 years after its initial publication thanks to its rhythmic patterns, melody lines, and harmony, though with the exception of Joseph Lamb, they generally failed to enlarge upon it. The opera's setting is a former slave community in an isolated forest near Joplin's childhood town Texarkana in September 1884. The plot centers on an 18-year-old woman Treemonisha who is taught to read by a white woman,"