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	Biography & History of Scott Joplin
		Among Joplin’s significant publications in St. Louis were Sunflower Slow Drag (a collaboration with Scott Hayden), Peacherine Rag, The Easy Winners (all in 1901); Cleopha, The Strenuous Life (a tribute to President Theodore Roosevelt), A Breeze from Alabama, Elite Syncopations, The Entertainer, and The Ragtime Dance (all in 1902).
		During the next two years, Joplin composed several new rags and songs, a vaudeville act, a musical, a symphony, and a piano concerto, but none of these were published and the manuscripts have been lost.
		Scott Joplin was the most sophisticated and tasteful ragtime composer of the era.
	www.scottjoplin.org /biography.htm (3346 words)

	Scott Joplin - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Joplin, Scott (1868-1917), American composer and pianist, one of the most important developers of ragtime music.
		The Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation in Sedalia, Missouri, the Cradle of Ragtime.
		Scott Joplin (born between June 1867 and January 1868 died April 1 1917) was a fl musician and composer of ragtime music.
	encarta.msn.com /Scott_Joplin.html (257 words)

	Scott Joplin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scott Joplin (Born between June 1867 and January 1868 [1] – died April 1, 1917) was an African American musician and composer of ragtime music.
		Joplin was born in Linden, Texas to Florence Givins and Giles (sometimes listed as "Jiles") Joplin.
		Joplin left little doubt as to how his compositions should be performed: as a precaution against the prevailing tendency of the day to up the tempo, he explicitly wrote in many of his scores that "ragtime should never be played fast".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scott_Joplin (1319 words)

	Scott Joplin Biography - AOL Music
		Scott Joplin was "the King of Ragtime Writers," a composer who elevated "banjo piano playing," a lowly entertainment associated with saloons and brothels, into an American art form loved by millions.
		Joplin also married for a second time to a woman who died only a few weeks into their marriage after a bout with pneumonia, plunging Joplin into another bout of despair.
		Joplin was tireless and selfless in his advocacy of his fellow ragtime composers, collaborating with James Scott, Arthur Marshall, Louis Chauvin, and Scott Hayden and helping to arrange others by Artie Matthews and the white New Jersey composer Joseph Lamb, whose work Joplin pitched to Stark.
	music.aol.com /artist/scott-joplin/6856/biography (900 words)

	SPECTRUM Biographies - Scott Joplin
		In 1902, Joplin's first major composition was a ballet suite that utilized the rhythms of a type of music called "ragtime." Ragtime was a combination of folk tunes, African rhythms, and Creole influences.
		Joplin became so involved with the success, or lack of it, of Treemonisha that he suffered a collapse in 1911 followed by a nervous breakdown that caused him to be institutionalized in 1916.
		Joplin's most famous compositions are the Maple Leaf Rag, and The Entertainer, which became popular again when it was heard in the movie The Sting.
	www.incwell.com /Biographies/Joplin.html (402 words)

	Scott Joplin
		Scott Joplin was a quiet, serious man who composed some of the liveliest, happiest music ever written.
		Joplin's reaction to all of this was an apparent rejection of organized religion, although he was not an atheist, and he seems never to have been married in a religious ceremony.
		Joplin died of syphilis in 1917 at the age of 49.
	www.jeffreychappell.com /kb_joplin.htm (1357 words)

	Scott Joplin: King of Ragtime (1868-1917)
		Joplin's syncopated musical style found expression in the popular idiom of piano Ragtime, a style that flourished along the Mississippi river in the closing decade of the Nineteenth Century and which endured as a prominent piano style until the end of World War I. To this improvisational genre Joplin brought great artistry, craftsmanship, and elegance.
		Scott Joplin was the child of a former slave and a free-born fl woman, Giles and Florence Givens Joplin, and he grew up in the town of Texarkana on the Texas-Arkansas border.
		Joplin’s Rags, unlike those of most of his contemporaries, are notable for their melodically interesting inner voices, consistent and logical voice-leading, subtle structural relationships and rich chromatic harmonies supported by strongly directed bass lines.
	www.carolinaclassical.com /joplin/index.html (1480 words)

	Scott Joplin -(MP3) Rags & Dance Music
		Scott Joplin was the talented son of an ex slave who was lucky enough to receive a classical music education.
		Piano sheet music and player rolls were the only viable means of publishing this sort of music at the time but we know that just like Jelly Roll Morton, Scott Joplin played in bands with a range of instruments including cornets, besides the piano.
		Joplin was the first to have his rags published as sheet music - crossing the racial divide from the informal fl musical culture in dance halls and bars to the piano fortes in the parlors of the white middle class homes at the end of the nineteenth century and the start of the twentieth.
	www.download2mp3.com /joplin.htm (564 words)

	Scott Joplin - famous ragtime composer
		Born in Texas in 1868, Scott Joplin was one of the originators of the new Ragtime music and certainly the best-known of such composers.
		Joplin then settled in St. Louis for a number of years, playing the cornet in a band and forming his own vocal group with his brothers for which he started writing songs.
		Joplin's rags were also used in the sequel "The Sting 2" adapted by Lalo Schifrin and also in the movie "Pretty Baby" which included Swipesy and several other rags.
	www.mfiles.co.uk /composers/Scott-Joplin.htm (687 words)

	Edward A. Berlin's Website of Ragtime and Scholarship - SCOTT JOPLIN: Brief Biographical Sketch
		Joplin, according to his widow Lottie, corresponded with Weiss his entire life, giving rise to the speculation of Weiss' importance in the formation of Joplin's musical aesthetic.
		Joplin, on hearing it, exclaimed that the song was stolen from his still-unpublished opera, and he thereupon changed the section that resembled Berlin's song.
		Joplin rags spanned the classical-pop divide as it received performances by vast numbers in both cultural camps, and Joplin recordings reached the highest ranks in both classical and pop record charts.
	www.edwardaberlin.com /work4.htm (2702 words)

	Scott Joplin biography - 8notes.com
		Joplin wanted to experiment further with compositions like Treemonisha, but by 1916 he was suffering from the effects of terminal syphilis.
		Joplin's musical papers, including unpublished manuscripts, were willed to Joplin's friend and the executor of his will, musician and composer Wilber Sweatman.
		Scott Joplin: Ragtime for Violin (6 Scott Joplin Rags) Composed by Scott Joplin (1868-1917), arranged by Itzhak Perlman.
	www.8notes.com /biographies/joplin.asp (1384 words)

	VH1.com : Scott Joplin : Biography - Urge Music Downloads
		Joplin soon had many other rags published that helped to make ragtime the pop music of its day, but the tragedy of his life was that his goals were beyond ragtime.
		By 1910 Joplin was becoming ill with syphilis and at his death in 1917, ragtime was in the process of being replaced by jazz.
		Ironically, 57 years after his death, Scott Joplin finally became a household name because his music (most notably "The Entertainer") was used by Marvin Hamlisch in his score for the popular film The Sting.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/joplin_scott/bio.jhtml (332 words)

	Scott Joplin, African American Composer & Pianist
		Joplin's father, who had come to Texarkana for the good wages of railroad work, bought his son a used piano as soon as he could afford one.
		Joplin left home while still a teenager, and it is thought that he then supported himself as an itinerant pianist working at bars and brothels in such places as St. Louis, Memphis and Dallas.
		Joplin attempted to establish himself as a composer of larger-scale works, with a folk ballet called The Ragtime Dance in 1902 and a 1903 opera A Guest of Honor, but neither work was performed widely.
	chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com /Joplin.html (1448 words)

	Perfessor Bill Edwards - Scott Joplin Compositions (1895-1905)
		Scott Joplin - 1896: Joplin's second published march was nowhere near as ambitious as his first instrumental opus, The Great Crush Collision, but it demonstrated his ability to assemble well-structured themes and is not all that far off from the ragtime he would be writing in short order.
		Scott Joplin - 1902: This exuberant dance piece actually exists in two forms, and was a source of one of the first wedges in the relationship between Joplin and publisher John Stark, his greatest champion.
		Scott Joplin - 1904: Although ragtime for the most part was not overtly encouraged on the main grounds of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and most participating ragtime pianists were employed in venues on the amusement oriented Pike, some exceptions were made.
	www.perfessorbill.com /pbmidi15.shtml (6753 words)

	Scott Joplin
		Scott Joplin (1868–1917), generally acknowledged as the "King of Ragtime," was born into a musical family.
		While still in his early teens, Scott joined the ranks of itinerant musicians, earning his way by playing piano in the honky-tonks of villages and towns in the Mississippi Valley country and absorbing all the while the folk music of his people and the "jig piano" style of the self-taught pianists with whom he worked.
		Joplin was crushed; his mind, which had begun to show some evidences of strain even before 1915, gave way completely and in 1917 he died a broken man.
	www.duboislc.org /ShadesOfBlack/ScottJoplin.html (753 words)

	Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag/A Ragtime Timeline
		Scott Joplin, the composer, spent only a few years of his life in Sedalia before he moved on to St. Louis and New York.
		Joplin wasn't the only composer of ragtime in the 1890s, or even the first one.
		1868 Scott Joplin is born in North Texas, the son of a former slave.
	music.mpr.org /features/9905_ragtime/index.shtml (1264 words)

	Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Joplin
		Early in Joplin's professional career he was a singer with vocal groups, a performer on several instruments (piano, cornet, violin), and a member of a minstrel troupe.
		Joplin went to New York in 1907 in an effort to find a backer and publisher for the opera on which he was then working.
		Joplin claimed in 1911 that he brought the score of "Treemonisha" to Berlin in an attempt to have it published.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/joplin.html (1913 words)

	Scott Joplin
		September 1884 seems to be a seminal month in Joplin's life, signifying either his departure from the border town or the date when he became an assistant teacher in Texarkana's Negro school.
		Joplin had contracted syphilis some years earlier, and by 1916 his health had deteriorated considerably, as indicated by his inconsistent playing on the piano rolls he recorded.
		Joplin was married twice: to Belle Hayden (1901-03) and Lottie Stokes (from ca.
	www.famoustexans.com /scottjoplin.htm (757 words)

	Scott Joplin - Classical music composer
		Scott Joplin considered his most important work to be the opera "Treemonisha" beautifully recorded by Deutsche Grammophon by Gunther Schuller and the Houston Grand Opera in the late 1970's.
		Scott Joplin was born in East Texas, USA, between 1 june 1867 and mid-January 1868.
		Joplin was given the nickname "King of Ragtime" by his agent.
	www.classical-composers.org /comp/joplin (1611 words)

	The My Hero Project - Scott Joplin
		Scott Joplin was born near Linden, Texas, in 1867 or 1868 (the exact year is unknown).
		His father was a former slave, but when Scott was only around seven years old, his father left work in the fields and took his family to Texarkana, which is a small town nestled directly on the Texas-Arkansas border.
		Scott Joplin never received the credit, nor the recognition he deserved until over half a century after his death.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=s_joplin (1031 words)

	The Unconservatory - Scott Joplin
		Joplin won a special Pulitzer Prize in 1976, in part because of this opera and his special contribution to American music.
		Joplin claimed that the melody for "Alexander’s Ragtime Band," a big hit in 1911 and one of Irving Berlin’s early successes was stolen from Treemonisha.
		Joplin claimed that he then had to re-write the stolen melody, one of the main themes of the opera, so as not to infringe on Berlin’s copyright.
	www.unconservatory.org /articles/joplin.html (745 words)

	•• Biography of Scott Joplin - PianoParadise ••
		Joplin was born near Linden, Texas to Florence Givins and Jiles Joplin.
		Joplin continued writing and publishing, and in those days before recorded music was a best-selling composer based on sales of sheet music.
		Scott Joplin: The Sting Composed by Scott Joplin (1868-1917), arranged by Gunther Schuller (1925-), Marvin Hamlisch.
	www.pianoparadise.com /joplin.html (1266 words)

	Scott Joplin
		Scott Joplin was born on November 24, 1868 in Texarkana, Arkansas.
		Scott Joplin wrote many other rags which include such famous tunes as: Sugar Cane Rag, Wall Street Rag, Peacherine Rag, Gladiolus Rag, Palm Leaf Rag, The School of Ragtime, and Magnetic Ragtime.
		Scott Joplin died on April 11, 1917 in New York, New York.
	www.esperstamps.org /h6.htm (296 words)

	Essentials of Music - Composers
		In 1908, Scott Joplin published a short book of studies to teach the style of ragtime to amateur pianists.
		Joplin was the son of a former slave, and grew up in a musical family.
		Joplin's music soon fell out of style with the development of the newer styles of jazz.
	www.essentialsofmusic.com /composer/joplin.html (662 words)

	Scott Joplin
		The widespread popularity of Joplin's music during his lifetime was the first step on the long road that led to the acceptance of African-American music, and particularly jazz, as an important and serious art.
		When Scott Joplin was born, the Civil War had recently freed the African-American slaves in the U.S., but almost a century would pass before the arrival of the Civil Rights movement.
		Scott Joplin inhabited a world in which a fl man's career choices were basically limited to preacher, teacher, musician, or poorly paid manual laborer.
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