Joplin - Complete Rags for Piano (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics): Schirmer Library of Classics Volume 2020 Piano Solo

The Definitive Scott Joplin Ragtime Collection. Experience the brilliance of Scott Joplin’s timeless ragtime music with this complete collection of his greatest works. Published by Schirmer’s Library of Musical Classics, this edition features 42 of Joplin’s most iconic rags, making it an essential resource for pianists, educators, and collectors. With carefully engraved notation, this book ensures clarity and accuracy, allowing musicians to fully embrace Joplin’s unique rhythmic and harmonic style. Songs Included. This comprehensive collection includes: Bethena (Ragtime Waltz) * A Breeze from Alabama * The Cascades * The Chrysanthemum * Country Club * The Easy Winners * Elite Syncopations * The Entertainer * Eugenia * Euphonic Sounds * The Favorite * Felicity Rag * Fig Leaf Rag * Gladiolus Rag * Heliotrope Bouquet * Kismet Rag * Leola * Lily Queen * Magnetic Rag * Maple Leaf Rag * The Nonpareil * Original Rags * Palm Leaf Rag * Paragon Rag * Peacherine Rag * Pine Apple Rag * Pleasant Moments (Ragtime Waltz) * Rag Time Dance * Reflection Rag * Rose Leaf Rag * Scott Joplin’s New Rag * Search-Light Rag * Solace * Something Doing * Stoptime Rag * The Strenuous Life * Sugar Cane Rag * Sun Flower Slow Drag * Swipesy * The Sycamore * Wall Street Rag * Weeping Willow. Authentic and High-Quality Sheet Music. Designed for advanced pianists, this collection provides faithful transcriptions of Joplin’s original compositions. Perfect for professional musicians, students, and music teachers, this book is a valuable addition to any piano repertoire. Whether you're studying ragtime history, performing in recitals, or expanding your classical and jazz skills, this collection delivers an authentic and immersive playing experience. Bring the lively and expressive rhythms of Scott Joplin’s ragtime to life with this complete collection. Order now and explore the genius of one of history’s greatest composers!

Throughout history, few musical crazes have hit with such impact, had such a heyday and lingered so hauntingly as ragtime. Ragtime arrived on the upswing of Tin Pan Alley, when the popularity of pianos in the home was reaching its peak and an endless stream of sheet music flowed out to meet the demand. In the early 1900s, no name was more prominent on those sheet-music covers and no one wrote ragtime music more brilliantly than Scott Joplin.
This wonderful book brings together in one superbly produced playing edition all thirty-eight of Scott Joplin's piano rags, including his six collaborations, plus Joplin's own primer on how to play ragtime, the "School of Ragtime." Each rag has been reprinted, along with its sheet-music cover, from the original publisher's edition.
At the Williams' Brothers saloon in Sedalia, Missouri, Scott Joplin was known as "The Entertainer," and in 1897, in the upstairs room called the Maple Leaf Club, he wrote the rag that would one day be the first to sell over a million copies in sheet-music form. In time the "Maple Leaf Rag" also became the most recorded composition on piano roll, with forty known versions.
Most of Joplin's other rags were hits as well. Many bear the playful names that were given most rags, names like "The Strenuous Life," "Heliotrope Bouquet," and his last published piece, the "Silver Swan Rag." One of them, "The Entertainer," triggered a major revival of interest in his work when it was incorporated into the score of the popular film The Sting. All of them are here, each bearing the mark of Joplin's supreme originality. As ragtime authority David A. Jasen observes in his Introduction: "For pianists everywhere, this folio contains ragtime masterpieces which, when learned, will provide unlimited joy."
Original Dover (1988) publication, reprinted from sheet music for 38 piano rags originally issued by various music publishers. 39 illustrations. Introduction by David A. Jasen. "School of Ragtime" by Scott Joplin.