@001 Welcome to the Ragtime Pianist by PG Music, distributed by Arbiter Pro MIDI. This demo is limited to 5 pieces of music (the ones marked *), and has limited
biographies and trivia questions. To view the score, copy PGMUSIC.TTF into c:\windows\system. The full version of Jazz Pianist costs 49 pounds. Call 081 202 1199 for further details.
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@006 Take Me Out To The Ball Game. This well known baseball "anthem" is played here in a spirited singalong style. Melody is played an octave lower in 2nd chorus. Key of C,
modulating to Db.
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@026 Dill Pickles by Scott Joplin (and Charles Daniels)
@027 The Easy Winners - a ragtime two-step by Scott Joplin(Publisher: Scott Joplin 1901). For reasons unknown, Stark did not publish this piece and Joplin had to be his own
publisher. Perhaps his puritanical nature could not support a piece that was written in vindication of sport, including horse-racing. This is all in the cover; the music is
simply an easy on the ear, melodious rag in Joplin's mot flowing vein. It introduces a favorite and most effective flattening of the Bb and the Eb in the second and third bars
of the first strain and a forward-looking (for its time) bit of 'naturalization' at the end of the second. It floats along ideally at an easy-paced tempo of about (144).
@028 Elite Syncopations by Scott Joplin. ( Saint Louis: John Stark & Co., 1902). After several half-hearted works Elite Syncopations comes as a sturdy, honest-to-goodness
kind of rag that holds a promise of good things to come. After a no-nonsense introduction it has a new kind of first strain that is faintly related to Maple Leaf but also
looks forward to a good many ragtime songs that were to populate Tin Pan Alley. The second strain is one of Joplin's delightful simple piccolo tunes that lends itself nicely
to baroque-style ornamentation and an infinite variety of approaches. It is only modestly syncopated by entirely memorable. The two final strains are pleasant and competent
without being inspired, the last also having a hint of maple Leaf's second strain about it. This particular rag might be pointed out as an ideal starting point for aspiring
pianists in the ragtime idiom; much less finger stretching than The Entertainer; a sort of ragtime primer and probably the easiest to play. Like most, it is marked 'not fast'
and falls easily into the (144) tempo that many mid-period Joplin rags hover around, but it can be much faster.
@029 The Entertainer - a ragtime two-step by Scott Joplin (The Entertainer. December 29, 1902. John Stark & Son, St. Louis).This was the number one song on the "top ten"
popular song charts during 1974 - a phenomenal occurrence seventy-two years after it was published. Section A features an advanced use of a pianistic call-and-response pattern
with dynamic markings indicated by the composer. In section B, the third and fourth measures act as a fill-in between the first two and the fifth and sixth, similar to
arrangements of pieces for string orchestra. In the rare two-mandolin-and-guitar arrangement issued by Stark, the string concept is clearly realized especially in the trio.
It was even dedicated to "James Brown and His Mandolin Club." Just six months after it appeared on sheet music counters, Monroe H. Rosenfeld, a prominent Tin Pan Alley
lyricist-composer, wrote about Joplin in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat of June 7, 1903: "Probably the best and most euphonious of his latter day compositions is The
Entertainer. It is a jingling work of a very original character, embracing various strains of a retentive character which set the foot in spontaneous action and leave an
indelible imprint on the tympanum." This alluring composition has been one of the reasons for the upsurge of interest in Joplin and this came about partly because we heard it
played at a slow and balanced tempo by Joshua Rifkin, and partly because it has responded so well to period orchestral treatment. It is in a completely happy vein, restful,
honest, folky but also beautifully constructed and entirely melodious. The simple variant of the typical ragtime opening augers well and leaves us on tiptoe. The first strain
is leisurely and the octave chords with an added interior third, although not easy to play, probably have the intended effect of imitating mandolin chording - the piece was
dedicated to James Brown and his Mandolin Club. Structure: INTRO AA BB A CC INTRO-2 DD
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