 | The Entertainer Scott Joplin Saxophone Tenor |
| Composer |  Joplin, Scott (1867 - 1917) | ||
| Instrumentation | Saxophone Tenor | ||
| Sheet central | The Entertainer (108 sheet music) | ||
| Style | Ragtime | ||
| Publisher | Lewis, Alastair | ||
| Copyright | Copyright © Alastair Lewis | ||
| Added by alastair-lewis, 16 Jul 2011
'The Entertainer' by Scott Joplin is a ragtime piece
originally for piano written in 1802. The piece is
sub-titled "A Rag Time Two Step" which was a popular
dance at that time, and was a style common to many
other rags.
The music is dedicated to "James Brown and his Mandolin Club". The author Rudi Blesh wrote that "some of the melodies recall the pluckings and the fast tremolos of the little steel-stringed plectrum instruments..." Joplin's masterpiece returned to international ...(+) | |||
