Scott Joplin is celebrated as the United States? first well-known black composer, making his name as a writer of piano rags. His life was a constant struggle with adversity, and Joplin died relatively young in 1917, at the dawn of the recording age. Few remembered Joplin?s music until a revival in the 1970s brought The Entertainer and others to the world?s attention. Nowadays Scott Joplin has taken his rightful place in the gallery of great American composers.

The Rags included in this collection are, The Entertainer, The Maple Leaf Rag, The Easy Winners, The Elite Syncopations and The Favorite.

They have been arranged as solos for one Cello with piano accompaniment, and include all sections of the original compositions. You will download one pdf file that contains both 22 pages of piano score and the 10 page solo part. These pieces are suitable for players at an intermediate and advanced intermediate level. Musicians will find these Ragtime solos ideal for formal and informal performances, light and fun, yet still a serious and vitally important part of the American musical heritage. The overall performance time for all five is around 25 minutes.

Teachers will enjoy using these arrangements as a fun way to help with phrasing, syncopated rhythms and light articulation.

Click on the YouTube link to see and hear samples from the collection. There are many more top quality arrangements and compositions by David McKeown for you to browse at http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/david-mckeown/6203

Scott Joplin is celebrated as the United States? first well-known black composer, making his name as a writer of piano rags. His life was a constant struggle with adversity, and Joplin died relatively young in 1917, at the dawn of the recording age. Few remembered Joplin?s music until a revival in the 1970s brought The Entertainer and others to the world?s attention. Nowadays Scott Joplin has taken his rightful place in the gallery of great American composers.

The Rags included in this collection are, The Entertainer, The Maple Leaf Rag, The Easy Winners, The Elite Syncopations and The Favorite.

They have been arranged as solos for one Clarinet with piano accompaniment, and include all sections of the original compositions. You will download one pdf file that contains both 22 pages of piano score and the 10 page solo part. These pieces are suitable for players at an intermediate and advanced intermediate level. Musicians will find these Ragtime solos ideal for formal and informal performances, light and fun, yet still a serious and vitally important part of the American musical heritage. The overall performance time for all five is around 25 minutes.

Teachers will enjoy using these arrangements as a fun way to help with phrasing, syncopated rhythms and light articulation.

Song List: Ain't Gonna Get No Supper Here Tonight Altamont Angelina Baker (aka Angeline the Baker) Antelope Gap Arkansas Traveler Avalon Quickstep And The Cat Came Back Barlow Knife (John Salyer) Barlow Knife (Song) Banjo Tramp Been To The East, Been To The West Big Eyed Rabbit Big John McNeil Big Scioto Bill Cheatam Billy In The Low Ground Black Eyed Suzianna (aka Susiana) Black Cat in a Briar Patch Black Hills Waltz Black Jack GroveBlackbird Says to the CrowBoatman Bob Tailed Mule Booth Shot Lincoln Bowl-a-Rama Breaking Up Christmas Briar Picker Brown Broken Down Gambler Buck Mountain Buffalo Gals (KY version in G) Buffalo Gals (Common version in G) Buffalo Gals (in A) Buckin' Dun ull at the Wagon Camp Chase Camp Meeting on the 4th of July Candy Girl Chase the Squirrel Chattanooga Cincinnati Hornpipe Cherokee Shuffle (in A) Cherokee Shuffle (in D) Chinese Breakdown Climbing the Golden Stairs Chinquapin Hunting (in A) Chinquapin Hunting (in D � Stamper) Coast Is Clear Cluck Old Hen Colored Aristocracy Cookhouse Joe Crow Little Rooster Crook Brothers Breakdown Crow Creek Cuffy Cuckoo's Nest in D Cuckoo's Nest in A (aka Richmond) Dance All Night with a Bottle in My Hand Devil Eat the Groundhog Dinah Doctor, Doctor Dogs in the Dishes Double File Dry And Dusty Drunken Hiccups Ducks on the Mill Pond Dubuque Duck River Ducks in the pond Duke of Kent's Waltz Mr. Fishar's Hornpipe (aka Fisher's Hornpipe) Durang's Hornpipe Dusty Miller Ebenezer