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| Composer : | Joplin, Scott (1867 - 1917) | ||||||
| Instrumentation : | Piano solo4 other versions | ||||||
| Style : | Ragtime | ||||||
| Key : | B♭ major | ||||||
| Arranger : Publisher : | Pete, Farrier (1953 - ) | ||||||
| Date : | 1906 | ||||||
| Copyright : | © CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 by Farrier Pete | ||||||
| Added by farrierpete, 18 Jun 2021 Sources: https://imslp.org/wiki/Eugenia_(Joplin%2C_Scott), https://www.loc.gov/resource/ihas.200033253.0/?sp=3(Inf ormation from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_S cott_Joplin) Scott Joplin was born in Arkansas in around 1867, just outside Texarkana, and was a street perfor-mer before settling in Sedalia, Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri, and finally New York City where hedied in 1917. He was an American composer and pianist, who achieved fame for his ragtime com-positions, and was dubbed "The King of Ragtime." During his career, Joplin wrote over 40 originalragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag"(1899), has been recognized as the archetypal rag and influenced subsequent rag composers forthanks to its rhythmic patterns, melody lines, and harmony. His finances were precarious throughout his career, despite a steady income from the "Maple LeafRag." Joplin had the majority of his works published by John Stark of Sedalia, Missouri, althoughhe did use other lesser-known companies including his own "Scott Joplin Music Publishing Company." His first opera, A Guest of Honor, was lost after an unsuccessful tour in 1903. After the 1953 death of his widow, Lottie, a number of manuscripts of unpublished work were lost and no copiesof them are known to exist. When Joplin was learning the piano, serious musical circles condemned ragtime because of itsassociation with the vulgar and insane songs of Tin Pan Alley. As a composer, Joplin refined rag-time, developing it from the dance music played by pianists in brothels in cities like St. Louis. This new art form, the classic rag, combined Afro-American folk music's syncopation and nineteenth-century European romanticism, with its harmonic schemes and its march-like tempos, in particularthe works of John Philip Sousa. With this as a foundation, Joplin intended his compositions to beplayed exactly as he wrote them – without improvisation. Joplin wrote his rags as "classical" musicto raise ragtime above its "cheap bordello" origins and produced work which opera historian Elise Kirk described as "...more tuneful, contrapuntal, infectious, and harmonically colorful than anyothers of his era." There are many inconsistencies between the titles of compositions, their subtitles, and their respective cover titles, which was seen by the editor of the collected works as reflecting "an editorialcasualness" on the part of the publishers, and indicating a genre in which many dance-steps couldbe performed interchangeably. Many of the works cannot be dated with certainty and the pieceswere not always sent to the Copyright Office for copyright registration. In many cases the publication date is the only indication of when a piece was composed. Title:Eugenia Genre Ragtime (March) Year 1906 Form : Intro AA BB A C D C D C Keys: Bb/Bb/Bb/Eb... License:© CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 (Creative Commons - Attribution - Non commercial - Share alike) Own experiences and remarks I worked out this ragtime from the sources mentioned above, and I made it my own arrangementand sound mix ("Raumklang +") with help from my favorite music program called MuseScore ver.3.6.2. MuseScore contains the GeneralMIDI-compatible software synthesizer "FluidSynth" with the standard GM soundfont MuseScore_General_HQ.sf3 as well as the drum specialized synthe-sizer "Zerberus" (MS-Drumline-PlugIn) as an integral part. See:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuseScore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FluidSynth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundFont MuseScore was programmed by Werner Schweer, Nicolas Froment and Thomas Bonte (Germany/Belgium), is available as Open Source Software (GNU General Public License) without restrictions and runs under Windows, MacOS, Linux. It is available from www.musescore.org incl. soundfont and manual download free of charge for everyone. I can unreservedly recommend this really powerful software with it’s excellent graphical user interface. This OpenSource program puts even commercial software such as "Finale" "easily into the pocket" (own test!). What I can unfortunately no more recommend without reservation is registering as a user on musescore.com, too (but that's another story). This arrangement and especially the sound of an "old" piano is something I'm a little proud of, to behonest. I call the concept for my Sound Remix "Raumklang +", and I didn't invent it’s principles by myself, but adapted them for the MuseScore-Software. Please listen to the attached .mp3 file through a good pair of headphones. I don't think you can distinguish the sound of the well accentu-ated playback of the GM synthesizer from a "real" piano anymore - except by the constancy in playback tempo (which a human being could not keep like that). But even that is programmable. Will you let me know how you like my sound mix and what you think of it? CU, have fun and: Set the Music free (from that prison on the old library shelves!) Best Regards FarrierPete Source / Web : | IMSLP.org | Sheet central : | Eugenia (7 sheet music) | | |||
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