Very nice, apart from the brief reset. I loved the deliberate tempo you chose, I've always read that Joplin found ragtime to be fairly low-quality bawdy house entertainment, that the house pianists would compete to see who could race through faster with no regard for the musicality. He decided to try and compose top-quality rags - and OMG, mission accomplished! - and he added the famous note to all his sheet music that ragtime should never be played fast. He was referring specifically to the lowbrow showing off, but even now, when I hear someone playing ragtime at a moderate and respectful pace, one that gives the listener time to process the emotion in the phrases, I imagine Joplin nodding appreciately. His pieces obviously HAVE emotions, where the original barroom rags only had one emotion - beer. lol Thanks for sharing the video!
Very nice, apart from the brief reset. I loved the deliberate tempo you chose, I've always read that Joplin found ragtime to be fairly low-quality bawdy house entertainment, that the house pianists would compete to see who could race through faster with no regard for the musicality. He decided to try and compose top-quality rags - and OMG, mission accomplished! - and he added the famous note to all his sheet music that ragtime should never be played fast. He was referring specifically to the lowbrow showing off, but even now, when I hear someone playing ragtime at a moderate and respectful pace, one that gives the listener time to process the emotion in the phrases, I imagine Joplin nodding appreciately. His pieces obviously HAVE emotions, where the original barroom rags only had one emotion - beer. lol Thanks for sharing the video!
Personally, I like ragtime played more slowly, like this. Racing though rag pieces you lose the intricacies and wonderful syncopations.