@PC...You might say the same about Judy Garland's big screen, small screen and stage performances. In fact, I suspect Garland and Joplin would've been good friends -- as artists!
No way he could have imagined! I'm one of the old boomers and I never could have imagined cell phones with computer displays and less than the size of a deck of cards. This music lives on with Mozart and Beethoven, Brubeck and Armstrong!
If he came back right now and we played one of his songs on a computer he would straight die again from sheer fright. It would literally like break his brain.
@@user-cj6pe3vy3b Two of my favourites of his. Heliotrope Boquet is another one with bittersweet parts, though those were likely written by Louis Chauvin (and are quite distinct from the other parts, which sound a lot more like classic Joplin).
He was one of the greatest American musical composers of all time. His music is loved by all Americans of every ethnicity and even non-Americans who love American culture. Rest in peace Mr Scott Joplin.
Indeed...I am 72, and, like most people, have my problems now and again...but putting this music on makes me dance and sing. I probably look a proper idiot, but I don't care : It makes me feel young and happy again.
Can you imagine walking down some cobbled street back then, having heard nothing but classical music your entire life, and then hearing this glorious racket drifting out from some open window?
I was walking home from the theater one night with my brother and sister and I heard a radio playing opera so clearly- only after a moment, i recognised the voice. My aunt was singing! It was so facinating.
There was an episode of Murdoch Mysteries where ragtime came to Toronto for the first time, and while some people liked it, others considered it a bunch of noise since the ragged syncopations didn't agree with them, and still others considered it unholy music that should be banned. Probably not the most accurate view, but it was a fun episode to watch.
@Cazzie S soulful? There is plenty of classical music which is way more soulfoul than this. This kind of music is not considered classical music because it isn't really as complex as classical music, in terms of harmony and counterpoint, also, by the time this was composed classical was starting dodecafony, impressionism, etc, which are even more complex than the music written before and this didn't really represent any kind of vanguard. Nevertheless, I like this music
It was only thanks to Kevin's cover I found the name for The Entertainer and got here, been looking for Scott for years bt nobody I talked to ever knew who wrote all these masterpieces, or what any of them are actually called. Kevin and Scott are true heroes.
@@jrjr648 You have no idea how much i agree. All i hear about ragtime these days is Saloon comparisons and "Dont shoot the pianist", but the musicality and structure gets binned. sorry for the rant im just passionate today since i just saw treemonisha 😏
Does anyone ever unironically listen to Kevin MacLeod? I just associate his music with cancerous youtube videos. Scott Joplin's music is actually pretty good.
« in the fall of 1900, the “Maple Leaf Rag” caught on with the general public, and became the first piece of sheet music to sell more than one million copies-a figure all the more stunning when one realizes that there were fewer than 100,000 professional musicians and music teachers in the United States at the time. » -- Ted Gioia, The History of Jazz
William Fishman that’s around the time Joplin Created the magnetic rag, the last piece he made before syphilis forced him Into an asylum. Might be wrong.
"became the first piece of sheet music to sell more than one million copies" CORRECTION: Maple Leaf Rag was the first piece of INSTRUMENTAL sheet music to sell more than one million copies. "Old Folks at Home" by Stephen Foster (Way Down Upon the Swanee River), published in 1851, sold more than 20 million copies of sheet music, but that one had vocals.
Yes fewer than 100k professional musicians which just means people whose job they get paid for is playing music. Put back in those days people had pianos in their home and someone in the family or whoever at a party or something would play. This was before recorded music to listen at home tech really existed and so that’s how people listened to music in their homes.
This is a very well recorded album...can hear the notes travel up and down the keyboard. Scott Joplin wasn't just a gift to America, he was a gift to the World.
This album sounds like it was recorded in a tin can with a cheap piano. Additionally, the pieces are performed mechanically, and sometimes too fast as well.
Its June 2024. No matter how many times I listen to this, I never get tired of it. I just love old music . Love Scott joplin music .. ❤.. ...from Texas
Well, I feel like Scott was a big part of American classical music. In my opinion, he really bridged the gap between European classical and American classical.
It’s incredible that this one man managed to create so many instantly recognisable and famous pieces. He’s probably made more famous songs than most musicians ever will
There were hundreds of people writing rag tunes inspired by Joplin, thousands of tunes that have been lost to history. But Joplin’s works were published and I suppose that’s how they survived.
i remember back in 6th grade being asked to write an essay about who from the past i would want to meet and why..i wrote immediately about scott joplin
For me, ragtime tunes have an amazing medicinal effect when i'm feeling stressed. It's a soothing mental and emotional vacation with blue skies, warm sun, fresh sea breezes, and fragrant blossoms.
Scott Joplin published a tutorial with very precise instructions on how he wanted his rags to be played. One of his demands was precision. Also, Scott Joplin was taught classical music.
I like how the piano is professionally "DETUNED" giving it that honkytonk" RING" I use to play a lot of his music on piano!!!.( entertainer, maple leaf rag, got the most requests)
I think the main reason he isnt praised as much as the ones that came before him is because he only wrote like, 80 works. Even though he deeply influenced American Music and broke racial barriers, people like Bach literally wrote HUNDREDS of masterpieces. Not only that but he goes to the "top 100 greatest musicians of all time" category, and they only teach about the top 5 usually
One of the best musicians who ever lived! The Entertainer is an amazing piece of music especially when Mr. Joplin plays it. Too bad he did not get the recognition he deserved when he was alive due to prejudice. May your soul rest in peace, Mr Joplin.
I am such a big fan of this genius , so many people have asked me' magic fingers maxwell ' if they could play along side me on RUclips sadly the people who I would love to do this with are so far above me that I can only dream of doing it, and in this case only his music lives on and if there is any justice it will live on for ever . I sit at your feet
@@mattdad8429 That is an idiotic statement. Popular music had been written for centuries around the world. Even in America, and Stephen Foster and John Phillip Sousa had been writing popular songs decades earlier. SMH
Joplin deserves A LOT LOT more credit for his contribution to classical popular music than what he is given. He indeed was a very accomplished pianist and composer!.
I could listen to this ragtime all day. It's not intrusive, angry, melancholy or bombastic. Reminds me of a summer afternoon picnic. They danced something called a 'cake walk' to this in its day. A risque dance at the time. It's as American as apple pie. Love it!
@@gregoryclemen1870 True. And it seems to me that rock and roll was somewhat a dumbing down of the complexity and nuance of Rag. And I grew up in the rock and roll age.
@@LifeIsThePrayer , it is a cross between COUNTRY and R&B music, in 1955 it was known as ROCK-A-BILLY music. correct me if I am wrong, I think" rock-&-roll" music was coined by the disk jocky ALLEN FRIED.
There is a lot to be said for slowing down the tempo for many songs. Too many artists play songs too fast in an effort to show off. "Look at me, I'm so talented I can play this song faster than anyone else!"
@@grantcolman7087 Funny, because there's a recording of him playing it, and he actually plays it almost identically to the way it sounds here, except slightly faster and with more improvisations.
This is a genius, I am Italian and I love this sound melody, which accompanied the comedians of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and other characters that were broadcast on TV in Italy ..... Thanks Scott
Watched the movie "The Sting" with Paul Neuman and Robert Redford when I was 12, I loved it but did not understand it, just watched it last night, wow what a great movie, I highly recommend it, its what brought "The Entertainer" to the general public attention.
Scott Joplin's music is timeless. This stuff is absolutely popping. What a genuine lad. I was taught that he was uneducated an poor, but he is an absolute master. Fantastic music!!!
As someone born in the early 21st century I must say, why did ragtime have to stop? The best music genre of all time in my opinion, and one that definitely deserves more appreciation. And Scott Joplin's especially, they are the greatest sounds to have ever graced my ears.
Thats what I bee askings. :[ LIKE MMM, Ragtime was such a amazing genre that didn't deserve to die out like it did. Yet at the same time, I suppose it's seemingly short-secret history is one of the things that makes it so special. :>
Ragtime had a full 20 years to be an international craze. But music changes, and ragtime transitioned into jazz, so that worked out pretty well. But continue being a fan and keeping the music alive!
This reminds me of my teenage days back in the 1910s when I was just chillin on my porch, listening to ragtime jazz on a cloudy Sunday afternoon. It's great to rehear this beautiful genre again this 2020. Brings me back to simpler times. :)))
@@user-cj6pe3vy3b oldest person from 1907 so technically its possible. Scott died 1917 so there are potentially people who’ve witnessed his existence still living which is quite amazing to think about, or better yet Teddy Roosevelt, Bass Reeves the gunman (pretty unlikely tbh lol) or even Babe Ruthe in his prime
Scott Joplin is America's best composer from the 1900s. He is to music what Van Gogh is to painting. Both chose their styles in which to work in. Joplin did ragtime and Van Gogh was an impressionist. Both died destitute. I'm always saying Joplin is one of my favorite songwriters. Most people say, "Janis?"
Two different genres, Janis was a blues singer. Scott Joplin did his own thing Rag time. they're both blues but Scott came up with a whole different style of music. Though he did not create Rag he was known as the King of Rag time. so lets just leave it at that and give Mr. Joplin his due. The King of Rag Time. Honestly on of Americas Best Black Performers. Yes we had some wonderful and talented Black Artists Louis Armstrong, is another of my Favorites. But sadly today's Black artists Suck. they really have no talent. Not like these Artists. Are you going to try to say that Kayne West is an Artists.. Not by any means. To me he's just a lucky loud mouth that got famous. Being Famous doesn't make you an artist or talented. It just makes you famous.
@@j.barryarlington4621 you've obviously never took the time to appreciate any of Kanye West's music. He may be really stupid sometimes, but he can make some really damn good music. We've always have great musicians in history, black or white. Scott Joplin and Kanye West are both extremely important figures to American culture and society.
I really like felicity rag, something doing, sunflower slow drag, paragon rag, fig leaf rag, original rags and a breeze from alabama. truly fun and well composed piano tunes!
I can't play the piano but my oldest sis can and when I was a boy she would play Joplin all the time. That was over 50 years ago and I love it to this day.
Utter happiness from listening to this music! But it also drove me to read more about Scott Joplin than I have ever done before, and my admiration for this composer has grown. He was a tenacious man living in enormously difficult circumstances, possessed with enormous self-belief in the value of his work. If not for his early death, perhaps he might have seen some of the wider recognition for his opera that he had tirelessly sought. It is a pleasure to hear his music over a century later.
THE STING! What a movie and what a music score! I knew Rag Time but t was that movie that reminded me of Scott Joplin and the music he brought back to my attention...
Why would someone be racist and admit to it? It's like wanking on a branch, crying and shouting "I'm scaaaaared of anything different!". And yet, the trees are full of sobing wankers...
this is pure classical in all its kind must have heard this wayy back on radio 4 in the uk and only recently heard online again just can beat it pure gold dust 👌
When I was in high school this is all I wanted to play. My piano teacher got me a book of his songs and I was in heaven! Still have it and anytime anyone asks me to sit down and play, first thing I play is The Entertainer or Maple Leaf Rag. One of the greats!
Гениальный музончик! Мотивирует, тонизирует, ну просто как допинг! Здорово делать под неё зарядку и скакать козлом по квартире! Прям по потолку бегать хочется! Какой замечательный человек был этот Скотт! Благодарное человечество его не забудет!
Most of what we call popular music today (2019) was invented by African-Americans. They repaid villainy with beauty, and we should all be grateful for over a century of GREAT music. Joplin would be so happy that millions of people of all races listen to him in coming centuries.
@busy boy Not a fair statement. Blacks didn't contribute much in terms of architecture, writing, philosophy or painting. The US wouldn't have been a cultural desert. But then again you miss the point entirely: it's not a competition or a fight. Scott Joplin was taught by a Jew who himself was trained in the European classical music. Likewise the black musicians who invented techno (the basis of modern pop / electronic music) were themselves inspired by Kraftwerk (German), Gershon Kingsley (Jewish again) and others like Jean Michele Jarre (French). And today influences from techno have made their way into everything from Rock to Film Music and even modern classical. Great minds don't work against each other, they inspire each other. We all have the choice of either trying to put other people down for their failures, or to learn and be inspired by their achievements. Put Mozart, Beethoven, Joplin, Kingsley and Uematsu in one room, and you know what they'd do? Jam and make music. What wouldn't they do? Argue about their race.
@busy boy Fair point, though Tango, Salsa, Rock and Blues didn't become part of American musical culture until the 20th century. Until then America wasn't entirely a musical wasteland, since there was European folk and classical music being played and written, Irish music, Spanish music etc. And of course classic "Americana" which later evolved into country. However, none of these styles ever had any success outside of the US. American music really found its footing when it incorporated African influences. Jazz, Swing and of course later Rock really established American music. So yes, Blacks handwriting is all over modern American music, and of course that influence began in the tribal music of Africa long before they even arrived in the US. My objection wasn't about Blacks having no influence on musical culture. They had a huge influence. I just object to the idea that America would be a cultural wasteland without blacks. It wouldn't be, just like Germany or Russia weren't cultural or musical wastelands by the early 20th century (quite the contrary). Music would have evolved very differently. Certainly less rhythmic and percussive. At the same time, African music benefited from European classical influences as well. African music didn't have notes originally for example.
@busy boy I had some classical music training when I was younger, so I have a bit of a fixation on it :D And my first post wasn't worded all that great in retrospect, but I'm glad you found it interesting! Totally with you on the black souls and the many unsung innovators of music. Their names may be lost to time, but their ideas live on to this day in the works that have built upon them since :)
@cushmoor That is nonsense. Both were white. The idea about Beethoven is based on the fact that his family is from Flanders, which was part of the spanish Netherlands, where a handful of spanish moors lived. None of Beethoven's extensively documented family tree was black though. Masks were made of his face during his life and after his death. You can see them here. www.goethezeitportal.de/wissen/musik/beethoven-auf-alten-postkarten.html If you think any of that looks even remotely African, you need some lessons in anthropology. He looks Germanic. Europeans with black hair aren't really rare, several Germanic people especially from the East had dark or black hair. Here's a german language article about this idiotic theory which was started by a South African writer claiming Beethoven was 1 /16th black. www.welt.de/kultur/buehne-konzert/plus191250683/Rassismus-Ludwig-van-Beethoven-soll-ein-Schwarzer-gewesen-sein.html As for Mozart, he looked like this de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Edlinger_Mozart.png This was painted in the year of his death and is supposedly the most realistic painting of him (since it's not glamorized in any way). Mozart was described as blonde throughout his life.
@@espinillasypuntosnegros1715 Why is it always about race with you people? Most of the United State doesn't give a crap about that kind of stuff other than virtue signaling leftists, thank God you are the minority.
Great ! Indeed great music! I love Scott Joplin' s compositions! I think he'd be surprised to know that after 100 years people search on net after his music! 😊 His music was played in very famous places on those times ,like the famous ship, the Titanic!
I think Joplin would be astonished, but incredibly proud of the respect given to his music today, as that respect could not be guaranteed in his day. I have a copy of his tutorial on playing rags, and he complained about people calling his style a "rag" and insisted that it would be taken seriously as a genre of music whether people liked it or not.
I think I'm going to break the chair I'm sitting on: I'm dancing wildly and smiling endlessly, I've just realised about it. Pure happiness! Thanks God for Joplin. And thank you for posting it! "like it", of course!
Thank you for paying respects guys.
?????
Thats not you men
But the best
Thank you, Scott!
Here we are bro
I listen the ragtime first time in the movie of the murdoch mysteries
Sjoplin salutation from mauritius
It’s been 100 years when the homie gonna drop a new album
@@andrewparedes660 brooooo 🤡🤡🤡🤡
Lol
He ain't Tupac
From his grave, yes
when he is back from hell, yes
Scott Joplin's music is timeless. He gave America a wonderful gift with his terrific music.
@107電機甲35潘思齊 I think he means to their culture, this music is ragtime if u didn't know
@PC...You might say the same about Judy Garland's big screen, small screen and stage performances. In fact, I suspect Garland and Joplin would've been good friends -- as artists!
@107電機甲35潘思齊Scott'sThe Strenuous Life is good enough
A legend of New Orleans louisiana!
Lol he died of an std
Thank God these pieces are played At The CORRECT Speed so we can hear Notes.
I'm sure Scott never imagined the world would be listening to his works across the world over computers on the world wide web long after he's gone.
No way he could have imagined! I'm one of the old boomers and I never could have imagined cell phones with computer displays and less than the size of a deck of cards. This music lives on with Mozart and Beethoven, Brubeck and Armstrong!
I'm sure if Joplin were alive today he'd be thrilled with the technology available for him to make even more music and with ease.
"When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me."
- Scott Joplin
@@patrickkn7607Some of us people will love you over 100 years later Mr. Joplin.
If he came back right now and we played one of his songs on a computer he would straight die again from sheer fright. It would literally like break his brain.
Best enjoyed while walking around really fast in black-and-white.
can relate
what do u mean by black and white?
@@GOLEM-yf4mx as in movies
😂😂
I'd more so say a brown scale classical movie base.
Does this music remind anybody else that that there are still the sweet, simple pleasures of life even when the world is bonkers?
Right you are!
You know, I could easily give ANYTHING for a simpler time than now because you cannot be any more right than you are now
It sure does remind me of the sweet, simple pleasures of life... My ice cream truck used to play some of these tunes as a kid! ;)
Life is still poggers, even if the world is bonkers*
I feel the same way about Chopin's mazurkas.
FACT: You cannot be sad when listening to Scott Joplin!
I know this is a joke, but there are definitely some sad Joplin pieces, such as “Solace” or “Bethena.”
@@user-cj6pe3vy3b Two of my favourites of his. Heliotrope Boquet is another one with bittersweet parts, though those were likely written by Louis Chauvin (and are quite distinct from the other parts, which sound a lot more like classic Joplin).
@@alphamikeomega5728 Yes, definitely!
Brilliant such tallent
indeed
He was one of the greatest American musical composers of all time. His music is loved by all Americans of every ethnicity and even non-Americans who love American culture. Rest in peace Mr Scott Joplin.
Indeed...I am 72, and, like most people, have my problems now and again...but putting this music on makes me dance and sing. I probably look a proper idiot, but I don't care : It makes me feel young and happy again.
@@holymoley1920 I am wiggling in my chair and looking like an idiot now, but I don't care.
Let’s not forget James Scott and Joseph Lamb
Can you imagine walking down some cobbled street back then, having heard nothing but classical music your entire life, and then hearing this glorious racket drifting out from some open window?
I was walking home from the theater one night with my brother and sister and I heard a radio playing opera so clearly- only after a moment, i recognised the voice. My aunt was singing! It was so facinating.
@Cazzie S what?
There was an episode of Murdoch Mysteries where ragtime came to Toronto for the first time, and while some people liked it, others considered it a bunch of noise since the ragged syncopations didn't agree with them, and still others considered it unholy music that should be banned. Probably not the most accurate view, but it was a fun episode to watch.
@@millenniumf1138 oh interesting thanks
@Cazzie S soulful? There is plenty of classical music which is way more soulfoul than this. This kind of music is not considered classical music because it isn't really as complex as classical music, in terms of harmony and counterpoint, also, by the time this was composed classical was starting dodecafony, impressionism, etc, which are even more complex than the music written before and this didn't really represent any kind of vanguard. Nevertheless, I like this music
His music is the equivalent of Kevin MacLeod's.
We've heard almost every single one of their songs before but never knew the name.
Exactly. Listening to this was like "Hey! I know that one!" "Hold on, I know this one too!" "This one as well..."
It was only thanks to Kevin's cover I found the name for The Entertainer and got here, been looking for Scott for years bt nobody I talked to ever knew who wrote all these masterpieces, or what any of them are actually called.
Kevin and Scott are true heroes.
People don’t even know what a ragtime even is but I bet you they can hum the melody at least
@@jrjr648 You have no idea how much i agree. All i hear about ragtime these days is Saloon comparisons and "Dont shoot the pianist", but the musicality and structure gets binned. sorry for the rant im just passionate today since i just saw treemonisha 😏
Does anyone ever unironically listen to Kevin MacLeod? I just associate his music with cancerous youtube videos. Scott Joplin's music is actually pretty good.
Maaan this takes me back to my teenage days of 1890s, chilling with the fellows
a hot dog only cost a nickel back then, sure was swell
@@garbagi0Dont eat them dogs, chap. The FDA ain't going to be created till 1906 😅. Unsanitary to the worst degree, those meat factories.
@@Sethoffgrid you rapscallion!
« in the fall of 1900, the “Maple Leaf Rag” caught on with the general public, and became the first piece of sheet music to sell more than one million copies-a figure all the more stunning when one realizes that there were fewer than 100,000 professional musicians and music teachers in the United States at the time. » -- Ted Gioia, The History of Jazz
William Fishman that’s around the time Joplin Created the magnetic rag, the last piece he made before syphilis forced him Into an asylum. Might be wrong.
"became the first piece of sheet music to sell more than one million copies" CORRECTION: Maple Leaf Rag was the first piece of INSTRUMENTAL sheet music to sell more than one million copies. "Old Folks at Home" by Stephen Foster (Way Down Upon the Swanee River), published in 1851, sold more than 20 million copies of sheet music, but that one had vocals.
Thanks for the fact
Forever live SJ ❤️💯🙏🏼⭐😃
Yes fewer than 100k professional musicians which just means people whose job they get paid for is playing music. Put back in those days people had pianos in their home and someone in the family or whoever at a party or something would play. This was before recorded music to listen at home tech really existed and so that’s how people listened to music in their homes.
Whenever my lecture/professor is boring, I put this as my background music and suddenly everything is entertaining.
what a rebel
Hence the name "the entertainer"
This is a very well recorded album...can hear the notes travel up and down the keyboard. Scott Joplin wasn't just a gift to America, he was a gift to the World.
ABSOLUTELY
B1tch he was our gift. He don’t claim you
I love the movement, the flow. The progression and exploration of a musical theme.
This album sounds like it was recorded in a tin can with a cheap piano. Additionally, the pieces are performed mechanically, and sometimes too fast as well.
@@mikeymutual5489concur. Poorly recorded, mediocre performance. Compare: Joshua Rifkin versions.
Its June 2024. No matter how many times I listen to this, I never get tired of it. I just love old music . Love Scott joplin music .. ❤.. ...from Texas
Me, too, in MT.
To me , rag kinda sounds like the bridge between classical and jazz music. Oh yes, and Scott was crazy talented.
If you come from that standpoint you might want to look up Gunther Schuller. He thought much like Joplin.
It really was more of a bridge from blues to jazz
Kind of reminds me of some of Chopins late waltzes in some way. But in a rythmic and 4/4 time signature of course.
Well, I feel like Scott was a big part of American classical music. In my opinion, he really bridged the gap between European classical and American classical.
@@liamthelitlord5738 Hey this isn’t classical music, this is ragtime.
Scott Joplin was definitely a musical genius. 🎶 🌟
70 years before
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My mother used to play music like this when I was a kid. I still have her old upright. Thank you for posting this. I miss her terribly.
My HS boyfriend played these tunes!
It’s incredible that this one man managed to create so many instantly recognisable and famous pieces. He’s probably made more famous songs than most musicians ever will
There were hundreds of people writing rag tunes inspired by Joplin, thousands of tunes that have been lost to history. But Joplin’s works were published and I suppose that’s how they survived.
Me when Kevin McLeod
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Give thanks to the Lord who gave that kind of talent to scott joplin.
Scott Joplin = one of the greatest music artists of all time ✓
Naa, that title belongs to the grumpy guy with messy hair and BAD hearing
Indeed and one of my favorite aswell
@@ludwigvanbeethoven61 he said one of the greatest, not the greatest
Mr. Joplin is one of my top 5 favourite composers!
@@ludwigvanbeethoven61 wait till he hears about this
*fight starts* .. the pianist: here we go again"
Yea at 12:52 it’s like “round 2” FIGHT
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i remember back in 6th grade being asked to write an essay about who from the past i would want to meet and why..i wrote immediately about scott joplin
With your permission and consent, I'd like to read your piece of writing
What did you write?
@@HasufelyArod I really wish I had a copy of it! It was an impromptu question as part of a standardized test (that every 6th grader took in my state).
This music affirms the joy of simply being alive no matter what. I wish Mr. Joplin could have known many people have enjoyed it.
You can’t be in a bad mood and listen to this...it brightens you up instantly lol
Yeah yeah I agree with you
I really needed to hear this today 😊
When last did you play it?
Especially Fig Leaf Rag
It really does
Those dsl's are making me happy
😘👄🌋
This man was and still is one of the greatest musical artists on this planet
He's a darn legend !
Yet for about seven decades his works were mostly forgotten except to accompany silent comedy movies.
@@deewesthill1213 yeah, that happens all the time. When a musician is forgotten, he's only seen as serious when you need his works for something.
WHAT A GENIUS HE WAS!
HIS MUSIC IS TIMELESS, AS ENJOYABLE TODAY AS IT MUST SURELY HAVE BEEN THEN!
Scott Joplin he is my favorite composer and pianist. Genius. Music is timeless. I love this music...
For me, ragtime tunes have an amazing medicinal effect when i'm feeling stressed. It's a soothing mental and emotional vacation with blue skies, warm sun, fresh sea breezes, and fragrant blossoms.
00:00 - maple leaf rag
03:03 - elite syncopations
06:31- the easy winners
10:05 - felicity rag
12:51- the entertainer
16:20 - the strenuous life
19:43 - combination march
23:09 - ragtime dance
26:54 - cascades
30:13 - peacherine rag
33:31 - something doing
36:37 - country club
40:13 - scott joplin new rag
43:53 - sunflower slow rag
47:10 - paragon rag
50:57 - heliotrope bouquet
54:25 - swipesy
57:56 - search light
01:02:26 - rose leaf rag
01:06:04 - fig leaf rag
01:09:33 - original rags
01:13:24 - pine apple rag
01:16:50 - gladiolous rag
01:21:16 - the ragtime dance
01:25:01 - sugar cane
01:28:20 - palm leaf rag
01:31:31 - a breeze from Alabama
bethena, magnetic rag and mexican serenade(solace) missing.
Where is Eugenia?
a century of black music thanks
thanks!!!
Thank you very much, bless you!!!
Crash at crush ain't here!
Having heard nothing but classical music your entire life.The notes are nice crisp and clear.Scott Joplin music is timeless. An excellent performance.
Scott Joplin published a tutorial with very precise instructions on how he wanted his rags to be played. One of his demands was precision. Also, Scott Joplin was taught classical music.
I like how the piano is professionally "DETUNED" giving it that honkytonk" RING" I use to play a lot of his music on piano!!!.( entertainer, maple leaf rag, got the most requests)
Joplin deserves way more praise. Never fails to make me happy!
I think the main reason he isnt praised as much as the ones that came before him is because he only wrote like, 80 works. Even though he deeply influenced American Music and broke racial barriers, people like Bach literally wrote HUNDREDS of masterpieces. Not only that but he goes to the "top 100 greatest musicians of all time" category, and they only teach about the top 5 usually
@@thesucka397 it's really sad he died at the age of 48
What a talented artist. He died too young.
He should have wore a rubber.
@@markbeaudry6916 hE SHOULD HAVE MARRIED A VIRGIN AND STUCK WITH HER LIKE MOST aMERICANS DO
@@markbeaudry6916 Latex was not invented until after his death. Rubber were not the same... ;P
Wait how did he die
@@melaninmix064 Complications due to Syphilis.
One of the best musicians who ever lived! The Entertainer is an amazing piece of music especially when Mr. Joplin plays it. Too bad he did not get the recognition he deserved when he was alive due to prejudice. May your soul rest in peace, Mr Joplin.
Patsy Ryan....and he died very poor, financially speaking.
😷🙏🌞
He was famous and he wasn't a good pianist
@@justina9914 how was he not?
@@洪諒 he simply wasn't a good pianist
@@洪諒 he only wrote mainly
I can listen to Joplin music for hours and never get bored.
Same!
He was a talented brother way ahead of his time rip brother ✊🏾
I am such a big fan of this genius , so many people have asked me' magic fingers maxwell ' if they could play along side me on RUclips sadly the people who I would love to do this with are so far above me that I can only dream of doing it, and in this case only his music lives on and if there is any justice it will live on for ever .
I sit at your feet
For some reason, Joplin sounds best on a tinny piano. Love it!
scott joplin's chord progressions continue to influence music even now.
how :DDDD
Certainly the song structure. He basically invented the pop song.
he also used "SYNCOPATION" in his music, that is still used today.
@@mattdad8429 That is an idiotic statement. Popular music had been written for centuries around the world. Even in America, and Stephen Foster and John Phillip Sousa had been writing popular songs decades earlier. SMH
@@gregoryclemen1870 While he didn't invent syncopation, his use of it influenced jazz and other forms of black American music since his time.
The music world wouldn't be the same without Scott Joplin!
I can't help but smile every time i play joplin's music, he's also the reason I took up piano
It's a privilege to hear his music by his own hands.
Joplin deserves A LOT LOT more credit for his contribution to classical popular music than what he is given. He indeed was a very accomplished pianist and composer!.
I could listen to this ragtime all day. It's not intrusive, angry, melancholy or bombastic. Reminds me of a summer afternoon picnic. They danced something called a 'cake walk' to this in its day. A risque dance at the time. It's as American as apple pie. Love it!
Love it so much from Japan !
Hello from the U.S. currently living in Japan. Gotemba!
@@menomisespeanut same woah
So does Nintendo 😂
いいね
Amazing that 125 years later you hear a rift and just know it is Scott Joplin Ragtime!! Love it
his music that used a lot of "SYNCOPATION", was a driving force in "ROCK-ROLL" music.
@@gregoryclemen1870 True. And it seems to me that rock and roll was somewhat a dumbing down of the complexity and nuance of Rag. And I grew up in the rock and roll age.
@@LifeIsThePrayer , it is a cross between COUNTRY and R&B music, in 1955 it was known as ROCK-A-BILLY music. correct me if I am wrong, I think" rock-&-roll" music was coined by the disk jocky ALLEN FRIED.
I want to live in a place where Scott Joplin meets Mozart to share musical ideas. Maybe in the next world
What a wonderful iteration that would be. I'd love to here what a pianist/composer could come up with following this theme.
You mean next life
Mozart wasn’t the nicest person. And he wasn’t open to new things very much.
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure 4?
Actually, you'd get far better results with Joplin and Beethoven. Beethoven was a known improviser. I think he would have loved and appreciated jazz.
YOU CAN NOT SIT STILL AND YOU CAN NOT SMILE WHEN YOU HEAR JOPLIN RAGTIME !!!!💪💪💪💪💪💪❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
The version of Maple Leaf Rag in this video is one of the best I've ever heard
There is a lot to be said for slowing down the tempo for many songs. Too many artists play songs too fast in an effort to show off. "Look at me, I'm so talented I can play this song faster than anyone else!"
Vaxhnar even though it’s swung which isn’t how he wrote it because swing want even a thing but yes it was good
Vaxhnar probably played on an old 1900s-1910s piano or even an old player piano
Thank you! Most versions or interpretations of this tune is played so fast; seems that they want to get it over with.
@@grantcolman7087 Funny, because there's a recording of him playing it, and he actually plays it almost identically to the way it sounds here, except slightly faster and with more improvisations.
Almost no one know how wounderful and happy are the Joplin musics, i love it more than classic music, i wish die listening to this (if i die).
This is a genius, I am Italian and I love this sound melody, which accompanied the comedians of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and other characters that were broadcast on TV in Italy ..... Thanks Scott
his music is a gas. it puts a movie in my head
Watched the movie "The Sting" with Paul Neuman and Robert Redford when I was 12, I loved it but did not understand it, just watched it last night, wow what a great movie, I highly recommend it, its what brought "The Entertainer" to the general public attention.
I'm looking for a movie to watch tonight I will look it up! Thank you!
And The Entetainer is a hard one to play!
God bless the gifted composers
This is 130 year old rock and roll and it still rocks
not rock, it's Rag
@@HUTINAK oh, don't worry, I think it's a joke
@@HUTINAK ragrock
It was pretty edgy for a lot of people. The kind of music “civilized folk” wouldn’t be caught dead listening to.
Yea
Scott Joplin's music is timeless. This stuff is absolutely popping. What a genuine lad. I was taught that he was uneducated an poor, but he is an absolute master. Fantastic music!!!
He was born poor, but he wasn't uneducated.
For some reason I never get tired of listening. Day and night.
HAPPY PEOPLE IN THAT TIME ENJOYING THIS NICE MUSIC !!
As someone born in the early 21st century I must say, why did ragtime have to stop? The best music genre of all time in my opinion, and one that definitely deserves more appreciation. And Scott Joplin's especially, they are the greatest sounds to have ever graced my ears.
Thats what I bee askings. :[
LIKE MMM, Ragtime was such a amazing genre that didn't deserve to die out like it did. Yet at the same time, I suppose it's seemingly short-secret history is one of the things that makes it so special. :>
Ragtime had a full 20 years to be an international craze. But music changes, and ragtime transitioned into jazz, so that worked out pretty well. But continue being a fan and keeping the music alive!
Trueeee I was wishing we could have new ragtime pieces.
New ragtime is still being written. My late husband's rags are being produced right now! Ain't the way it makes you feel just grand!@@mistymoonrose
Scott Joplin is One OF A Kind !
Love his Music
This reminds me of my teenage days back in the 1910s when I was just chillin on my porch, listening to ragtime jazz on a cloudy Sunday afternoon. It's great to rehear this beautiful genre again this 2020. Brings me back to simpler times. :)))
Is this a joke or for real? If this isn’t a joke that’s amazing! Simpler times... 😄
Back in my teenage days in the 1860s we had no ragtime.
Well back in my day, all we had were the cannons on our ship for music
@@user-cj6pe3vy3b oldest person from 1907 so technically its possible. Scott died 1917 so there are potentially people who’ve witnessed his existence still living which is quite amazing to think about, or better yet Teddy Roosevelt, Bass Reeves the gunman (pretty unlikely tbh lol) or even Babe Ruthe in his prime
You was a teen then and now you commenting on RUclips???😳
Im happy hes getting recognition he deserves ❤
He's my favorite ragtime artist!
MIne, too!
Scott Joplin is America's best composer from the 1900s. He is to music what Van Gogh is to painting. Both chose their styles in which to work in. Joplin did ragtime and Van Gogh was an impressionist. Both died destitute. I'm always saying Joplin is one of my favorite songwriters. Most people say, "Janis?"
Two different genres, Janis was a blues singer. Scott Joplin did his own thing Rag time. they're both blues but Scott came up with a whole different style of music. Though he did not create Rag he was known as the King of Rag time. so lets just leave it at that and give Mr. Joplin his due. The King of Rag Time. Honestly on of Americas Best Black Performers. Yes we had
some wonderful and talented Black Artists Louis Armstrong, is another of my Favorites. But sadly today's Black artists Suck. they really have no talent. Not like these Artists. Are you going to try to say that Kayne West is an Artists.. Not by any means. To me he's just a lucky loud mouth that got famous. Being Famous doesn't make you an artist or talented. It just makes you
famous.
@@j.barryarlington4621 you've obviously never took the time to appreciate any of Kanye West's music. He may be really stupid sometimes, but he can make some really damn good music. We've always have great musicians in history, black or white. Scott Joplin and Kanye West are both extremely important figures to American culture and society.
Van Gogh was an impressionist just for a short time, his choice was to move away from impressionism. Mostly it's called a postimpressionism.
Urgh, gets right up your nose doesn't it.Bloody Janis.
It's not a well-published fact, but Janis was Scott's great-grand-daughter.
Thanks, best wishes from Lithuania!!!💛💚💖👌🎹
bluds already dead the hell u on abt?!
La música es tan enterna e increíblemente hermosa, este es un àlbum hermoso, verdaderamente original y brillante...
I really like felicity rag, something doing, sunflower slow drag, paragon rag, fig leaf rag, original rags and a breeze from alabama. truly fun and well composed piano tunes!
Simple. Simple and sweet. Complete.
I can't play the piano but my oldest sis can and when I was a boy she would play Joplin all the time. That was over 50 years ago and I love it to this day.
Scott Joplin always brings a smile to my face .
Joyful, carefree, a playful racket. Lifts the heart. Wonderful.
No matter how far into the huture we go S.Joplin's pieces will never die. S. Joplin's music is timeless ....from Fort Worth, Texas
Clear, clean, concise.
Magnificent.
Génial.Ca donne la pêche.Merci beaucoup.🤩😇😃🙏
Utter happiness from listening to this music! But it also drove me to read more about Scott Joplin than I have ever done before, and my admiration for this composer has grown. He was a tenacious man living in enormously difficult circumstances, possessed with enormous self-belief in the value of his work. If not for his early death, perhaps he might have seen some of the wider recognition for his opera that he had tirelessly sought. It is a pleasure to hear his music over a century later.
Gotta say, I've heard a lot of versions, but this one really jumps out. Crisp & lively!
He Was a Genius, No Other Word for It
THE STING! What a movie and what a music score! I knew Rag Time but t was that movie that reminded me of Scott Joplin and the music he brought back to my attention...
I have been listening to this beautiful piano ragtime and I instantly have a smile on my face and the world is great again !!!
Hello Stephanie, How are you doing?
Doing so well still loving my Scott Joplin ragtime!
Why would someone search for this and then give it a thumbs down?
probably the people that vandalized his historic site
Why would someone be racist and admit to it?
It's like wanking on a branch, crying and shouting "I'm scaaaaared of anything different!".
And yet, the trees are full of sobing wankers...
The world's best ragtime (or jazz) piano composer. No other qualifiers need be mentioned.
this is pure classical in all its kind must have heard this wayy back on radio 4 in the uk and only recently heard online again just can beat it pure gold dust 👌
can't help but wonder what happened to those poor 278 souls that gave this a thumbs DOWN! What class music this is! TYVM for posting it
When I was in high school this is all I wanted to play. My piano teacher got me a book of his songs and I was in heaven! Still have it and anytime anyone asks me to sit down and play, first thing I play is The Entertainer or Maple Leaf Rag. One of the greats!
Thankful to see people coming here in large amounts since I last visited.
@Barlos Must have been a damn good time
Never get tired of listening to him
He's timeless.
Me niether😊
0:40 The best beat drop of the 19th century.
hitler disagrees
Love the slow drag
To make someone happy is a wonderful gift. Thank you, mr. Joplin for this gift.
Scott Joplin was a perfect example of a man ahead of his time. Always be timeless classics
I "SECOND" that notion!!!!
Гениальный музончик! Мотивирует, тонизирует, ну просто как допинг! Здорово делать под неё зарядку и скакать козлом по квартире! Прям по потолку бегать хочется! Какой замечательный человек был этот Скотт! Благодарное человечество его не забудет!
Good dance music thanks
Scott Joplin will always be in the same class with the worlds other great composers , One of the best .
LOVE RAGTIME!!!
Most of what we call popular music today (2019) was invented by African-Americans. They repaid villainy with beauty, and we should all be grateful for over a century of GREAT music. Joplin would be so happy that millions of people of all races listen to him in coming centuries.
@busy boy Not a fair statement. Blacks didn't contribute much in terms of architecture, writing, philosophy or painting. The US wouldn't have been a cultural desert. But then again you miss the point entirely: it's not a competition or a fight.
Scott Joplin was taught by a Jew who himself was trained in the European classical music. Likewise the black musicians who invented techno (the basis of modern pop / electronic music) were themselves inspired by Kraftwerk (German), Gershon Kingsley (Jewish again) and others like Jean Michele Jarre (French). And today influences from techno have made their way into everything from Rock to Film Music and even modern classical.
Great minds don't work against each other, they inspire each other. We all have the choice of either trying to put other people down for their failures, or to learn and be inspired by their achievements.
Put Mozart, Beethoven, Joplin, Kingsley and Uematsu in one room, and you know what they'd do? Jam and make music. What wouldn't they do? Argue about their race.
@busy boy Fair point, though Tango, Salsa, Rock and Blues didn't become part of American musical culture until the 20th century. Until then America wasn't entirely a musical wasteland, since there was European folk and classical music being played and written, Irish music, Spanish music etc. And of course classic "Americana" which later evolved into country.
However, none of these styles ever had any success outside of the US. American music really found its footing when it incorporated African influences. Jazz, Swing and of course later Rock really established American music.
So yes, Blacks handwriting is all over modern American music, and of course that influence began in the tribal music of Africa long before they even arrived in the US.
My objection wasn't about Blacks having no influence on musical culture. They had a huge influence.
I just object to the idea that America would be a cultural wasteland without blacks. It wouldn't be, just like Germany or Russia weren't cultural or musical wastelands by the early 20th century (quite the contrary).
Music would have evolved very differently. Certainly less rhythmic and percussive.
At the same time, African music benefited from European classical influences as well. African music didn't have notes originally for example.
@busy boy I had some classical music training when I was younger, so I have a bit of a fixation on it :D And my first post wasn't worded all that great in retrospect, but I'm glad you found it interesting!
Totally with you on the black souls and the many unsung innovators of music. Their names may be lost to time, but their ideas live on to this day in the works that have built upon them since :)
@cushmoor That is nonsense. Both were white. The idea about Beethoven is based on the fact that his family is from Flanders, which was part of the spanish Netherlands, where a handful of spanish moors lived. None of Beethoven's extensively documented family tree was black though.
Masks were made of his face during his life and after his death.
You can see them here.
www.goethezeitportal.de/wissen/musik/beethoven-auf-alten-postkarten.html
If you think any of that looks even remotely African, you need some lessons in anthropology. He looks Germanic.
Europeans with black hair aren't really rare, several Germanic people especially from the East had dark or black hair.
Here's a german language article about this idiotic theory which was started by a South African writer claiming Beethoven was 1 /16th black.
www.welt.de/kultur/buehne-konzert/plus191250683/Rassismus-Ludwig-van-Beethoven-soll-ein-Schwarzer-gewesen-sein.html
As for Mozart, he looked like this de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Edlinger_Mozart.png
This was painted in the year of his death and is supposedly the most realistic painting of him (since it's not glamorized in any way). Mozart was described as blonde throughout his life.
@@espinillasypuntosnegros1715 Why is it always about race with you people? Most of the United State doesn't give a crap about that kind of stuff other than virtue signaling leftists, thank God you are the minority.
One of the older ladies at my church recently gave me a book of Joplin’s Rag Time compositions. So much fun to play through.
Great ! Indeed great music! I love Scott Joplin' s compositions! I think he'd be surprised to know that after 100 years people search on net after his music! 😊 His music was played in very famous places on those times ,like the famous ship, the Titanic!
I think Joplin would be astonished, but incredibly proud of the respect given to his music today, as that respect could not be guaranteed in his day. I have a copy of his tutorial on playing rags, and he complained about people calling his style a "rag" and insisted that it would be taken seriously as a genre of music whether people liked it or not.
Grazie grazie grazie Scott!!!
I think I'm going to break the chair I'm sitting on: I'm dancing wildly and smiling endlessly, I've just realised about it. Pure happiness!
Thanks God for Joplin. And thank you for posting it! "like it", of course!
I call listening to this music "the poor person's Disneyland", it's a magical ear-heaven.
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