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Maple Leaf Rag
Solo piano · recorded 1899MIDI file
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Published in Sedalia, Missouri in 1899, the Maple Leaf Rag made ragtime a national craze and Scott Joplin its acknowledged king. Its four strains remain the form's great archetype, imitated for a century and never bettered.
This file follows Joplin's original composition at a steady, sensible tempo, closer to the composer's famous instruction that ragtime should never be played fast than to the racehorse versions that came later.
Free, with the hands on separate channels: the classic starting point for anyone learning rag.
- Artist
- Scott Joplin
- Genres
- Ragtime Piano, Free MIDI files
- Recorded
- 1899
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Duration
- 2:56
- Tempo
- 98 bpm
- Key
- Channels
- 2 · left and right hand
- Format
- .mid · Type 1
Scott Joplin
The King of Ragtime, whose Maple Leaf Rag and The Entertainer defined the syncopated style that swept America and laid the groundwork for jazz piano.