Complete Piano Rags (Dover Classical Piano Music)
Language: English
Published by Dover Publications, 1988
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Zoom Books East, Glendale Heights, IL, U.S.A.Zoom Books East
AbeBooks seller since July 1, 2024
Condition: Used - Good
£ 7.14
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
Seller Inventory # ZEV.0486258076.G
- Title
- Complete Piano Rags (Dover Classical Piano Music)
- Author
- Joplin, Scott
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0486258076
- ISBN 13
- 9780486258072
This comprehensive piano collection is perfect for advanced students, teachers, and music enthusiasts who want to explore the brilliance of classic ragtime. It can be used for performance study, technical development, or home practice, offering pianists an inspiring way to deepen their skills while playing historically significant works.
This edition brings together all thirty-eight of Scott Joplin’s original piano rags along with his six collaborations. It also includes his legendary instructional essay, the School of Ragtime, which provides valuable guidance on how to approach style, articulation, and feel. Each piece is reprinted from the original publisher’s edition and paired with its authentic sheet-music cover, creating a visually rich and historically accurate experience.
The collection supports artistic growth by helping players refine rhythm, elevate interpretive skills, and master Joplin’s distinctive syncopated writing. These rags offer both technical challenge and expressive depth, making the book a strong music teacher resource and an exciting repertoire source for solo performance. The carefully curated layout encourages consistent practice and motivates players to expand their ragtime understanding through recognizable classics.
Featuring iconic titles such as Maple Leaf Rag, The Entertainer, and many more, the book preserves Joplin’s creativity across a full spectrum of moods and character pieces. Whether used for recital work, skill refinement, or enrichment, it offers lasting musical value.
<
Includes all 38 original Scott Joplin piano rags, six collaborative rags, and the School of Ragtime * and more.
Bring music to life. This complete edition is ideal for study, performance, and musical exploration, offering pianists a rewarding journey through one of America’s most enduring musical styles. It also makes a thoughtful gift for any music lover or collector.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
From the Back Cover
This wonderful book brings together in one superbly produced playing edition all thirty-eight of Scott Joplin's piano rags, including his six collaborations, plus Joplin's own primer on how to play ragtime, the "School of Ragtime." Each rag has been reprinted, along with its sheet-music cover, from the original publisher's edition.
At the Williams' Brothers saloon in Sedalia, Missouri, Scott Joplin was known as "The Entertainer," and in 1897, in the upstairs room called the Maple Leaf Club, he wrote the rag that would one day be the first to sell over a million copies in sheet-music form. In time the "Maple Leaf Rag" also became the most recorded composition on piano roll, with forty known versions.
Most of Joplin's other rags were hits as well. Many bear the playful names that were given most rags, names like "The Strenuous Life," "Heliotrope Bouquet," and his last published piece, the "Silver Swan Rag." One of them, "The Entertainer," triggered a major revival of interest in his work when it was incorporated into the score of the popular film The Sting. All of them are here, each bearing the mark of Joplin's supreme originality. As ragtime authority David A. Jasen observes in his Introduction: "For pianists everywhere, this folio contains ragtime masterpieces which, when learned, will provide unlimited joy."
Original Dover (1988) publication, reprinted from sheet music for 38 piano rags originally issued by various music publishers. 39 illustrations. Introduction by David A. Jasen. "School of Ragtime" by Scott Joplin.
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Zoom Books East
Glendale Heights, IL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since July 1, 2024
Shipping rates within U.S.A.
| Item | 4 to 8 business days | 2 to 6 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 0.00 | £ 3.69 |
Payment methods
Store description
Specialty
Fiction/Non-Fiction, variesSeller's business information
Acirassi Books Ltd.
918 16th Ave NW, #25
Calgary, AB Canada T2M0K3
Right of withdrawal
If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.
Information regarding the right of withdrawal
Statutory right to withdraw
You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.
To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
Effects of withdrawal
If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).
We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.
We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.
We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.
We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.
You shall send back the goods or hand them over to Zoom Books East, Lynden, Washington, U.S.A., without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.
Exceptions to the right of withdrawal
The right of withdrawal does not apply to:
- The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
- The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.