'The Entertainer' by Scott Joplin is a ragtime piece
originally for piano written in 1802. The piece is
sub-titled "A Rag Time Two Step" which was a popular
dance at that time, and was a style common to many
other rags.
The music is dedicated to "James Brown and his Mandolin
Club". The author Rudi Blesh wrote that "some of the
melodies recall the pluckings and the fast tremolos of
the little steel-stringed plectrum instruments..."
Joplin's masterpiece returned to international
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'The Entertainer' by Scott Joplin is a ragtime piece
originally for piano written in 1802. The piece is
sub-titled "A Rag Time Two Step" which was a popular
dance at that time, and was a style common to many
other rags.
The music is dedicated to "James Brown and his Mandolin
Club". The author Rudi Blesh wrote that "some of the
melodies recall the pluckings and the fast tremolos of
the little steel-stringed plectrum instruments..."
Joplin's masterpiece returned to international
prominence in the 1970s during a revival of ragtime
music, which included its use in a major Hollywood
Oscar-winning film 'The Sting' starring Paul Newman and
Robert Redford.
Lewis, Alastair (1974 - )
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