Scott Joplin

Typeset to match the sheet music in the public domain http://imslp.org/wiki/Original_Rags_%28Joplin,_Scott%29

Peter Gammond's suggests a tempo of ♪ = 176 in his book "Scott Joplin and the Ragtime Era".

Comments on this engraving;
The bar numbers for each first ending and second ending measures have not been given subscripts a
and b.
Bars 11 and 19 RH could match Bars 64 and 72 - the latter being easier to play with the E omitted
Bar 33 LH could match bar 31 with the accents
Bar 69 RH could have RH match LH for accents and to match bar 16
Bar 83 RH could have an accent on last note to match previous bar
Bar 65 RH first chord could have an accent to match bar 12
Bar 20 RH first chord could have an accent to match bar 73

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