Typeset to match the sheet music in the public domain
http://petrucci.mus.auth.gr/imglnks/usimg/0/02/IMSLP054
67-Joplin_-_Searchlight_Rag.pdf
Peter Gammond's suggests a tempo of ♪ = 144 in
his book "Scott Joplin and the Ragtime Era".
The slurs in the IMSLP version of this piece differ
slightly from those in the "Scott Joplin -- Complete
Piano Works: Rags, Waltzes, Marches" book. I have
chosen the book as the definitive copy and us...(+)
Taken from my Musescore account
Typeset to match the sheet music in the public domain
http://petrucci.mus.auth.gr/imglnks/usimg/0/02/IMSLP054
67-Joplin_-_Searchlight_Rag.pdf
Peter Gammond's suggests a tempo of ♪ = 144 in
his book "Scott Joplin and the Ragtime Era".
The slurs in the IMSLP version of this piece differ
slightly from those in the "Scott Joplin -- Complete
Piano Works: Rags, Waltzes, Marches" book. I have
chosen the book as the definitive copy and used the
slurs from there. I am not sure why there are two very
similar copies with slightly different slurs.
31st December 2014 - re-uploaded score without bar
numbers showing as in the original
2015-06-20 updated to Musescore 2.0 format
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