SKU: A0.553671

The original piano rag, which was once advertised by Joplin's publisher as being as high-class as Chopin, was composed upon the occasion of the World's Fair in St. Louis in 1904. This World's Fair was known as the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and celebrated the centennial of the historic event that doubled the size of the United States and launched an age of exploration and Western expansion. The fair, which attracted an estimated 20 million people from around the world, encouraged visitors to look back to the nation's frontier days while looking ahead to progress in the fields of technology, science, and medicine. Exhibits from fifty foreign countries and almost all of the states ensured that fairgoers had a good time.

The cascades of Joplin's title were part of the most beautiful feature of the Exhibition, as a souvenir photo book from the fair phrased it. Fourteen waterfalls flowed into a basin in front of the fair's centerpiece, Festival Hall, with the Colonnade of States surrounding it. Festival Hall was the fair's main venue for music performances and housed the world's largest pipe organ at the time. Joplin probably visited the fair when it opened, and the Cascades rag could often be heard there.

2018 Chamber Music Contest Entry

arranged wind quintet

SKU: A0.748717

Scott Joplin's Original Rags is amazingly suitable for wind quintet (flute, oboe, Bb clarinet, F horn and bassoon). Originally for piano, the lively melody and bass parts have been shared by the five woodwind instruments in a way that brings out the animated character of the winds. I have taken liberties to add some interpretation when I arranged the original piano score for wind quintet in a way that further eccentuates the lively character of Original Rags.


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SKU: A0.892005

This is a fun woodwind quintet arrangement of Scott Joplin's Fig Leaf rag, from 1908. This piece is more complex and intricate than many rags. In this arrangement, the melody is woven throughout the various instrument parts so that each player is challenged. Approximate run time is 3:40.

Sheet music includes conductor's score plus individual parts for flute, oboe, Bb clarinet, French horn, and bassoon.

2018 Chamber Music Contest Entry

SKU: A0.553664

One of Joplin's less well known pieces.

It doesn't have the typical sing-song accompanment of many of his ragtime pieces.

It gives the basoonist and the horn player a more interesting line of music to play!!

Also some interesting key changes in the middle section

Try it and see