I’ve been meaning to record this tune for a while now…the recording isn’t PERFECT (especially the last bit), but I consider it to be a pretty decent runthrough overall. Considering how many repeats there are in the song, it’s as good as its going to get.
Comments are appreciated!
Keyboard: Korg TR Music Workstation
Duration : 0:4:3
Recorded Sunday, November 18, 2007 at Pearson Piano in Crete, IL by Sue Keller playing a Steingraeber 205 Conservatory Grand.
sheet music: http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/lilly/devincent/printable/LL-SDV-042067-01
Sue had the honor of being the very first pianist in the Chicago area to evaluate this limited production German piano in concert. The piece is Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin, The King of Ragtime. Here is a Scott Joplin’s own recording from his April 1916 piano roll:
http://music.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/9905_ragtime/rafiles/9905_mapleleafrag_28.ram
Duration : 0:4:1
‘TREEMONISHA – SCOTT JOPLIN’ from Tony Palmer’s classic series ‘ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE’ available from www.allyouneedislovedvd.com
In the early part of the 21st century the music industry earns literally billions of dollars; its influences stretch beyond merely musical art forms and are now an integral part of many different media including Film, Television and now the new Digital and Internet industry.
In the mid-70s, at the suggestion of John Lennon, the celebrated journalist and film director Tony Palmer decided to document the “Story of Popular Music” and set about interviewing and filming all the major players in the industry at that time, past and present. Even in the mid-70s this was seen as a monumental task, but despite the scale of the undertaking, Tony Palmer made a series of films that set the standard to which all subsequent biographers and documentary makers aspired to.
The critically acclaimed All You Need Is Love was broadcast across the world between 1976 and 1981. But since that time, it has neither been repeated nor commercially released on either video or DVD.
Now available for the first time, All you Need Is Love makes its DVD debut as a lavish boxed set which contains all 17 episodes of the series on 5 discs. Contained within those discs IS the ‘Story of Popular Music’, encompassing Ragtime, Blues, Jazz, Vaudeville, The Musical, Folk, Swing, Country and Western, Rock ‘n’ Roll and beyond, and includes interviews with some of the major names of the past 50+ years including John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimi Hendrix, Stephen Sondheim, Benny Goodman, Bing Crosby, Mike Oldfield, The Beach Boys, Tina Turner, Sam Phillips, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie, Richard Rodgers, Roy Rogers, Benny Goodman, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Phil Spector, Bill Monroe, Bill Graham, Bill Wyman, Frank Zappa, Eric Clapton and many many more. It has frequently been described as the “definitive music documentary”, and is regarded just as highly today as ‘cult viewing’ as it was over 30 years ago when it was first broadcast.
Duration : 0:5:43
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Takamon plays Scott Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag on the piano. One take, uninterrupted shot.
When we were kids we called it the “Trolly Song”. Probably a reference to the jazzy ragtime-like music played when the Trolly on Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood would roll in and out of the neighborhood of Make Believe.
Thanks for the tunes Ta!
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An animation of balls playing Scott Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag on a piano, done in 3Dsmax. Except for the camera movement, the animation is done entirely with scripts. I had to guesstimate when the notes in the audio file occurred in time, so sometimes the movement of balls is not perfectly timed to the audio.
Duration : 0:2:28
One of the “big three” of ragtime, Joseph F. Lamb, describes how he first met Scott Joplin, and how it came to be that Joplin convinced publisher John Stark to sign Lamb as a composer.
Lamb was a self-taught composer, and unusual in ragtime in that he wasn’t part of any musical scene.
In modern terms, it’s like a fanboy who started creating his own works out of his home — not making a career of it — and he shows his work to his idol. The idol likes them so much, he arranges to have the work produced. The fanboy’s works become hugely popular and end up regarded as among the best in the genre.
Such an idea seems ludicrous in this day and age, but that’s how it happened for Joe Lamb, and the music world is so much better for it.
The recorded interview is an excerpt from Folkways record FW03562 — “Joseph Lamb: A Study in Classic Ragtime” — available on vinyl and from several music download sites. The album was recorded shortly before Lamb died, in 1960.
The recording of Lamb playing the “Sensation” rag here is not from the album, but from an earlier performance, when Lamb was better able to play. It’s a poor-quality tape recording, but a better, more indicative performance. Thanks go to Luigi Ranalli for sending me that recording (if I remember rightly).
Duration : 0:6:24
Treemonisha ragtime opera excerpts composed by Scott Joplin, arranged and produced by Sue Keller. The Overture, Very Fine Day, We’re Goin’ Around, and Frolic of the Bears.
Duration : 0:8:52
A rag published in 1899. The inspiration for learning this came from watching a You Tube clip of Dennis Pash, Meredith Axelrod, Bob Ault, and Craig Ventresco playing a string band rendition in concert:
I learned this from a piano score pdf download at mutopiaproject.org:
http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/make-table.cgi?collection=joplin&preview=1
Duration : 0:4:32
Maple leaf rag!!
Scott Joplin’s The Entertainer