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A High Class Rag

Composer:Joplin  (1868-1917)   Suppliers: Ditty Box Enterprises
Editor:Geoff Grainger  Sextet:Descant/Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
Publisher:Ditty Box Enterprises  Publication:DBE 055
Midi:Listen. Sequencer: Colin MacDonald Audio file information  

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Length: approx. 4 mins.
The sub-title, A High Class Rag, further demonstrates Joplin's obsession with "classiness" first mentioned in his School of Ragtime (1908). This recorder adaptation is extremely demanding on the descant player whereby a few top D's and even an E (bar 59) are on the menu. The top three voices also have their work cut-out in the heavily chorded concluding trio requiring very concise playing. A very enjoyable piece!
Whilst Joplin suggests a slow march tempo of an unseemly 100 crotchets/min., taking it easy at 72 crotchets/min. seems about right.
Fig Leaf Rag was published by the Stark Music Co, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, and a piano roll was produced.

This recorder adaptation is respectfully dedicated to my good friend, Steffen Ehlert, late of Flensburg, now in Schacht-Audorf, Germany.

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