Maple Leaf Rag
Famous ragtime piece
Maple Leaf Rag is a piano composition by Scott Joplin, published in 1899 and considered the defining work of ragtime music.
Its syncopated rhythms and infectious melody made it the first piece of sheet music to sell over a million copies.
The title refers to a social club in Sedalia, Missouri, where Joplin performed.
- ragtimeSyncopated piano genre
- pianoKeyed percussion instrument
- piano rollPerforated music cylinder
- syncopationStressed unexpected beats
- strideExtended single footstep
Scott Joplin · jazz · keys · honky-tonk · sheet music · treble · bass · saloon · vaudeville · 1899 · turn of the century · bouncy · jaunty · toe tapping · player piano · cakewalk · entertainer · ivories
- RagtimeScott Joplin, The Entertainer, syncopation, rags, Jelly Roll Morton
- Piano Rollspiano rolls
Maple Leaf RagMoonlight Sonata
Celebrated nocturnal piano work
funeral march · Gregorian chant · dirge · requiem · waltz
Maple Leaf Ragfuneral march
Music accompanying a coffin
Moonlight Sonata · lament · elegy · threnody
Maple Leaf Ragwaltz
Dance in three-quarter time
Minute Waltz · Viennese waltz · lullaby · nocturne · adagio
maple, leaf, maples, leaves, leafy, leaflet, leaflets, ragged, raggedly