Scott Joplin / Katherine Preston ; senior consulting editor, Nathan Irvin Huggins.
Traces the life of the well-known ragtime pianist and composer who wrote over 500 pieces of music, including a ballet and two operas. Until Scott Joplin, ragtime music was regarded as low class and unrefined. His compositions--such as "Maple Leaf Rag"--helped ragtime earn national prominence in the early 1900s, but it was not until the 1970s, that Joplin was award posthumously the Pulitzer Prize for his opera Treemonisha.
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- ISBN: 1555465986
- ISBN: 9781555465988
- ISBN: 0791002055
- ISBN: 9780791002056
- Physical Description: 110 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Chelsea House Publishers, c1988.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 108) and index. |
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Traces the life of the well-known ragtime pianist and composer who wrote over 500 pieces of music, including a ballet and two operas. Until Scott Joplin, ragtime music was regarded as low class and unrefined. His compositions--such as "Maple Leaf Rag"--helped ragtime earn national prominence in the early 1900s, but it was not until the 1970s, that Joplin was award posthumously the Pulitzer Prize for his opera Treemonisha.