Maple Leaf Rag
Maple Leaf Rag in A♭ major: the notation, engraved from a public domain source. Public domain.
- Key
- A♭ major
- Time
- 2/4
- Tempo
- ♩ = 84
- Author
- Scott Joplin † 1917
- Written
- 1899, named after the Maple Leaf Club in Sedalia
The notation
Engraving not yet checked by hand. Time signature, key, bar count and the length of every single bar have been checked against the source by machine. Whether every slur and beam is also set the way it is usually set has not yet been reviewed by a musician.
About the piece
The first rag to sell a hundred thousand copies as sheet music — and the reason ragtime became a movement at all. Joplin was paid one cent per copy sold.
Public domain — both the work and the engraving. The setting comes from the Mutopia-Projekt, which marks its editions as public domain explicitly.
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