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The Entertainer

The Entertainer in C major: the notation, engraved from a public domain source. Public domain.

Key
C major
Time
2/4
Tempo
♩ = 88
Author
Scott Joplin † 1917
Written
1902, »A Rag Time Two Step«

The notation

INTRO: Not fast 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 22 Repeat 8va 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 8 38 40 42 44 46 48 50 52 54 56 58 60 62 64 66 68 70 72 74 77 79 81 83 85 87 89 91

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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

Joplin wrote the rag in 1902; it became famous only in 1973, when the film »The Sting« used it. Joplin himself wrote of his rags: »It is never right to play ragtime fast.«

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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