Talk:Maple Leaf Rag

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It would be great if somebody could add links here to other ragtime pieces (if that's what you call them.) I'm not knowledgeable enough to do this myself.  :)

In which video game was the piece used apart from the Bally Midway game? I'm racking my brains about it, but I can't for the life of me remember it. Can you help? -andy 80.129.92.18 00:09, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Not sure about Maple Leaf, but other Joplin music, including Heliotrope Bouqet, Easy Winners, and something else I can't remember was used in the Atari 8-bit game, Clowns and Balloons. ♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫ 02:23, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

I remember Maple Leaf being used in some basketball game for the Commodore 64. I can't remember what it's called though. A Pattern O (talk) 04:58, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Arresting Syncopations

In the section "Structure", it says that the syncopations were "arrestingly novel at the time", especially those coming "between the first and second strains". Is "strains" a technical term in ragtime music? I know the piece but don't know what part is referred to by this expression: that might be made clearer. Also, a period document noting that the syncopations seemed "arrestingly novel" could be cited to support this claim: the syncopations do still seem fresh nowadays, but are no longer "arrestingly novel".--70.107.173.227 17:53, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

A strain is an episode in march music. See March (music) A Pattern O (talk) 05:02, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tempo

Should someone add something about the fact that people disagree about the tempo?24.218.46.235 21:29, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Looks like you already did. I reverted it, because it was an opinion. The disagreement stems from that people don't realize that "not fast" means "not at 120 or even 140" -- 100 is very well within "slow march tempo" range, as the marking is noted on many of Joplin's pieces. ♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫ 22:29, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Is "Maple Leaf Rag" similar musically to The Entertainer (rag)?

I have heard both a version of Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag on a CD and various versions on The Entertainer(rag) song(on a computer, from an ice cream truck back when I was very young etc. etc.), which is also written by Scott Joplin. Could these two songs be related in some way either rhythmically,in musical notes or in just the sound or the "tune" of the song? Maybe, I don't really know. I just wanted to put that suggestion out there for people to think about, maybe someone could, with the information discovered or researched based on this suggestion and others, someone could maybe add the new information to the "Maple Leaf Rag" article and/or "The Entertainer(rag)" article.

24.250.174.91 03:43, 1 November 2007 (UTC)