The Easy Winners

The Easy Winners

Cover to the first edition sheet music
Rag by Scott Joplin
Published 1901 (1901)
Musical form Rag
Instrument Piano Solo
Genre Ragtime
Publisher Shattinger Music Company

"The Easy Winners" is a ragtime composition by Scott Joplin. One of his most popular works, it was one of the four that had been recorded as of 1940.[1]

Contents

Musical structure

Intro A A B B A Trio-Intro C C D D

The last five measures of the C and D strains are essentially identical, producing what Jasen and Tichenor call a "strong echo-like effect."[2]

Publication history

The copyright was registered October 10, 1901. The Shattinger Music Company of St. Louis, Missouri bought the piece and published a simplified version. Only later did John Stillwell Stark publish it as-written.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Classical Archives". http://www.classicalarchives.com/work/14241.html#about. Retrieved 2009-04-03. 
  2. ^ a b Jasen, David A.; Trebor Jay Tichenor (1978). Rags and Ragtime: A Musical History. New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc.. p. 88. ISBN 0-486-25922-6. 

External links

Scott Joplin
Piano rags
Original Rags (1899)  · Maple Leaf Rag (1899)  · The Easy Winners (1901) · The Entertainer (1902)  · The Ragtime Dance (1902/1906)  · Weeping Willow (1903)  · Searchlight Rag (1907)  · Silver Swan Rag (1914/1971)  · Magnetic Rag (1914)
Operas and other music
A Guest of Honor (1903)  · Bethena (1905)  · Treemonisha (1911)
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