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Scott Joplin. Bethena. String Quartet. - Score. Sheet Music. String Quartet. STR QUARTET. Scott Joplin.

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Scott Joplin. Bethena. String Quartet. - Score. Partitions. String Quartet. STR QUARTET. Scott Joplin.

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Scott Joplin was born into a poor black family in Texas in 1868, just three years after the abolition of slavery. As a teenager he left home to work as a saloon pianist in St Louis, a cosmopolitan Mississippi port and the birthplace of Ragtime, the lively piano style which had developed from syncopated minstrel songs and dances. Among many talented black pianists Joplin was the first with the ability to set down in musical notation this new art form, and his second published rag, Maple Leaf. to which Roseleaf Rag makes a worthy counterpart. , was a nationwide hit in 1899. Besides rags Joplin wrote other sorts of piano music, such as the graceful Bethena, which he calls "a concert waltz" and the lovely Solace. featured in the hit film The Sting. , whose gentle melancholy and emotionally-charged pauses are overlaid on the rhythms of a Mexican Serenade.

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Scott Joplin est né dans une famille pauvre noire au Texas en 1868, juste trois ans après l'abolition de l'esclavage. As a teenager he left home to work as a saloon pianist in St Louis, a cosmopolitan Mississippi port and the birthplace of Ragtime, the lively piano style which had developed from syncopated minstrel songs and dances. Parmi les nombreux pianistes noirs talentueux Joplin était le premier avec la possibilité de définir dans la notation musicale de cette nouvelle forme d'art, et sa deuxième rag publié, Maple Leaf. à laquelle Roseleaf Rag fait un digne pendant. , A été un succès à l'échelle nationale en 1899. Outre chiffons Joplin a écrit d'autres sortes de musique de piano, comme le Bethena gracieuse, qu'il appelle «une valse de concert" et la belle Solace. en vedette dans le film à succès The Sting. , Dont la douce mélancolie et pauses chargées d'émotion sont superposées sur les rythmes d'une sérénade mexicaine.