SONG · INTERMEDIATE PUBLIC DOMAIN

Original Rags

Scott Joplin

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0:00 3:47 · ♩ = 100

ORIGINAL RAGS — MELODY + ACCOMPANIMENT Engraved with Verovio (verovio.org)

DIFFICULTY: Intermediate
BARS: 189
SECTIONS: 24
TEMPO: ♩ = 100
MELODY NOTES: 1047
PARTS: Melody + chords

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Original Rags (1907). Public domain. Encoded mechanically from the public-domain Mutopia Project edition. Typeset by Tom Harke. Edition source: Unknown. The melody is the top line of the edition's first staff as printed; the accompaniment is a simplified one-chord-per-bar reduction of the edition’s second staff.

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