SONG · INTERMEDIATE PUBLIC DOMAIN

The Strenuous Life

BY SCOTT JOPLIN.

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0:00 3:02 · ♩ = 100

THE STRENUOUS LIFE — MELODY + ACCOMPANIMENT Engraved with Verovio (verovio.org)

DIFFICULTY: Intermediate
BARS: 152
SECTIONS: 19
TEMPO: ♩ = 100
MELODY NOTES: 755
PARTS: Melody + chords

PUBLIC DOMAIN

The Strenuous Life (1902). Public domain. Encoded mechanically from the public-domain Mutopia Project edition. Typeset by Benjamin Bloomfield. Edition source: John Stark & Son. 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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