Maple Leaf Rag
by Scott Joplin
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- Key
- Ab major → Db major → Ab major
- Tempo
- ♩ = 100
- Time
- 2/4
- Bars
- 145
- Level
- Intermediate · Difficulty 6 of 10
- Genre
- Classical
- Origin
- United States
- Composer
- Scott Joplin (1868–1917)
About this piece
The complete rag of 1899, the piece that made ragtime famous: four strains in 2/4, with the steady left hand and the syncopated right hand of the style.
Why it is free to use
Scott Joplin died in 1917, more than 70 years ago. The notes come from the Mutopia Project's typesetting, taken from the source “Reproduction of original edition (1899)” (Mutopia piece 23, licence: Public Domain); we converted them to MusicXML and checked them against Mutopia's MIDI file, note for note.
About this score
This is the complete piece, not an excerpt. The notes were converted from the Mutopia Project's public-domain typesetting of Maple Leaf Rag (piece 23, typeset from the source “Reproduction of original edition (1899)”; licence: Public Domain) and checked against Mutopia's MIDI file, note for note (repeats included). The score is the same music in a different file format; we dedicate our conversion to the public domain (CC0 1.0). Mutopia Project page