The Entertainer
by Scott Joplin
Free sheet music library / The Entertainer
Loading the score...
- Key
- C major → F major → C major
- Tempo
- ♩ = 80
- Time
- 2/4
- Bars
- 152
- Level
- Intermediate · Difficulty 6 of 10
- Genre
- Classical
- Origin
- United States
- Composer
- Scott Joplin (1868–1917)
About this piece
Joplin’s best-known rag, published in 1902: strains in C major and F major, with a bright syncopated tune over an even left hand.
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 (1902)” (Mutopia piece 263, 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 The Entertainer (piece 263, typeset from the source “Reproduction of original edition (1902)”; 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