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Scott Joplin: The Complete Works (Dick Hyman)

Scott Joplin: The Complete Works (Dick Hyman)

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In many ways, American concert music begins with composer/pianist Scott Joplin. Certainly there were songwriters such as Stephen Foster and concert music by such composers as John Knowles Paine, William Henry Fry, and George Chadwick. But ragtime was a product of Afro-American roots, formalized into short piano works that demanded a reasonable technique…

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