Grade 8 – Upper Advanced Piano solo
With this sheet music, you can play "Maple Leaf Rag" by the King of Ragtime writers, Scott Joplin.
It's an accurate, carefully created piano arrangement of the full piano solo that became Ragtime’s first and most influential hit.
"Maple Leaf Rag" is a multi-strain ragtime march with athletic bass lines and offbeat melodies. Each of the four parts features a recurring theme and a striding bass line with copious seventh chords. The piece may be considered the "archetypal rag" due to its influence on the genre; its structure was the basis for many other rags, including "Sensation" by Joseph Lamb.
This arrangement is for advanced players in E flat Major and Two Four Time and includes a brief history and analysis.  Listen here