Scott Joplin, An American Composer Was Born On November 24, 1868 In Texarkana, T

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Term Paper Title	Scott Joplin, An American Composer Was Born On November 24, 1868 In Texarkana, T
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Scott Joplin, an American composer was born on November 24, 1868 in Texarkana, Texas, a small city straddling the border of Texas and Arkansas.  Joplin studied piano with teachers near his home in Texas.  From the mid-1880s, he gave piano performances throughout the Midwest, and he performed at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.
He grew up in a musical environment since most of his family played an instrument or sang and consequently young Scott became fascinated with the piano.  He taught himself to play with considerable proficiency so that by the age of 11 his superior ability had reached the white community and particularly aroused the interest of an old German music teacher.
Joplin left home in his early teens hoping to find his fortune through his talent of music.  He lived in St. Louis from 1885 to 1893 playing piano in local honky-tonks.  Chicago was his next stop, being one of a number of musicians who sought work among the clubs, bars, and honky-tonks that sprang up around the World's Columbian, Exposition.  For a brief period following, he settled in Sedalia, Missouri where he played second cornet in the Queen City Concert Band.
The next two years he spent touring with a vocal group he had formed.  It was during this phase that Joplin began to write his own compositions, some of which he published--a pair of waltz songs and three piano pieces.  The vocal group dissolved in 1896 and Scott returned to Sedalia.
The return to Sedalia marked a crucial turning point in Joplin's career.  He decided to attend George Smith College, an educational institution for blacks sponsored by the Methodist Church, where he worked at translating the elusive rhythms of ragtime into musical notation and also continued to refine his creative imagination.  Scott composed his first rag which he called "The Maple Leaf Rag," immortalizing a club in Sedalia by that name.  The best pianists flocked to the Maple Leaf Club, which had become a favorite in Sedalia due to the Joplin piece.  This put Sedalia on the map.  Joplin despite this fame had difficulty getting the composition published.  A local firm turned it down, as did a St. Louis publishing house, which had bought his original Rags.
A break for Joplin came in 1899 through a local Sedalia music dealer named Joseph Stark.  Mr. through a local Sedalia music...

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