![]() If you’d like to learn to play this piece correctly, find the sheet music at IMSLP, Beethoven: Exploring His Life and Music, and countless compilations of classical music available at the O’Connor Music Studio. The actual beginning is a little more involved. This is one of two pieces that are so often played incorrectly that they have the distinction of being banned from competition in Northern Virginia Piano Teacher competitions.įür Elise was not published during Beethoven’s lifetime, having been discovered by Ludwig Nohl 40 years after the composer’s death. It’s usually played too fast and, often in the wrong octave, or the first couple notes are repeated too many times. Today’s piece is one of those that piano students often try to learn on their own – or a friend will teach them the first 9 notes. Leave a comment Posted in Alfred Premier Piano Course, Book 6, Composers, Daily Listening Assignment, Lending Library, Music Books, Piano Pronto, Songs I Love to Play Tagged Adam Swanson, Alfred Premier Piano Course Book 6, Daily Listening Assignment, Disney, guitar, Marvin Hamlisch, piano maestro, ragtime, Scott Joplin, Songs I Love to Play, The Sting Daily Listening Assignments ~ June 30, 2023 It’s also available in Piano Maestro and to borrow from the O’Connor Music StudioĪnd, everyone’s favorite – the ice cream truck! The Sting was set in the 1930s, a full generation after the end of ragtime’s mainstream popularity, thus giving the inaccurate impression that ragtime music was popular at that time.įind the sheet music in a variety of levels including Songs I Love to Play, Volume 1 and Alfred Premier Piano Course Book 4. It was used as the theme music for the 1973 Oscar-winning film The Sting by composer and pianist Marvin Hamlisch. ![]() ![]() It was sold first as sheet music, and in the 1910s as piano rolls that would play on player pianos. “The Entertainer” is a 1902 classic piano rag written by Scott Joplin. Leave a comment Posted in Birthday, Composers, Holidays, musicians, Pianists, Today in Music History Tagged blues, composer, jazz, Jelly Roll Morton, pianist, ragtime, the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, the Red Hot Peppers, video Daily Listening Assignments ~ August 6, 2023 Morton died in 1941, claiming that a voodoo spell was the cause of his demise. Nothing but success came to him until 1930, when “Hot Jazz” began to die out, and big bands began to take over. He joined the group “the Red Hot Peppers” in 1924 and made several classic albums with the Victor label. Whether he played on the West Coast, New Orleans, or in Chicago, his recordings were always very popular. Morton became successful when he started making what would be some of the first jazz recordings in 1923 with “the New Orleans Rhythm Kings”. Along with being a musician, he also worked as a gambler, pool shark, vaudeville comedian, and was known for his flamboyant personality and diamond front tooth. ![]() His career began in New Orleans, where he began to experiment with a unique blend of blues, ragtime, Creole, and Spanish music in bordellos as a piano player. In a sense, he was the first great jazz composer. Jelly Roll Morton, born Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe in 1885, was one of the most influential composers of the jazz era, bridging an important gap between ragtime, blues, and jazz.
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