Kismet Rag (Scott Joplin, 1913) [SJ59]

Описание: Scott Joplin - Kismet Rag

Style: Rag
Year: 1913
Form: Intro A A B B A C C D D
Keys: C/G/C/F/C
Notes: With Scott Hayden. Likely composed before 1903.

"By the time publisher John Stark had retreated back to St. Louis from his nerve-wracking tenure in New York City, and pulled this by now decade old rag from the archives for publication, Scott Hayden had been in Chicago for pretty much that entire decade and Scott Joplin was hard at work pursuing his heartbreaking attempts at staging his ragtime opera Treemonisha. Hayden originally moved to Chicago around 1903 to gain work as a ragtime pianist, but either his style never caught on or he was thwarted in his attempts by possible racial factors. He worked as an elevator operator in the Cook County Hospital (where the T.V. series E.R. takes place) for 12 years until shortly before his death in 1915 of pulmonary tuberculosis. So this rag clearly harkens from a much more optimistic time in the lives of both composers. As with other Hayden rags, the opening strain is bouncy and quite pianistic. The B section follows the unusual modulation up a fifth for contrast, and is much lighter in nature. This same modulation was used in Joplin's The Strenuous Life written about the same time, indicating part of his role in this collaboration. The trio is directly tied to the B section through a similar melodic pattern in measures 5 through 8, and is likely Joplin's. The D section is based on an old folk strain used in many other rags of the time, including the B and D sections of Harry Kelly's Peaceful Henry. Being that kismet is defined as fate, it is clear through the Joplin/Hayden collaborations that kismet was a key word. It is enticing to speculate what more could have come from their combined talents had they not gone their separate ways. But that in itself was kismet." (from ragpiano.com)

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