{"id":10981,"date":"2024-04-24T10:23:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T10:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happynote.com\/music\/?p=10981"},"modified":"2025-07-06T04:53:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T04:53:58","slug":"scott-joplin-the-entertainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happynote.com\/music\/scott-joplin-the-entertainer\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Joplin &#8211; The Entertainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Entertainer_(rag)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Entertainer<\/em><\/a>&#8221; is a 1902 classic piano rag written by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scott_Joplin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scott Joplin<\/a>. It was sold first as sheet music by John Stark &amp; Son of St. Louis, Missouri,[2] and in the 1910s as piano rolls that would play on player pianos. The first recording was by blues and ragtime musicians the Blue Boys in 1928, played on mandolin and guitar. As one of the classics of ragtime, it returned to international prominence as part of the ragtime revival in the 1970s, when it was used as the theme music for the 1973 Oscar-winning film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0070735\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Sting<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ND2rMET4MVw?si=9-a9Y0G3vOLETp-R&amp;start=10\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class='code-block code-block-10' style='margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;'>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sound and Colored Notes \u2014 Start or Improve Your Music Reading!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/oKf1357ljBE?si=gKdi9M_I7YPF_H-T\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLfwFLayAiGs0ME6Bgjx0aNQMbmjW3K3IC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andante \u2014 Moderato \u2014 Bass Clef \u2014 Do Re Mi... Si\/Ti \u2014 All Videos<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/><\/div>\n\n<h2>The Entertainer, Other Performance<\/h2>\n<h3>Player Piano<\/h3>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/aseMAEctM1s?si=-vdzjy_G_j4RoYBd&amp;start=21\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Entertainer&#8221; is a 1902 classic piano rag written by Scott Joplin. 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