Works Summary

• Rags and other syncopated music for piano: 44, including 2 collaborations with Arthur Marshall, 4 with Scott Hayden, 1 with Louis Chauvin
• Non-syncopated piano music: 8 (5 marches, 3 waltzes)
• Songs, 11
• Stage works: 2 operas (one lost); one folk ballet for piano, singing narrator, and dancers; one vaudeville (lost); one musical comedy (lost)
• Other: 1 ragtime instructional manual; 1 symphony (lost)

- Dates given below are of publication -

Rags & Other Syncopated Music for Piano

1899

• Original Rags
• Maple Leaf Rag

1900

• Swipesy. Cake Walk (co-composer: Arthur Marshall)

1901

• Sun Flower Slow Drag. Rag Time Two Step (co-composer: Scott Hayden)
• Peacherine Rag
• The Easy Winners. A Ragtime Two Step

1902

• Cleopha. March and Two Step (only final strain is syncopated)
• The Strenuous Life. A Ragtime Two Step
• A Breeze from Alabama. A Ragtime Two Step
• Elite Syncopations
• The Entertainer. A Rag Time Two Step
• The "Rag Time Dance" (Piano version; see Stage Works)

1903

• Something Doing. A Ragtime Two Step (co-composer: Scott Hayden)
• Weeping Willow. Ragtime Two Step
• Palm Leaf Rag. A Slow Drag

1904

• The Favorite. Ragtime Two Step
• The Sycamore. A Concert Rag
• The Chrysanthemum. An Afro-American Intermezzo
• The Cascades. A Rag

1905

• Bethena. A Concert Waltz
• Leola. Two Step
• Eugenia

1907

• The Nonpareil. A Rag & Two Step
• Searchlight Rag
• Gladiolus Rag
• Lily Queen. A Ragtime Two-Step (Arthur Marshall, listed as co- composer, was probably sole composer, with editorial emendations made by Joplin.)
• Rose Leaf Rag. A Ragtime Two Step
• Heliotrope Bouquet. A Slow Drag Two Step (co-composer: Louis Chauvin)

1908

• Fig Leaf. A High Class Rag
• Sugar Cane. A Ragtime Classic Twostep
• Sensation (Lists Joplin as co-composer, but Joseph F. Lamb was sole composer.)
• Pine Apple Rag

1909

• Wall Street Rag
• Solace. A Mexican Serenade
• Pleasant Moments. Rag-Time Waltz
• Country Club. Rag Time Two-Step
• Euphonic Sounds. A Syncopated Novelty
• Paragon Rag

1910

• Stoptime Rag

1911

• Felicity Rag. A Ragtime Two Step (co-composer: Scott Hayden; probably composed around 1900)

1912

• Scott Joplin's New Rag

1913

• Kismet Rag (co-composer: Scott Hayden; probably composed around 1900)

1914

• Magnetic Rag
• Silver Swan Rag (published 1971 from piano roll made c. 1914)

1915

• Pretty Pansy (lost; date approximate)
• Recitative Rag (lost; date approximate)

1917

• Reflection Rag (Syncopated Musings) (posthumous; probably composed c. 1907)

Non-Syncopated Piano Music

1896

• The Crush Collision March
• Combination March
• Harmony Club Waltz

1901

• The Augustan Club Waltz

1902

• March Majestic

1905

• Rosebud. Two-Step
• Binks' Waltz

1906

• Antoinette. March and Two-Step

Songs

Except where noted, words and music are by Joplin.

1895

• Please Say You Will
• A Picture of Her Face

1902

• I Am Thinking of My Pickaninny Days (words by Henry Jackson)

1903

• Little Black Baby (words by Louise Armstrong Bristol)

1904

• Maple Leaf Rag. Song (song version of 1899 rag; words by Sydney Brown)

1905

• Sarah Dear (words by Henry Jackson; syncopated, vaudeville song)

1906

• Good-bye Old Gal Good-bye (music by Mac Darden; arr. by Scott Joplin; words by H. Carroll Taylor)

1907

• Snoring Sampson. A Quarrel in Ragtime (words & music by Harry La Mertha; arr. by Scott Joplin)
• When Your Hair Is Like the Snow

1910

• Pine Apple Rag. Song (song version of 1908 rag; words by Joe Snyder)

1911

• Lovin' Babe (words & music by Al. R. Turner; arr. by Scott Joplin)

1915

• Morning Glories (lost)
• For the Sake of All (lost)

Stage Works

1903

• A Guest of Honor (lost)

1906

• The Ragtime Dance (Folk ballet for piano, singing narrator, and dancers; first performed 1899)

1911

• Treemonisha – Opera in Three Acts

1915

• Syncopated Jamboree (vaudeville; lost)

1916

• If (musical comedy; lost)

Other

1908

• School of Ragtime. 6 Exercises for Piano (Instructional Manual)

1916

• Symphony No. 1 (lost; date approximate)

Copyright © 1996, Ed Berlin.