The Entertainer-The Sting Theme-Scott Joplin-Free Piano Sheet Music & Piano Chords The Entertainer-The Sting Theme-Scott Joplin Introduction } Free The Entertainer piano sheet music is provided for you. So if you like it, just download it here. Enjoy It! The Entertainer is a 1902 classic piano rag written by Scott Joplin. One of the classics of ragtime, The Entertainer returned to top 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 The Sting. Composer and pianist Marvin Hamlisch's adaptation reached #3 on the Billboard pop chart and spent a week at #1 on the easy listening chart in 1974. The Stingwas set in the 1930s, a full generation after the end of ragtime's mainstream popularity, thus giving the mistaken impression that ragtime music was popular at that time. The Recording Industry Association of America ranked it #10 on its "Songs of the Century" list.

The Entertainer-The Sting Theme-Scott Joplin Stave Preview ( Total 2 ) The Entertainer (Ragtime) - Scott Joplin | Piano Sheet Music - YouTube The Entertainer (Ragtime) - Scott Joplin | Piano Sheet Music Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on May 29, 2016 "The Entertainer" is a 1902 classic piano rag written by Scott Joplin. 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 The Sting. Composer and pianist Marvin Hamlisch's adaptation reached #3 on the Billboard pop chart and spent a week at #1 on the easy listening chart in 1974.

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. The Recording Industry Association of America ranked it #10 on its "Songs of the Century" list. Category The Entertainer by Scott Joplin Songfacts The Entertainer by Scott Joplin Songfacts Songfacts This rag was composed by Scott Joplin, the first classically trained black composer to become a household name in America. The piece was copyrighted December 29, 1902; copies were received by the Copyright Office, January 8, 1903. Joplin died in April 1917; although his place in the history of contemporary music was already secured, he predicted that he would not receive the recognition he deserved until twenty-five years after his death. Ragtime was eventually succeeded by jazz, and although there was a revival in the 1940s, Joplin's prediction was not truly fulfilled until 1973 when "The Entertainer" was used as the theme music for the multiple Oscar winning film The Sting.

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Studying piano with teachers near his childhood home, Joplin traveled through the Midwest from the mid-1880s, performing at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Settling in Sedalia, MO, in 1895, he studied music at the ... See full bio » Born: a list of 619 people created 10 May 2011 a list of 5865 people created 11 months ago a list of 35 images created 1 month ago Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Scott Joplin's work have you seen? User Polls 2014 Dress Rehearsal (Short) (writer: "Maple Leaf Rag") ( completed ) 2016 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Where Is Josh's Friend? (2016) ...

(writer: "The Entertainer" - uncredited) The Simpsons (TV Series) (1 episode, 1997) (writer - 7 episodes, 1993 - 2016) (music - 2 episodes, 2002 - 2005) 2016 Another Period (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Joplin (2016) ... (writer: "The Entertainer" - uncredited) 2016 Art Mystery (Short) (performer: "Kimset Rag") 2015 ImagiGARY (writer: "Maple Leaf Rag") 2015 Reel Iconic (TV Mini-Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Double Identity (2015) ... (writer: "The Entertainer") 2015 Community (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Grifting 101 (2015) ...

(writer: "The Entertainer" - uncredited) 2015 Good Morning, Pallas Athena (Documentary short) (writer: "Solace") 2015 Obni (Short) (writer: "Ragtime Dance") 2014 Le voyage cinématographique de Gaston Méliès à Tahiti (Documentary) ("Bethena", "Joseph Lamb", "Pineapple Rag") 2014/II Kamikaze (writer: "The Entertainer" - as S. Joplin) 2014 Murdoch Mysteries (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - The Rehearsal Dinner (2013) ... (writer: "Maple Leaf Rag" - uncredited) - Drumroll, Please (2006) ...

(writer: "The Entertainer" - uncredited) 2013 Movie Guide (TV Series) (writer - 10 episodes) 2012 Smitty (writer: "Maple Leaf Rag") 2011/III Jimmy (Short) (writer: "The Ragtime Dance") 2011 The Big Something (writer: "Original Rags", "Maple Leaf Rag") 2011/I Play (writer: "The Entertainer") 2011 Dancing Stars (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Episode #6.2 (2011) ... (writer: "The Entertainer" - uncredited) Boardwalk Empire (TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes, 2010) (performer - 1 episode, 2010) - Family Limitation (2010) ... (performer: "A Real Slow Drag" - uncredited) / (writer: "Palm Leaf Rag", "A Real Slow Drag", "Maple Leaf Rag" - uncredited) - Nights in Ballygran (2010) ...

(writer: "Wall Street Rag", "Magnetic Rag" - uncredited) - Our All Time Favourite Films (2010) ... (writer: "The Entertainer" - uncredited) 2010 Treme (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Episode dated 25 January 2010 (2010) ... (writer: "The Entertainer" - uncredited) Ugly Betty (TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes, 2009) (performer - 1 episode, 2009) - The Bahamas Triangle (2009) ... (writer: "Maple Leaf Rag" - uncredited) - Level (7) with Me (2009) ... (performer: "Maple Leaf Rag" - uncredited) / (writer: "Maple Leaf Rag" - uncredited) 2009 Gun Town (writer: "Maple Leaf Rag" - uncredited) - Going Home: 1920-1933 (2009) ... (writer: "Pineapple Rag", "Leola") 2009 Jeopardy!

(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Episode #26.7 (2009) ... (writer: "Maple Leaf Rag", "The Entertainer") 2009 Hell's Kitchen (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) 2009 Silhouettes of Jazz (Short) (writer: "Maple Leaf Rag") 2009 Tosh.0 (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Billoon45 (2009) ... (writer: "The Entertainer" - uncredited) 2009 History Detectives (TV Series documentary) (music - 1 episode) 2009 Coco Before Chanel ("Little Black Baby") 2009 Damages (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - I Knew You Were a Pig (2009) ...

(writer: "Solace - A Mexican Serenade") 2008 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (performer: "Country Club", "Elite Syncopations", "The Chrysanthemum") / (writer: "Country Club", "Elite Syncopations", "The Chrysanthemum", "Bethena (A Concert Waltz)") 2008 The Blue Tooth Virgin (writer: "Cleopha", "Something Doing", "Sunflower Snow Dog", "The Sycamore", "The Chrysanthemum", "The Strenous Life", "I Am Thinking of My Pickaninny Days") 2007 Break-up Therapy (Short) ("Maple Leaf Rag") 2007 House (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Half-Wit (2007) ... (writer: "The Entertainer" - uncredited) - X Gets the Crest (2005) ... (music: "The Entertainer" - uncredited) 2005 Robot Chicken (TV Series) (music - 1 episode) - Nightmare Generator (2005) ...

(music: "Maple Leaf Rag") 2005 Charmed (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Show Ghouls (2005) ... (writer: "Maple Leaf Rag" - uncredited) 2005 Unleashed ("The Entertainer") - Queen of Hearts (2004) ... (writer: "The Entertainer") 2004 Eve's Christmas (TV Movie) (writer: "Something Doing") 2002 Ben & Arthur ("The Entertainer") 2001 Mark Twain (TV Movie documentary) (writer: "Ragtime Dance", "The Entertainer") 2000 The Unforgettable Les Dawson (TV Movie documentary) (writer: "The Entertainer") 2000 Mission Hill (TV Series) (music - 1 episode) 2000 The Golden Bowl (writer: "Wall Street Rag") 1999 Lansky (TV Movie) (writer: "The Easy Winners") 1998 Space Ghost Coast to Coast (TV Series) (music - 1 episode) - Cahill (1998) ...

(music: "Mapleleaf Rag" - uncredited) 1996 Titanic (TV Mini-Series) (music: "Chrysanthemum", "Bethany" - uncredited) 1996 Animaniacs (TV Series) (music - 1 episode) - Something Like a War (1994) ... (writer: "Magnetic Rag", "Solice - A Mexican Serenade", "Euphonic Sounds", "Weeping Willow") 1994 Crumb (Documentary) (writer: "A Real Slow Drag") 1993 The Boys (TV Series) ("Bethena: A Concert Waltz") 1992 Northern Exposure (TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes) 1991 Tiny Toon Adventures (TV Series) (music - 1 episode) - Going Places (1991) ... (music: "The Entertainer" - uncredited) 1991 Grand Isle (writer: "Pleasant Moments") 1991 Bix (writer: "Maple Leaf Rag") 1989 America's Funniest Home Videos (TV Series) (music: "St.

Louis Rag" - uncredited) 1986-1989 Growing Pains (TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes) - Paper Route (1989) ... (writer: "The Entertainer" - uncredited) 1986 America's Musical Theater (TV Series) (music - 1 episode) - Treemonisha (1986) ... (music: "Treemonisha" (opera)) 1985 Morons from Outer Space (music: "THE ENTERTAINER" - uncredited) 1984 Derrick (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) 1984 Before Stonewall (Documentary) (music: "The Entertainer" - uncredited) 1984 Burlexxx (writer: "Maple Leaf Rag" - uncredited) - Episode #1.429 (1984) ...

(writer: "The Entertainer") 1983 Sahara (music: "Ragtime Dance" - uncredited) 1982 Domino Man (Video Game) (writer: "Maple Leaf Rag") 1981 Reds (writer: "Country Club - Ragtime Two-Step") 1981 American Pop (writer: "Palm Leaf Rag", "Maple Leaf Rag") 1979 S.O.S. Titanic (TV Movie) ("Elite Syncopations", uncredited) 1979 Flambards (TV Mini-Series) (1 episode) - Sing No Sad Songs (1979) ...

("Scott Joplin's New Rag", uncredited) 1978 Just a Gigolo (music: "The Ragtime Dance", "Easy Winners") 1978 Killer of Sheep (writer: "Solace") 1978 Pretty Baby (music: "Swipesy", "Heliotrope Bouquet", "The Ragtime Dance" - uncredited) The Muppet Show (TV Series) (music - 2 episodes, 1976 - 1977) (writer - 1 episode, 1977) 1975 Brother Can You Spare a Dime (Documentary) (music: "The Entertainer" (1902) - uncredited) 1975 In Concert (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Episode #3.15 (1975) ...

(writer: "The Entertainer (Theme from the motion picture THE STING)") 1975 In Flight Service (writer: "Maple Leaf Rag" - uncredited) The Two Ronnies (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode, 1975) (music - 1 episode, 1975) - Episode #4.6 (1975) ... (writer: "Maple Leaf Rag (Satchmo)") - Episode #4.1 (1975) ... (music: "The Entertainer") 1974 The Magician (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - The Illusion of the Lethal Playthings (1974) ...

(writer: "Peacherine Rag" - uncredited) 1973 The Sting (writer: "Easy Winners" (1901), "The Entertainer" (1902), "Gladiolus Rag" (1907), "Pineapple Rag" (1908), "Rag Time Dance" (1906), "Solace" (1909) - uncredited) The Entertainer – Scott Joplin The Entertainer – Scott Joplin [download .pdf] “The Entertainer ” is a 1902 classic piano rag written by Scott Joplin.One of the classics of ragtime, it returned to top 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 The Sting. Composer and pianist Marvin Hamlisch ‘s adaptation reached #3 on the Billboard pop chart and spent a week at #1 on the easy listening chart in 1974.

The Sting was set in the 1930s, a full generation after the end of ragtime’s mainstream popularity, thus giving the mistaken impression that ragtime music was popular at that time.The Recording Industry Association of America ranked it #10 on its ” Songs of the Century ” list. How to Learn The Piano Part Once upon a time, there were only shops that enabled you to order common music from. The benefit of owning music 24/7 should not be overestimated. For those, that didn`t like shopping for music (ahem, students) they usually had to beg a friend or even colleague to photocopy it from them. Popular Posts The Entertainer [Intermediate Version] - Scott Joplin - Piano Sheet Music notestoreUK Description Details "The Entertainer" is a 1902 classic piano rag written by Scott Joplin. One of the classics of ragtime, it returned to top 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 The Sting.

Composer and pianist Marvin Hamlisch's adaptation reached number three on the Billboard pop chart and spent a week at number one on the easy listening chart in 1974. The Sting was set in the 1930s, a full generation after the end of ragtime's mainstream popularity, thus giving the mistaken impression that ragtime music was popular at that time. The Recording Industry Association of America ranked it #10 on its "Songs of the Century" list. Source: Wikipedia Oscars 1974: The Music of Marvin Hamlisch – Scott Joplin and The Sting (1973) | Marvin Hamlisch Oscars 1974: The Music of Marvin Hamlisch – Scott Joplin and The Sting (1973) February 28, 2016 The Sting (Film, 1973) won Oscars for: Best Picture: Tony Bill, Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips, Best Director: George Roy Hill Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced: David S. Ward Best Art Direction-Set Decoration: Henry Bumstead, James W.

Payne Best Costume Design: Edith Head Best Film Editing: William Reynolds Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation: Marvin Hamlisch “The piano player in me had found a long-lost brother in Scott Joplin.” – Marvin Hamlisch (1944-2012) The Plot: The Sting is a 1973 American caper film set in September 1936, involving a complicated plot by two professional grifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw). The Hook: The story was inspired by real-life cons perpetrated by brothers Fred and Charley Gondorff and documented by David Maurer in his book The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man. The Wire: The title phrase refers to the moment when a con artist finishes the “play” and takes the mark’s money. If a con is successful, the mark does not realize he has been “taken” (cheated), at least not until the con men are long gone. The film is played out in distinct sections with old-fashioned title cards, with lettering and illustrations rendered in a style reminiscent of the Saturday Evening Post.

The Sting: The film is noted for its anachronistic use of ragtime, particularly the melody “The Entertainer” by Scott Joplin, which was adapted for the movie by Marvin Hamlisch (and a top-ten chart single for Hamlisch when released as a single from the film’s soundtrack). The film’s success encouraged a surge of popular and critical acclaim for Joplin’s work. The Music of Scott Joplin and The Film The Sting : With Joplin’s death in 1917, the ragtime rage subsided but experienced a phenomenal rebirth in the 1970’s when celebrated musicians and symphony orchestras performed his “rags.” Joplin set the standard for ragtime compositions and played a key role in the development of ragtime music. Composer Marvin Hamlisch did arrangements of Scott Joplin’s music for the movie The Sting (1973) “While the film “The Way We Were” was in post-production, I got a message from director George Roy Hill. I had loved his Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and he said he needed to talk to me right away. -Marvin, it’s not an original score I need.

All I want you to do is adapt some music for me.” -I thought: Please… I don’t do adaptations. I’m a composer. I write my own music. But once again I heeded the biblical injunction that “pride goeth before a fall.” I quickly realized that this was one of the best pictures I had seen in years. David Ward had written a witty, stylish script, George Roy Hill had directed it faultlessly, and Newman and Redford were the best screen couple in years. Paul Newman and Robert Redford From the beginning, George Roy Hill’s idea had always been to use the ragtime music of Scott Joplin. I was well aware that there were other musicians who knew the music of Scott Joplin far more intimately than I, men who had popularized Joplin’s famous piano “rags.” But I knew how to write for film, marrying music to the length of each scene, and I could also play the piano “rags”- those Juilliard piano lessons were about to pay off. The real fun came for me when we started recording the soundtrack.

We didn’t have a full-size orchestra, as with “The Way We Were,” but we had eight or nine great musicians, with yours truly at the keyboard. We spent hours making ragtime; the piano player in me had found a long-lost brother in Scott Joplin. Watch: Sample of Musical Adaptation for The Sting (Film 1973) The music for The Sting was getting a lot of mention in the reviews. (Who would have guessed that a ragtime single would bounce to the top of the charts?) Of course, there were critics. Some carped that Scott Joplin’s music was out of place in a movie set in another era. The film was set in the thirties; the Joplin “rags” were written around the turn of the century. I had been aware of this. I knew this might cause a problem for some purists. But the music and movie had a great kinship-a good humor and high spirits. It received many nomination and won many Oscars” – Marvin Hamlisch.

Scenes from the film THE STING: The Music for The Sting: The Joplin’s rags, from early in the 1900’s, were adapted to evoke the 1930’s Era to this Gangster movie. The two Jazz Age style tunes written by Hamlisch are chronologically much closer to the film’s time period.

1.”Solace” (Joplin) – orchestral version 2.”The Entertainer” (Joplin) – orchestral version 3.”The Easy Winners” (Joplin) 5.”Luther” – same basic tune as “Solace”, re-arranged by Hamlisch as a dirge 6.”Pine Apple Rag” / “Gladiolus Rag” medley (Joplin) 7.”The Entertainer” (Joplin) – piano version 8.” The Glove ” (Hamlisch) – a Jazz Age style number; only a short segment was used in the film 9.”Little Girl” (Madeline Hyde, Francis Henry) – not in the final cut of the film 10.” Pine Apple Rag ” (Joplin) 11.”Merry-Go-Round Music” medley (traditional) – “Listen to the Mocking Bird” was the only portion of this track that was actually used in the film, along with the second segment of “King Cotton”, a Sousa march, which was not on the album 12.”Solace” (Joplin) – piano version 13.”The Ent

ertainer” / “The Ragtime Dance” medley (Joplin) RELATED CONTENT: MUSICALS: Scott Joplin was a composer, a pianist and a music teacher.

He was the second of six children born to Giles Joplin and Florence Givens. (Born around 1867-1868) Joplin grew up in Texarkana, TX where he formed a vocal quartet, and taught mandolin and guitar. During the late 1880s he decided to travel around the American South as an itinerant Musician. He traveled along the Mississippi River from New Orleans to St. Louis. He went to Chicago for the World’s Fair of 1893 , which played a major part in making ragtime a national craze: By the early 1900’s Joplin became the creator of a “ragtime madness” that swept the world. The syncopated melodies and richness of his lyrical ragtime tunes were so well respected technically that they influenced even classical composers such as Stravinsky and Debussy . During his brief career, (he died at age 49), he wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas.

MAPLE LEAF RAG: His most famous piece, “Maple Leaf Rag”, published in 1899, propelled Joplin to massive fame and reputedly sold over a million copies of sheet music, an unheard of feat! Musical structure of Maple Leaf Rag: AA BB A CC DD “Maple Leaf Rag” is a multi- strain ragtime march with athletic bass lines and offbeat melodies. Each of the four parts features a recurring theme and a striding bass line with copious seventh chords . The piece may be considered the ‘archetypal rag’ due to its influence on the genre; its structure was the basis for many other famous rags. Maple Leaf Rag Seventh Chord Resolution: “A pervasive sense of lyricism infuses his work, and even at his most high-spirited, he cannot repress a hint of melancholy or adversity…He had little in common with the fast and flashy school of ragtime that grew up after him.” – Joshua Rifkin, a leading Joplin recording artist Joplin and his fellow ragtime composers rejuvenated American popular music by creating exhilarating and liberating dance tunes, changing American musical taste.

“Joplin’s music had helped to “revolutionize American music and culture” by removing Victorian restraint.” – Biographer Susan Curtis WATCH – From film: Scott Joplin. (Dueling piano competition) After the publication of the Maple Leaf Rag, Joplin was soon being described as “King of ragtime writers.” This new art form, the classic rag, combined Afro-American folk music’s syncopation and nineteenth-century European romanticism, with its harmonic schemes and its march-like tempos. In the words of one critic, “ragtime was basically… an Afro-American version of the polka, or its analog, the Sousa-style march. Joplin wrote his rags as “classical” music in miniature form in order to raise ragtime above its “cheap bordello” origins and produced work which opera historian Elise Kirk described as “…more tuneful, contrapuntal, infectious, and harmonically colorful than any others of his era. “In the hands of authentic practitioners like Joplin, ragtime was a disciplined form capable of astonishing variety and subtlety…Joplin did for the rag what Chopin did for the mazurka.

His style ranged from tones of torment to stunning serenades that incorporated the bolero and the tango.” -Joplin’s historian Bill Ryerson By 1904, Joplin married Freddie Alexander of Little Rock, Arkansas, (his second marriage). To this young woman he had dedicated The Chrysanthemum . She died ten weeks after their wedding. Joplin’s first work copyrighted after Freddie’s death, Bethena , was described by one biographer as “an enchantingly beautiful piece that is among the greatest of ragtime waltzes”. This compositon was also used in the film: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Magnetic Rag (1914) (Listen to version by Perlman/Previn) Scott Joplin wrote more than 40 piano rags, but he also wrote two operas; A Guest of Honor and Treemonisha. A Guest of Honor was performed in Joplin’s lifetime, but since then the music has been lost. Treemonisha was never performed while Joplin was alive, but it has been performed since then. Joplin also wrote a symphony, but the music has been lost.

OPERA : T R E E M O N I S H A Treemonisha was set in the post-bellum period , after the war and emancipation. The freed men and women were poverty stricken and being taken advantage of by hucksters peddling goofer dust . Schooling was not available, and Treemonisha was the only educated member of the community. She challenged the hucksters and was chosen as the loader of the community, to help them progress. Watch the finale with lyrics from Marching Onward: LISTEN – Treemonisha – Opera Recording: The plot of Treemonisha is that education is the way forward, not the old superstitions. The setting is after the Civil War. The main point: EDUCATION makes us strong! Joplin self published Treemonisha in 1911, during the ragtime era. They are not making light of it: when Scott Joplin wrote this in the early part of the 20th century he was trying to encourage his people to “march onward”. This is a very optimistic and uplifting story.

Scott Joplin – additional awards and recognition: 1970: Joplin was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame by the National Academy of Popular Music. 1976: Joplin was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his special contribution to American music. 1977: Motown Productions produced Scott Joplin, a biographical film starring Billy Dee Williams as Joplin, released by Universal Pictures. 1983: the United States Postal Service issued a stamp of the composer as part of its Black Heritage Stamp by The U. S. Postal Service commemorative series. 1989: Joplin received a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame . 2002: a collection of Joplin’s own performances recorded on piano rolls in the 1900s was included by the National Recording Preservation Board in the Library of Congress National Recording Registry. The board annually selects songs that are “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” “Those few who realized his greatness bowed their heads in sorrow. This was the passing of the king of all ragtime writers, the man who gave America a genuine native music.” jazz historian Floyd Levin

Question: Which 1973 film used The Entertainer as its theme music?
Answer: THE STING