Swipesy Cakewalk - Scott Joplin & Arthur Marshall

My performance of the Scott-Joplin collaboration with Athur Marshall.

The mood of the piece is generally quite light-hearted; the occasional clouds are soon followed by more sunshine and the piece ends with a jubilant mood.

I 'sauce-up' the final section a little bit; other recordings I made of this piece had a lot more of that in the other sections, but I decided that all that fussing didn't really improve the sound - in fact it wasn't really all that noticeable. The last section though, I thought could use a litte in the way of adornment. :-)

I generally don't listen to other people's performances of a piece before I upload my own, but I often look afterwards, & I found that my performance of this pieces is rather slower than the others I looked at. While I found the faster versions pleasant enough, to me playing ragtime like that makes the pieces all sound pretty much alike & such performances generally fail to hold my interest for more than about a minute.

[ceciliazepeda]

Gracias por compartir algo tan bello agradable a los ojos, al oído y al corazón.
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[Czarodziejka]

Greeted the new day with this lightweight, finesse Joplin's music ... a beautiful whole. Thank you!!

[jalvarn]

Chopin/Ragtime is cropping up everywhere for me. ...."Joe Lamb....developed...the most haunting chromatic harmonies and exquisitely Chopinesque morbidezza in all ragtime literature...."Blesh. My teacher approved of the way I played Chopin's Prelude, Op. 28 No. 7 (The short one). I played it right before Joplin's Solace awhile ago. Wow! I'm getting good! Thanks, teacher!

[rudbeckie]

Opět pastva pro oči i uši. Jemné, krásné..vkusné...květiny a příroda a klavír... prima Díky s pozdravem.

[Glen_Hoban]

I'm glad you liked the performance and the photos (my new camera has given me some very nice images); Joplin's music is very refined, almost like Chopin in a way. :-)

[Glen_Hoban]

Usted es bienvenido, me alegro de que la música y las imágenes contento el corazón y los ojos. :-)

[Glen_Hoban]

I'm glad that you enjoyed my somewhat unorthodox interpretation! :-)

[Glen_Hoban]

Rudi Blesh? I think I may have read that same book ('They All Played Ragtime') a number of years back. I recall him mentioning Joseph Lamb; I don't think I have any of his sheet music in my collection, but a quick check at the Petrucci Library showed 9 entries, so I might have some soon. (Ethiopia Rag sounds interesting....)

Glad to hear you & your teacher are getting along well. ;-) :-)

[jalvarn]

I'm going to get that one little hard measure perfect tomorrow.

[Glen_Hoban]

I'm guessing the part where it goes to a low 'G' in the left hand. Just keep at it! (Sometimes it really is better to practice slowly too, though I often find myself impatient to enjoy the music & forget this good advice.)

[jalvarn]

I meant thanks to Glen, the teacher. Who never said he was a teacher, Who teaches without knowing that he does.