Scott Joplin - Bethena 1905 (A Ragtime Piano Concert Waltz Synthesia)

Bethena by Scott Joplin

Sequenced by: Warren S. Trachtman

Wikipedia:
Scott Joplin was an American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was dubbed the King of Ragtime. During his brief career, he wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first and most popular pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became ragtime's first and most influential hit, and has been recognized as the archetypal rag.

Joplin grew up in a musical family of railway laborers in Texarkana, Arkansas, and developed his own musical knowledge with the help of local teachers. While in Texarkana, Texas, he formed a vocal quartet and taught mandolin and guitar. During the late 1880s he left his job as a railroad laborer and travelled the American South as an itinerant musician. He went to Chicago for the World's Fair of 1893, which played a major part in making ragtime a national craze by 1897.

Joplin moved to Sedalia, Missouri, in 1894 and earned a living as a piano teacher. There he taught future ragtime composers Arthur Marshall, Scott Hayden and Brun Campbell. He began publishing music in 1895, and publication of his "Maple Leaf Rag" in 1899 brought him fame. This piece had a profound influence on writers of ragtime. It also brought Joplin a steady income for life, though he did not reach this level of success again and frequently had financial problems. In 1901 Joplin moved to St. Louis, where he continued to compose and publish, and regularly performed in the community. The score to his first opera A Guest of Honor was confiscated in 1903 with his belongings for non-payment of bills, and is now considered lost.

In 1907, Joplin moved to New York City to find a producer for a new opera. He attempted to go beyond the limitations of the musical form that made him famous, but without much monetary success. His second opera, Treemonisha, was never fully staged during his lifetime.

In 1916, Joplin descended into dementia as a result of syphilis. He was admitted to a mental institution in January 1917, and died there three months later at the age of 48. Joplin's death is widely considered to mark the end of ragtime as a mainstream music format; over the next several years, it evolved with other styles into stride, jazz, and eventually big band swing.

Joplin's music was rediscovered and returned to popularity in the early 1970s with the release of a million-selling album recorded by Joshua Rifkin. This was followed by the Academy Award-winning 1973 film The Sting that featured several of Joplin's compositions, most notably "The Entertainer", whose performance by pianist Marvin Hamlisch received wide airplay. Treemonisha was finally produced in full, to wide acclaim, in 1972. In 1976, Joplin was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize.

This video quote:
"Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy" - Scott Joplin
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[SQUAREHEADSAM]

Sad story behind it, it was made after the death of his 2nd wife Freddie Alexander in 1905. Heart broke and alone he admitted himself to mental hospital, and for several months, he would compose no new music. He fell silent. It’s entirely possible that the woman on the poster for the piece is her, buts it’s not been confirmed. All this happened just months after his child passed away and his first wife left him.

[pixel_meltdown]

this was the piece i played for my exam!

[dlynskey]

Romantic, Slow, Reflective, very melancholic and cathchy bethena is by far one of the greatest works joplin ever composed during a time of reflection and heartbreak before he emitted himself to the mental hospital there he would write one final fragment

[cdllc]

Ooohhh YIPPIE!
I waited for Bethena so long

[treyson]

Can you do the Fig Leaf and Sensation Piano Roll?

[neodynamo]

I hope you can do a tutorial for Almost like being in love - Garland!

[WeegeeFanStudios]

Love this song to death. Top 3 songs of all time in my books.
I have a video of this song I made in Concert Creator before it shut down.

[christophertheconqueror]

Ahhhh Benjamin Button is where I recognized the opening sequence