One of Scott Joplin's compositions in the Works list was written about an actual news event involving a planned collision of two trains:
The great Crush collision march, for piano (1896). Temple TX: John R. Fuller, 1896. Duration: 4:12. Dedication: Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway. [see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush,_Texas.]
was an African American Composer
and Pianist of Ragtime and Classical
Music who wrote three operas
Dr. Dominique-René de Lerma, the renowned musicologist who is principal adviser to AfriClassical.com, has used his many years of research to contribute a Bibliography and Works list which have been added to the Scott Joplin page. He explains the need for a Bibliography to the composer's career:
Dr. Dominique-René de Lerma:
The
arrival of ragtime and Scott Joplin came on the wake of Antonín
Dvořák's visit and his stimulus to develop an American musical
language by looking at the spiritual, and the agony of American
cultural inferiority complex. It was during his life that
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's visit and the birth of Black musical
theater in New York. The United States saw two world's fairs
during this time, one to commemorate the 400th
anniversary of Columbus' voyage (as well as an assurance that
Chicago was rising after the 1871 fire) and one of the
centennial of the Louisiana Purchase. While the blues and
minstrel shows already existed, Anglo-Americans were witnessing
the global impact of a new music in ragtime as one element
toward the liberation of Black musical creativity. Quite apart
from Joplin's value as an original force in music, his life
reflected on all of these contemporary phenomena, thus adding to
the importance of bibliographic reference.
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