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Original Rags

Scott Joplin 1868–1917

Advanced · 7/10G major2/4≈ 6 min 15 s
Download the PDF3 pages · 187 KB Import into NoctaveMusicXML · 10 KB · .mxl

On your Android tablet or phone, tap the .mxl file once downloaded (or share it to Noctave): the app opens on its import screen, with the piece already chosen. Three imports are free, unlimited with Noctave Plus. Step by step: Add your own pieces.

Outside the catalogue, imported in one gesture

This piece is not in the Noctave catalogue: no level of the journey, no notes about it. But its score file (MusicXML) imports in one gesture, and Noctave then plays it as falling notes, with the score, like your own pieces.

We converted it ourselves from the Mutopia Project score, then checked it note by note against the source: 2965 notes, no unexplained difference. Noctave lays out the PDF from the same file.

These files are in the public domain, like the Mutopia Project edition they come from: you may copy, print, share and change them without any condition.

Both files carry this notice themselves: in the footer of the PDF and in the “rights” field of the MusicXML.

The facts

Composer
Scott Joplin (1868–1917)
Title
Original Rags
Key
G major
Time signature
2/4
Estimated difficulty
7/10 (advanced) — measured on the score by the difficulty tool of Noctave
Estimated length
≈ 6 min 15 s, at an estimated tempo, repeats included
Licence of the files
public domain
Composition
public domain
Check
2965 notes checked one by one against the source, no unexplained difference

The original page on the Mutopia Project

Play it in Noctave

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