Here you will find a selection of MIDI files created by myself and others. The files here are mainly ragtime pieces, mostly by Scott Joplin. For some other files I have created, see the Gilbert & Sullivan Archive. All files are in standard MIDI format.
Books about Ragtime
My favorite book about Scott Joplin and ragtime is Edward A. Berlin’s
You can order it from Amazon.com (click the picture above). You can also use the Amazon.com search box below, and select “Books” in the “Search” field.
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Scott Joplin’s Gravestone
St. Michael’s Cemetery, Queens, New York
Thanks to Nancy Cayce for sending me this picture!!!
Number of times this page has been accessed since 4/27/96:9/01/00 Added sheet music for Pine Apple Rag
This file has three tracks. The first two are for left and right piano. The third is a percussion track intended for the foot-stamping indicated in the music. Set your MIDI player to an appropriate sound.
This rag first appeared as a player piano roll about 1914. Curiously, it was never published or even copyrighted until 1971 when a copy of the roll was discovered. This arrangement follows the published score, which eliminates some of the embellishments found on the roll.
Really Good! I had previously attributed this to Julius Lenzburg, but I have since found out this wasn’t his work. This piece appeared on the Internet around 1996, and is a stylized rendition of “Angels We Have Heard on High.”
