A pulsating piano solo by a black ... boom-chick chick-boom figures. Joplin piques interest by varying the register (high or low) of the two hands and by mixing chords with single-note banjo ...

Dubbed the ‘King of Ragtime’, Scott ... piano and later pursued music and piano studies at the George R. Smith College. He relocated to St Louis in 1900 and worked closely with the publisher John ...