It was the Grateful Dead, Credence Clearwater Revival, Sly and the Family Stone,the Who, Jefferson Airplane and Janis Joplin.

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Now the master of syncopation, of course, in music was Scott Joplin, African American composer writing a lot around the area of St. Louis in the turn of the twentieth century.

说到使用切分音的大师,我们自然想到斯考特·乔普林,是位多产的美国黑人作曲家,二十世纪初居住在圣路易斯地区

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(JANIS JOPLIN - "BALL AND CHAIN") The music ended on Sunday night or,rather,the early hours of Monday, August eighteenth.

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Many experts also think Scott Joplin's opera "Treemonisha" included incidents of his life with his mother after Giles Joplin left.

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Today we tell about the life and work of one of America's greatest music writers: Scott Joplin, the King of Ragtime.

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Later they were married. But Joplin was not as successful in love as he was in music.

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Here is a perfect example. Scott Joplin and John Stark published "A Breeze From Alabama" in nineteen-oh-two.

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But its opening night did not come until more than fifty years after Joplin's death.

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Joplin also got a permanent job in Sedalia playing the piano in a new nightclub.

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Official population documents suggest Scott Joplin was born in eighteen sixty-seven or eighteen sixty-eight.

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The Scott Joplin Organization in Sedalia,Missouri says Joplin wrote this rag, "The Chrysanthemum,"

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But Florence Joplin wanted her son to learn how to play the piano.

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The piece has a sad sound to it, quite unlike Joplin's earlier work.

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We leave you now with one of Scott Joplin's prettiest rags, "Heliotrope Bouquet."

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He also became famous. But,even today, much about Scott Joplin remains a mystery.

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The agreement was very good for both Scott Joplin and John Stark.

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The job permitted Joplin time to write and play his own work.

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Joplin moved to Saint Louis with a woman named Belle Hayden.

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By about nineteen fifteen, Scott Joplin began suffering badly from syphilis.

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Scott Joplin wrote it more than one hundred years ago.

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Florence and Giles Joplin separated before Scott became a teenager.

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Something even more important happened to Joplin in Sedalia.

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After nineteen-oh-seven Joplin lived mostly in New York City.

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Scott Joplin left the world sixty musical works.

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It was not Joplin's first published music.

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Two years later Joplin married again.

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The whole Joplin family was musical.

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The song changed Joplin's life.

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Havens was later followed onstage by superstars like Jimi Hendrix, the Who,Ravi Shankar,Santana, Crosby,Stills,Nash and Young and Janis Joplin.

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