Scott Joplin: Compositions

"Africa": Ragtime Opera (known only through 1930 advertisement of performance)
Antoinette: March and Two-Step (1906)
Augustan Club Waltz (1901)
Bethena: A Concert Waltz (1905)
Binks' Waltz (1905)
A Breeze from Alabama: A Ragtime Two-Step (1902)
The Cascades: A Rag (1904)
The Chrysanthemum: An Afro-American Intermezzo (1904)
Cleopha: March and Two-Step (1902)
Combination March (1896)
Country Club: A Ragtime Two-Step (1909)
The (Great) Crush Collision March (1896)
The Easy Winners: A Ragtime Two-Step (1901)
Elite Syncopations (1902)
The Entertainer: A Ragtime Two-Step (1902)
Eugenia (1906)
Euphonic Sounds: A Syncopated Novelty (1909)
The Favorite: a Ragtime Two-Step (1904)
Felicity Rag (1911) [collaboration with Scott Hayden]
Fig Leaf Rag: A High Class Rag (1908)
For the Sake of All: Song (unpub.)
Frolic of the Bears (1915) ["Treemonisha" excerpt]
Gladiolus Rag (1907)
Good-bye Old Gal, Good-bye (1906) [arranged by Scott Joplin]
"A Guest of Honor": A Ragtime Opera (1903) [unpublished]
Harmony Club Waltz (1896)
Heliotrope Bouquet: A Slow Drag Two-Step (1907) [collaboration with 
Louis Chauvin]
I am Thinking of My Pickaninny Days (1902)
If: Musical Comedy (1916, incomplete at death)
King Porter Stomp (1906) [collaboration with Jelly Roll Morton and Porter King]
Kismet Rag (1913) [collaboration with Scott Hayden]
Leola: Two-Step (1905)
Lily Queen: A Ragtime Two-Step (1907) [collaboration with Arthur Marshall]
Little Black Baby (1903) [words by Louise Armstrong Bristol]
Lovin' Babe (1911) [attributed to Scott Joplin, 1974]
Magnetic Rag (1914)
Magnetic Rag: Song (unpublished)
Maple Leaf Rag (1899)
Maple Leaf Rag: Song (1904) [words by Sydney Brown]
March Majestic (1902)
Mint Leaf Rag (unpublished)
Morning Glories: Song (unpublished)
Nonpareil: A Rag and Two-Step (1907)
Original Rags (1899) [arranged by Charles N. Daniels]
Palm Leaf Rag: A Slow Drag (1903)
Paragon Rag (1909)
Peacherine Rag (1901)
A Picture of Her Face (1895) [words by Scott Joplin]
Pine Apple Rag (1908)
Pine Apple Rag: Song (1910) [words by Joe Snyder]
Pleasant Moments: Ragtime Waltz (1909)
Please Say You Will: Song and Chorus (1895) [words by Scott Joplin]
Prelude to Act 3 ["Treemonisha" excerpt] (1911)
Pretty Pansy Rag (unpublished)
The Ragtime Dance: A Stop-Time Two-Step (1906)
The Ragtime Dance: Song (1902) [words by Scott Joplin]
A Real Slow Drag ["Treemonisha" excerpt] (1913)
Recitative Rag (unpublished)
Reflection Rag: Syncopated Musings (1917)
Rosebud: Two-Step (1907)
Rose Leaf Rag: A Ragtime Two-Step (1907)
Sarah Dear (1905) [words by Henry Jackson]
The School of Ragtime: 6 Exercises for Piano (1908)
Scott Joplin's New Rag (1912)
Searchlight Rag: A Syncopated March and Two-Step (1907)
Sensation: A Rag by Joseph F. Lamb [arranged by Scott Joplin] (1908)
Silver Swan Rag (1971) [attributed to Joplin; from piano roll]
Snoring Sampson: A Ragtime Song by Harry La Mertha (1907) [arranged 
by Scott Joplin]
Solace: A Mexican Serenade (1909)
Something Doing: Cake Walk March (1903) [collaboration with Scott Hayden]
Stoptime Rag (1910)
The Strenuous Life: A Ragtime Two-Step (1902)
Sugar Cane: A Ragtime Classic Two-Step (1908)
Sunflower Slow drag: A Ragtime Two-Step (1901)
Swipesy: Cake Walk (1900) [collaboration with Arthur Marshall]
The Sycamore: A Concert Rag (1904)
Symphony No. 1 (1916, incomplete at death)
"Treemonisha": Opera in Three Acts (1911)
Wall Street Rag (1909)
Weeping Willow: Ragtime Two-Step (1903)
When Your Hair is Like the Snow (1907) [words by Owen Spendthrift]

As listed in The Collected Works of Scott Joplin (Vera Brodsky 
Lawrence, ed. 2 vols. New York: New York Public Library, 1971.) and 
Scott Joplin: A Guide to Research (Nancy R. Ping-Robbins, ed. Garland 
Reference Library of the Humanities vol. 1139. New York City: 1998.).


Compositions in Collections:

The Collected Works of Scott Joplin. Ed. Vera Brodsky Lawrence. Vol. 
1: Piano Works; Vol. II: Works for Voice. Introduction by Rudi Blesh. 
New York: New York Public Library, 1971.
      [Complete 1911 score of "Treemonisha" in 2nd volume.]

The Complete Works of Scott Joplin. Vol. 1: Piano; Vol. II: Works for 
Voice. Ed. Vera Brodsky Lawrence; ed. consultant Richard Jackson. 2nd 
edition. New York: New York Public Library, 1981.
      [Addition of 3 rags not allowed to be published in 1st edition.]

Dick Wellstood: Jazz Piano Solos. Transcribed and edited, Riccardo 
Scivales. San Diego: Neil A. Kjos Music Company, 1994.
      [Includes The Entertainer.]

Morath, Max, ed. Giants of Ragtime. New York: Edward B. Marks, 1971.

Morath, Max, ed. One Hundred Ragtime Classics. Denver: Donn Printing, 1963.

Morath, Max, ed. Ragtime Guide: A Collection of Ragtime Songs and 
Piano Solos. 2nd ed. New York: Hollis, 1964.

Play Them Rags: A Piano Album of Authentic Rag-Time Solos. New York: 
Mills Music, 1961.

Rag Classix. New York: Warner Brothers, 1973.

Ragtime Piano: A Collection of Standard Rags for Piano Solo. New 
York: Belwin-Mills, 1963.

Scott Joplin: Complete Rags for Piano. Introduction by Max Morath. 
New York: G. Schirmer, 1998.

Scott Joplin's Greatest Hits. Arranged, Carol Klose. Milwaukee: Hal 
Leonard Publishers, 1992.

Shealy, Alexander, ed. World's Favorite Music and Songs: Ragtime 
Piano. New Jersey: Ashley Publications, 1973.

Tichenor, Trebor Jay, ed. Ragtime Rarities: Complete Original Music 
for Sixty-three Piano Rags. New York: Dover, 1975.

"Treemonisha": Vocal Selections. Ed. Vera Brodsky Lawrence. Chappell 
Music Co., 1975.

"Treemonisha." Complete Score. Scott Joplin, 1911. Reprint, Mineola, 
NY: Dover Music, 2001.



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