Recorded: Benjamin Harding (piano), The Gilded Age (Hoyer Media, 2020)
What's included: Complete piano score with all three rags (PDF)
Description: Jimmy's Shimmy. Hard Luck. Modern Times. Three piano works drawing on the vocabulary that Scott Joplin built in the 1890s: syncopated rhythms, left-hand stride patterns, and a particular kind of humor that is always one beat behind where you expect it. From The Gilded Age (2020), recorded by Benjamin Harding.
Recorded: Benjamin Harding (piano), The Gilded Age (Hoyer Media, 2020)
What's included: Complete piano score with all three rags (PDF)
Description: Jimmy's Shimmy. Hard Luck. Modern Times. Three piano works drawing on the vocabulary that Scott Joplin built in the 1890s: syncopated rhythms, left-hand stride patterns, and a particular kind of humor that is always one beat behind where you expect it. From The Gilded Age (2020), recorded by Benjamin Harding.
Recorded by pianist Benjamin Harding in 2019. These were first recorded into MIDI on a Yamaha concert grand and then replayed and recorded live in a nod to the history of the player piano which helped people discover the music of Scott Joplin in the days before audio recordings.
