Tichenor hails from St. Louis, and ragtime has surrounded her since birth. Her late father, Trebor Tichenor, had already amassed an impressive archive of piano rolls and sheet music over some decades ...

ADRIAN — Sheet music from more than 1,400 popular compositions from the turn of the 20th century has been added to the River Raisin Ragtime Revue's collection. R4's executive director ...

Joplin perfected the piano form known as "classic ragtime ... was the first to sell more than 1 million copies of sheet music as the ragtime rage swept the U.S. from the late 1890s to roughly ...

The story of this Black master of the ragtime genre can seem like one that ... recognize the melody — and over time, at least, the sheet music was a huge seller, Joplin’s pieces were often ...

He combed libraries, studied piano rolls and old sheet music, consulted historical societies, read antique magazines and talked to folks old enough to recall the work of the ragtime greats and the ...

Sedalia, Missouri, will host the International Ragtime Festival next week (May 28-31). The festival celebrates the life of famous Missourian Scott Joplin.

Born in New York in 1889, Arndt taught himself piano as a child ... handed runs established a template for novelty ragtime composers. The sheet music became a perennial best-seller, a staple ...

To the relief of the young audience, they were asked to stomp, clap, dance and snap along with lively ragtime music. The seventh annual Piano Celebration Week introduced a new educational element ...