The Music of Scott Joplin: 12 of His Ragtime Classics
By Scott Joplin
Arr. Mary K. Sallee
Series: Simply Series
Category: Piano Collection
Format: Book
Instrument: Piano
Level: Easy Piano
Slow waltzes enjoyed a special vogue in Parisian salons of the early twentieth century, leading Debussy – with a twinkle in his eye – to produce his piano waltz “La plus que lente” (“The Slower-than-Slow”). Parisian publisher Durand brought Debussy’s piano waltz, issued in July 1910, to a wider public by publishing it that same year as a supplement to Le Figaro, as well as in arrangements (by others) for violin and piano and for piano, 4-hands