“Maple Leaf Rag” – Scott Joplin, (The Songbook) - Official Video - “Sweet Piano Vibes From The South” Born in 1868 in a musical family of railway laborers in Texarkana, Arkansas, Scott Joplin was an American composer & pianist who wrote 40 original ragtime piano pieces. Scott Joplin considered ragtime to be a form of classical music. The musical atmosphere present in the South, work songs, gospel hymns, spirituals and the combination of the influences of classical music have contributed signific