The following is a complete list of musical compositions by Scott Joplin

Scott Joplin

Scott Joplin was an American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions, and was later dubbed "The King of Ragtime". During his brief career, Joplin wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas...

(ca. 1867 - April 1, 1917).

There are many inconsistencies between the titles of compositions, their subtitles and their respective cover titles, which was seen by one writer as reflecting "an editorial casualness", and indicating a genre in which many different dance-steps could be performed interchangeably. In addition, there are also inconsistencies between the publishing date, and the date of copyright registration

Copyright registration

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. In some instances, copyright notices were not registered. In all cases, musical compositions are listed by date of publication, using their cover titles and subtitles.

Title	Form	Year	Comments
Please Say You Will	Song	1895	Lyrics by Scott Joplin
	Song	1895	Lyrics by Scott Joplin
Great Crush Collision March	March	1896
Combination March	March	1896
Harmony Club Waltz	Waltz	1896
Original Rags Original Rags "Original Rags" was an early ragtime medley for piano.It was the first of Scott Joplin's rags to appear in print, in early 1899, preceding his "Maple Leaf Rag" by half a year.- Publication history :...	Rag	1899	Arranged by Charles N. Daniels
Maple Leaf Rag Maple Leaf Rag The "Maple Leaf Rag" is an early ragtime musical composition for piano composed by Scott Joplin. It was one of Joplin's early works, and is one of the most famous of all ragtime pieces, and became the model for ragtime compositions by subsequent composers. As a result Joplin was called the "King...	Rag	1899
Swipesy Cakewalk Swipesy Cakewalk The "Swipesy Cakewalk" is a ragtime composition written in 1900 by a musical duo consisting of the notable ragtime master Scott Joplin and the young composer Arthur Marshall. "Swipsey" uses the simple syncopations of a cakewalk - the first beat being a sixteenth, eighth, sixteenth note division,...	Cakewalk	1900	With Arthur Marshall Arthur Marshall (ragtime composer) Arthur Marshall was an African-American composer and performer of ragtime music.Marshall was born on a farm in Saline County, Missouri, but a few years later his family moved to Sedalia, Missouri...
Peacherine Rag	Rag	1901
Sunflower Slow Drag Sunflower Slow Drag "Sunflower Slow Drag" is a ragtime composition by Scott Joplin and Scott Hayden. It is about four minutes long and has been described as "full of gaiety and sunshine".-Musical structure:...	Rag Time Two Step	1901	With Scott Hayden Scott Hayden Scott Hayden was an African-American composer of ragtime music.Born in Sedalia, Missouri, he was the son of Marion and Julia Hayden...
Augustan Club Waltz	Waltz	1901
I Am Thinking Of My Pickaninny Pickaninny Pickaninny is a term in English which refers to children of black descent or a racial caricature thereof. It is a pidgin word form, which may be derived from the Portuguese pequenino . In the Creole English of Surinam the word for a child is pikin ningre...  Days	Song	1901	Lyrics by Henry Jackson
	Rag Time Two Step	1901
Cleopha	March and Two Step	1902
	March and Two Step	1902
Elite Syncopations	Rag	1902
	Rag Time Two Step	1902
March Majestic	March	1902
	Rag Time Two Step	1902
	Song	1902	Lyrics by Scott Joplin
Something Doing	Cakewalk March	1903	With Scott Hayden
Weeping Willow Weeping Willow (rag) "Weeping Willow" is a 1903 classic piano ragtime composition by Scott Joplin.One of Joplin's simpler and less famous ragtime scores, written during a transitional period in Joplin's life...	Rag Time Two Step	1903
Little Black Baby	Song	1903	Lyrics by Louise Armstrong Bristol
Palm Leaf Rag	Slow Drag	1903
	Rag Time Opera	1903	Lost
Maple Leaf Rag	Song	1904	Lyrics by Sydney Brown
	Concert Rag	1904
	Rag Time Two Step	1904
	Rag	1904
	Afro-intermezzo	1904
Bethena Bethena "Bethena, A Concert Waltz" is a composition by Scott Joplin. It was the first Joplin work since his wife Freddie's death on September 10, 1904 of pneumonia, ten weeks after their wedding. At the time the composer had significant financial problems; the work did not sell successfully at the time of...	Concert Waltz	1905
Binks' Waltz	Waltz	1905
Sarah Dear	Song	1905	Lyrics by Henry Jackson
	Two Step	1905
Leola	Two Step	1905
Eugenia		1906
	Stop Time Two Step	1906
Antoinette	March and Two Step	1906
Nonpareil (None To Equal)		1907
When Your Hair Is Like The Snow	Song	1907	Lyrics by Owen Spendthrift
Gladiolus Rag	Rag	1907
Searchlight Rag Searchlight Rag -Publication history:The copyright was registered August 12, 1907 to Joseph W. Stern and Company of New York.Like most Joplin compositions, Searchlight Rag was still under copyright during the ragtime revival of the 1970s, and the holder of copyrights for this piece, Fig Leaf Rag and Rose Leaf Rag...	Syncopated March and Two Step	1907	|-	Lily Queen	Rag Time Two Step	1907	With Arthur Marshall
Rose Leaf Rag	Rag Time Two Step	1907
Heliotrope Bouquet	Slow Drag Two Step	1907	With Louis Chauvin Louis Chauvin Louis Chauvin was an American ragtime musician.Born in St. Louis, Missouri of a Mexican Spanish-Indian father and an African American mother, he was widely considered the finest pianist in the St. Louis area at the turn of the century...
Fig Leaf Rag	Rag	1908
Wall Street Rag	Rag	1908
Sugar Cane	Rag Time Classic Two Step	1908
Sensation	Rag	1908	By Joseph F. Lamb Joseph Lamb Joseph Francis Lamb was a noted American composer of ragtime music. Lamb, of Irish descent, was the only non-African American of the "Big Three" composers of classical ragtime, the other two being Scott Joplin and James Scott.-Life and Career:Lamb was born in Montclair, New Jersey... ; arranged by Scott Joplin
Pine Apple Rag	Rag	1908
School Of Rag Time - 6 Exercises For Piano	Exercises	1908
Pleasant Moments	Rag Time Waltz	1909
Solace	Mexican Serenade	1909
Country Club	Rag Time Two Step	1909
Euphonic Sounds	Syncopated Novelty	1909
Paragon Rag	Syncopated Novelty	1909
Stop Time Rag	Rag	1910
Pine Apple Rag	Song	1910	Lyrics by Joe Snyder
Treemonisha Treemonisha Treemonisha is an opera composed by the famed African-American ragtime composer Scott Joplin. Though it encompasses a wide range of musical styles other than ragtime, and Joplin did not refer to it as such, it is sometimes incorrectly referred to as a "ragtime opera"...	Opera	1911
Felicity Rag	Rag	1911	With Scott Hayden
Scott Joplin's New Rag	Rag	1912
Kismet Rag	Rag	1913	With Scott Hayden
	Slow Drag	1913	Excerpt from Treemonisha Treemonisha Treemonisha is an opera composed by the famed African-American ragtime composer Scott Joplin. Though it encompasses a wide range of musical styles other than ragtime, and Joplin did not refer to it as such, it is sometimes incorrectly referred to as a "ragtime opera"...
Silver Swan Rag Silver Swan Rag "Silver Swan Rag" by Scott Joplin is a ragtime composition for piano. It is the only known Joplin composition to be released on piano roll instead of in musical notation.-Form:The overall structure of the piece is:...	Rag	1914	Originally published only on piano rollsheet music. Sheet music published in 1971
Magnetic Rag Magnetic Rag "Magnetic Rag" is a ragtime composition for piano by Scott Joplin. It is significant for being the last rag which Joplin published in his lifetime, three years before his death in 1917...	Rag	1914
Pretty Pansy Rag	Rag	1915?	Incomplete, unpublished, and lost
Recitative Rag	Rag	1915?	Incomplete, unpublished, and lost
For The Sake Of All	Song	1915?	Incomplete, unpublished, and lost
Morning Glory		1915?	Incomplete, unpublished, and lost
Reflection Rag (Syncopated Musings)	Rag	1917	Published posthumously by Stark, likely from much older unpublished manuscripts