Ragtime Nightingale by Joseph Lamb. Graceful Ghost by William Bolcom.

Go listen to Graceful Ghost. I’ve been playing ragtime since the 70s and it’s still my favorite.

aww, that was my answer

Bethena by Joplin

Came here to add “Bethena.” One of my favorite Joplin compositions!

I’ve always gotten a kick out of Golliwog’s Cakewalk by Debussy :)

Love Golliwog’s Cakewalk!

Ba dum dayum pa dum Doo da dah! Dum Doo da dah Dum doo da da BUM!

Dum da dum DADA dum da dum da Dum DADA dum da dum da dum da

Ba dum dayum pa dum Doo da dah dah Dum Doo da dah yee Daaaa, Doo da da doo da Doo da da Doo da Ba dum dayum pa dum Doo da dah

Gershwin - Rialto Ripples Eubie Blake - Charleston Rag Bolcom - Graceful Ghost Gary Noland - Grand Rag Brillante

Rialto Ripples is in the RCM grade 10 book, it’s pretty fun

Solace by Scott Joplin

My dad had the sheet music as featured in "The Sting" so of course I play it like that 😆

Yes! Surprised this wasn’t further up

The Easy Winners by Joplin is my favorite, but it isn't exactly unknown. Well, to be fair it is in my area, because ragtime is quite exotic here and mostly limited to Western movies and Lucky Luke.

I love The Easy Winners! It was the piece that got me back into playing piano.

My Joplin favs are the Magnetic Rag (that modulation into the C theme hits me every time) and the Cascades. And let us not forget the slightly less syncopated things that came before it, like Louis Moreau Gottschalk's *Bamboula*.

And Blind Boone's 'rag collections'

Tom Lehrer's "The Vatican Rag?" More seriously, Joplin's "Solace—A Mexican Serenade," and "Gladiolus Rag," along with Jelly Roll Morton's "The Crave."

😍😍😍 THANK you for this one!

The Root Beer Rag-Billy Joel

Marc-Andre Hamelin just put out an album of the complete Bolcom rags and I love them all. My favorites are Rag-Tango and The Serpent’s Kiss.

Gladiolus Rag, also by Joplin

great ending, score extra if you can tell the beginning from sugar cane

Gary Smart is a very modern, avant-garde composer, but also specializes in Ragtime. [Here's a composition of his called Peanut Butter Rag.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B18jqBjlzNQ) Edit: [Tiger Rag by the Original Dixieland Jass Band](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7-sMpj3LWo) should be on this list, as well as [That's a Plenty by Lew Pollack](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrbzgovfV8Q) and [Muskrat Ramble by Kid Ory](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR6_9oPUoTs). A lot of the pieces in here by the bigger named classical composers are more set pieces, in that they're classical with a ragtime flair. Nothing wrong with that, but they're not really following the conventions of a traditional ragtime completely, but are (obviously) all good pieces in their own right, as well.

Partly composed by Scott Joplin and also by Louis Chauvin: Heliotrope Bouquet Favorite Joplin rag: Magnetic Rag.

I will accept regular, non-bonus points if you'll accept Beethoven's Sonata 32.

Boogie Woogie variation!

The third movement of Les biches Suite: Rag-Mazurka.

Joseph Lamb and James Scott are the two best after Joplin Some favorite rags: * Euphonic Sounds (Joplin) * Original Rags (Joplin) * Quality (Scott) * Solace (Joplin) * Ragtime Nightmare (Turpin) * St. Louis Rag (Turpin) * Brass Knuckles (Bolcom / Albreit) * Ragtime Nightingale (Lamb) * Patricia Rag (Lamb) * Pineapple Rag (Joplin) * Heliotrope Bouquet (Joplin) * Piffle Rag (Gladys Yelvington) * Pineapple Rag (Joplin) * Magnetic Rag (Joplin) * The Easy Winners (Joplin) * Eubie's Classical Rag (Eubie Blake) * Gladiolus Rag (Joplin) * A Real Slow Drag (Joplin) * Country Club Rag (Joplin) * Hilarity (Scott) Some favorite adjacent piano pieces (early jazz and Harlem Stride) * Snowy Morning Blues - James P. Johnson * The Crave - Jelly Roll Morton * New Orleans Blues (Morton) * Creepy Feeling - Jelly Roll Morton * Jungle Blues - Jelly Roll Morton * The Baltimore Todolo - Eubie Blake * Kitchen Tom - Eubie Blake * Numb Fumblin' - Fats Waller * Mamanita - Jelly Roll Morton * Jelly Roll Blues - Jelly Roll Morton * Echoes of Spring - Willie "The Lion" Smith * Viper's Drag - Fats Waller * Arkansas Blues - James P. Johnson * Relaxin' - Willie "The Lion" Smith * Sneakaway - Willie "The Lion" Smith * Keep off the Grass - James P. Johnson * Alligator Crawl - Fats Waller William Bolcom is a modern rag composer worth checking out as well The Marcus Roberts album "Alone with Three Giants" deserves a special mention, too Then there's always Boogie-Woogie which also connects up - Jimmy Yancey, Meade 'Lux' Lewis, Pete Johnson, Albert Ammons

[Erik Satie - Ragtime Parade for Piano ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RSFLcT1YMA)

not exactly ragtime, but maybe you'll like stride jazz piano, like fats waller, art tatum, Thelonious monk...

It's technically novelty piano, but check out Zez Confrey if you're unfamiliar. Kitten on the Keys is a masterpiece.

came across a MIDI of this back in the days and to-date it's still one of the only ragtime pieces I made an effort to learn.

Y'know what's crazy is that I found out about this song from some old guy's MIDI website circa 1998. I probably still have the MIDI files I saved from it.

If you havent heard Stravinsky’s Ragtime for 21 instruments, then give it a chance! He also wrote one for solo piano

Gladiolus Rag by Joplin. I love the almost romantic-era lyricism.

The Cascades by Joplin. My fav.

Lamb "Champagne Rag"

Sunflower Slow Drag by “you know who” Pork and Beans by Theron C Bennett

Luckey Roberts?

Joplin’s “Solace: A Mexican Serenade”

James Scott: Paramount Rag, Efficiency Rag, Climax Rag Joseph Lamb: Ethiopia Rag

Claude Bolling’s interpretation of Perfect Rag by Jelly Roll Morton.

i miss Claude Bolling

Weeping Willow by Joplin

Why I miss Tom Brier so much. Guy was an OG YouTube legend. His [Korobeiniki](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-o4o_LaK1k) (aka Tetris theme) improv shows the skill he had that few pianists have anymore.

Love Tom Brier. One day YouTube just asked me to watch some guy play the Mario World outro for reasons I didn’t understand. I don’t play Mario World. Well, suddenly 1-2 hours later, I had just deep dived into Tom Brier’s magic playing.

The best performance of FFIX's Spinach Rag still belongs to [Tom Brier](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYzq0am3B4I). Honestly, it's better the soundtrack recording. Edit: I take that back. [Legend of Zelda End Theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhRBGCS8mlc). As you said, welcome to the rabbit hole (again)!

[black & white rag](https://youtu.be/6SBx9pxSenc?si=RuOydzcfOW0R-QLy) by George Botsford is an absolute banger. Was a well-known TV theme in the 80s in the UK so has some degree of recognition there at least.

The best version is Winifred Atwell's the one that was used for Pot Black's theme tune. Proper honkytonk piano and all! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nXUPHR17FI&list=RD-nXUPHR17FI&start\_radio=1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nXUPHR17FI&list=RD-nXUPHR17FI&start_radio=1)

Milhaud - Scaramouche Jelly Roll Morton - Grandpa's Spells

Searchlight Rag. Did anybody ever play RollerCoaster Tycoon? That is the "Ragtime Style," music, though it is supposed to be played slower than it goes in RCT lol. Also, The Easy Winners is great

Maybe finger breaker of jelly roll Morton

Vipers Drag performed by [Aaron Diehl](https://youtu.be/Kb6oMBor5tk?si=TcqxIoy8Srh7VYeW) Someone mentioned Graceful Ghost. Guilty pleasure with those three ghost rags, the connection to his father on Graceful Ghost takes it up a notch. Performed by [Barron Ryan](https://youtu.be/YufmYPb2zZE?si=np8_yvNKI-TT_r6i)

> Vipers Drag Fats Waller

The Strenuous Life

Billy Mayerl's Marigold

My favorite Scott Joplin rag has always been and will always be "[Wall Street Rag](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P1OF0ADBbs)" but he has many others that I enjoy just as much if not more than the two you name. A more modern ragtime piece that I really dig is [Treno, The City That Never Sleeps](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSsyDGJbjUw) composed by Nobuo Uematsu for the Final Fantasy 9 soundtrack. A while back, it was [sight-read by the incomparable improvisational ragtime pianist Tom Brier](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBjY67PSOPI) in a fun video. Before his career was tragically cut short by a severe car accident a few years ago, he got big on youtube doing sight-readings of popular tunes and adding his trademark flair to them, and also has several albums of his own compositions which I listen to often. If you're into ragtime, it might be a fun rabbit-hole to go down, if only to hear his takes on [other pop culture hits](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7hrGrzVqaHaPngRcsE-gNrwxdVvByiiC)

Notoriety Rag, by Kathryn Widmer. Especially versions played spiritedly. 

What about Henry Lodge and his [Red Pepper](https://youtu.be/zwVkoajyaUI?si=pCM8uHinxqTLKWc9&t=40) and [Temptation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBpx848oYgg) rags?

William Bolcom's Old Adam from Garden of Eden Rags. I always liked Scott Joplin's Cascades too.

[Jellyroll Morton: Tiger Rag](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=anrG3VgOUcs) is one example.

Elite syncopations is quite good

Original Rags by Scott Joplin hits home for me!

My favorite Joplin rag is The Strenuous Life

Listen to any of George Hamilton Greene's rags on xylophone

[Cataract Rag - Robert Hampton](https://youtu.be/JBFxW0ercM4?si=Hz8C-A3sbCrFymJC)

Fig Leaf Rag Pineapple Rag The Easy Winners

I lowkey dig Bolcom’s Rag Infernal. For Joplin, Magnetic Ray has been my favourite of his

"Piano Rag Music" by Stravinsky

Dill Pickles by Charles Johnson

Mark Kuss - Jump Cut Rag Marjorie Merryman - Dog Day Rag Martin Amlin - South End Rag Max Morath - Anchoria Leland Judith Zaimont - Hesitation Rag Richard St. Claire - Toccata Rag

I love "Waiting on the Robert E Lee" by Lewis Muir. [https://youtu.be/cbQ83kADMns?si=GGUR1iNEx0725G5b](https://youtu.be/cbQ83kADMns?si=GGUR1iNEx0725G5b)

Billy Joel’s Root Beer Rag

“The Ragtime Dance” by Joplin is one of my favorites and I don’t see it mentioned here. The Loeb rendition on Spotify is great IMO.

Solace, Fig Leaf, and Easy Winners and Bethena are in my current Joplin rotation

Does Billy Joel’s “Root Beer Rag” count?

I just wrote one! Got inspired by some friends, Joplin, and Bolcom’s Graceful Ghost that many have mentioned. DM me if you’re interested in purchasing the score. Fairly easy https://soundcloud.com/jasonkutz/snow-blown-rag

Solace by Mr. Joplin. So gorgeous.

Gladiolus Rag is fantastic!

12th Street Rag

[Livery Stable Blues](https://youtu.be/U2vHnW6TOSA?si=jwdbhrAbxuquDwfv).

it's not ragtime music but one my favorite blues piano album is Ray Bryant's *Alone with the Blues* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpLhR54OJrw&list=PL0q2VleZJVEmaUhKcZnWMmUKBz6Up_520 And Philip Glass's Wichita Vortex is worth mentioning, I think... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Wtfm2jA6A

That one constantly used in family guy? “Play me off Johnny!”