2.it is a symbol of national identity

3.it is a symbol of love and loyalty

2.Mable leaf rag is a jazz song

3.It is a symbol of love and loyalty

• On August 10, 1900, Joplin signed a contract which gave him a one cent per copy royalty, which would be extremely profitable for both him and his estate. Though he died in 1917, "Maple Leaf Rag" was recorded no less than six times in the 1920s. There is also at least one recording extant of Joplin playing the piece himself.

• Maple Leaf Rag" is arguably the most influential ragtime tune, but it wasn't as commercially successful as previously suggested. Joplin's first biographer, Rudy Blesh, claimed the rag sold 75,000 copies in its first six months and early ad copy proclaimed upwards of one million sales. In reality, it sold just 400 copies in its first year and possibly reached half a million sales by 1909, according to Berlin

• This was used on several episodes of The Simpsons. In the 2016 episode "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus," it soundtracks a short silent film in Mr. Burns' variety show.

Scott Joplin in 1912

The "Maple Leaf Rag" is a multi-strain ragtime march with athletic bass lines and offbeat melodies. Each of the four parts features a recurring theme and a striding bass

A June 1916 Piano Roll recording of Scott Joplin for The Aeolian Company.

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There have been many claims about the sales of the "Maple Leaf Rag", for example that 1 million copies of the sheet music were sold in the composer's lifetime, making Scott Joplin the first musician to sell 1 million copies of a piece of instrumental music

3. Generally, the "Maple Leaf Rag" is considered difficult to play;^[12] a pianist must have very good coordination in the left hand to perform it successfully, particularly for the trio, which involves leaps of two octaves. When it was published, it was considered significantly more difficult than the average Tin Pan Alley and early ragtime sheet music common at the time.

2.it is the most well known instrument rag of its time

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