Please Say You Will (1895) is Scott Joplin’s first published composition. Though the “I’m sorry, please take me back” lyrics (written by Joplin) are bland and one-dimensional, the music points forward to the later Augustan Club Waltz, also in the key of B-flat major. In the song’s chorus, the right hand melody of the piano harmonizes with […]
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