(MUSIC) JOPLIN SCOTT Please Say You Will by Scott Joplin of

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ONLY ONE OTHER COPY KNOWN (MUSIC.) JOPLIN, SCOTT. Please Say You Will by Scott Joplin of the Texas Medley Quartette. Printed sheet music. 3 separated folio leaves. Cover title-page [1], words and music pp 2-5, p [6] blank; approximately 13 x 9-1/2 inches. an exceptional copy. Syracuse, NY, 1895

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the exceedingly rare first printing of scott joplin's first published piece of music, first released on February 25, 1895. Scott Joplin and Otis Saunders were traveling together when they arrived at the Chicago, Fair in 1894. Joplin moved into the Marshall house in Sedalia and within a short time became Arthur Marshall's tutor. Marshall himself would go on to become a major Ragtime player and composer. It was around this time the Texas Medley Quartette was formed. The band toured as far east as Syracuse in upstate New York. There, two businessmen of the city took an interest in Joplin and published several songs by the group, the first of which was "Please Say You Will," copy-written February 20, 1895 (published by M. L. Mantell, a local jeweler) and crediting Joplin as being a member of "The Texas Medley Quartette." OCLC locates only a single copy at the New York State Library. No copy has appeared at auction in 30 years of records.