Structure: INTRO AA BB A CC DD A .

An outstanding rag which pioneered the use of bird calls in ragtime.
Among the greatest syncopated masterpieces, the unity of feeling is superb.
The A-section looks ahead to what was going to happen in the Novelty rags.
The C-section is, of course, another way of stating the C and bits of B from the 'Maple Leaf Rag'.
The D-section illustrates the high degree of musicianship which Scott possessed; he took a Midwestern blues device and reshaped it on an ascending circle-of-fifths connected with chromatic runs.

28 CR claims.

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