Abstract
Abstract: The hardly explored piano music of Scott Joplin (ragtime pieces, waltzes, and marches) is replete with subtle harmonic details within a square framework. These include specifically interesting usages of two idioms: (1) tonic chords with an added sixth and (2) chromatic voice leading that gives rise to plenty of rare intervals. Among these, there is special use for [inline-graphic 01], a corollary of the augmented-sixth [inline-graphic 02] before a major [inline-graphic 03], and enharmonic equivalent of ♭VI. Each of these idioms serves as a special kind of pivot chord, in Harmony Club Waltz and A Breeze from Alabama respectively. Awareness to Joplin's harmonic details may help to study his historical and cultural position more precisely.
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