Scott Joplin was an American African American composer and pianist, one of the most important figures in the development of classical ragtime, for whom he wanted a status similar to that of serious music from Europe and the possibility of admitting extensive compositions such as operas and symphonies.
Psalms, book of the Old Testament composed of sacred songs, or of sacred poems meant to be sung. In the Hebrew Bible, Psalms begins the third and last section of the biblical canon, known as the Writings (Hebrew Ketuvim). The Psalms (from Greek psalmos “song”) are poems and hymns, dating from various
