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This document is a musical score for "Bethena: A Concert Waltz" composed by Scott Joplin. The summary contains 3 sentences: The score contains the musical notation for Scott Joplin's piece "Bethena: A Concert Waltz", including tempo markings, notes, dynamics, and other performance instructions across 36 lines of music. As a waltz, the piece is in 3/4 time and features the melodic and rhythmic elements characteristic of Joplin's ragtime compositions. The notation provides all the information needed for musicians to perform this work written by the renowned African American composer Scott Joplin.

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Benjamin Button

This document is a musical score for "Bethena: A Concert Waltz" composed by Scott Joplin. The summary contains 3 sentences: The score contains the musical notation for Scott Joplin's piece "Bethena: A Concert Waltz", including tempo markings, notes, dynamics, and other performance instructions across 36 lines of music. As a waltz, the piece is in 3/4 time and features the melodic and rhythmic elements characteristic of Joplin's ragtime compositions. The notation provides all the information needed for musicians to perform this work written by the renowned African American composer Scott Joplin.

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12 (11 Oct 2004) 1


Bethena
A Concert Waltz

Scott Joplin (1868-1905)


Valse Tempo
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TEMA
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0.12 (11 Oct 2004) 5

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128

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žš ˜ žš ˜ žš ˜ žš ˜
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2.

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a tempo

: : 2 /
ten.

= 3 = 3 >
ten. ten. ten. ten.

= = = :
135

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f f f f ff
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ten. ten.

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‚ ‚ ‚ ‚ ‚ ‚ ‚ > ‚ >
/ FINALE > >= > >
 >= : > > > >= : > > > >= > >> == ::
141

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2 =: =
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> =:
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mf
> > > > >
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žš ˜ žš ˜ žš ˜ žš ˜ žš ˜
/ ‚> ‚> ‚ ‚ ‚ ‚ ‚
>
‚‚ ‚
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== :: > > > > >= :> > >
>= > >>
146

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2 /= >
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> > =: > > > >
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žš ˜ žš ˜ žš ˜ žš ˜ žš ˜ žš ˜
‚> ‚> L ‚
Andante
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rit. poco a poco
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152

 > ( (
2 =:
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L
>
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> > > =: >
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žš ˜ žš ˜ žš ˜ žš ˜
‚ ‚ > > ‚
Tempo ‚primo
> >: > > > ‚ ‚
FINE

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 > > > > > > ‚ ‚
L
== ::
158

( ( = 3 ===
2 > > 3> > f
== ::
f
> > > > => 3
L
== ::
Ž / =: > ( ( =:
f f f
== :: >>
=: > 3= =:
3= =:

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