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it is obvious that these plays lack the refined structure and complex rhythms of Scott Joplin's opuses123 - Scott Joplin (c. 1867 / 68–1917) is an American composer and pianist, author of ragtime, marches, waltzes and operas, nicknamed the “king of ragtime”. . Sometimes some modern historians dare to rise up to defend Berlin, but even these fearless people with a broad outlook shudder at the terminology of one of the first jazz historians, Henry Osgood, who in 1920 called Alexander's "first notable jazz song" 124 - Henry O. Osgood, So This Is Jazz (Boston: Little, Brown, 1926).