Solace (A Mexican Serenade) -- main theme
Solo and piano · medium (grade 3, intermediate) · 1 min · two staves -- melody (treble, any C instrument or piano right hand) + habanera bass (piano left hand or bass instrument)
'Solace (A Mexican Serenade)' -- the main theme of Scott Joplin's 1909 habanera-flavored rag, engraved as a two-staff classroom edition in C major. Instrumental, no lyrics.
The rights, in plain language
The underlying composition is in the public domain. Our engraving is our own edition — free to read, print, and perform, with no royalty and no per-performance fee. We host the composition, never a recording.
The composition is in the public domain. This is our own engraved edition of the public-domain score — not a copy of anyone else’s edition, and never a recording (a recording is a separate copyright we do not touch).
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The score
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Every version is our own engraved edition — free to read, print, and perform, with no royalty and no per-performance fee. We host the composition, never a recording.