| Scott Joplin's Score for A Guest of Honor | |
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Origin |
Scott Joplin |
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Type |
Pages of sheet music |
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Effects |
Victim will hear all music from the opera grow in volume in their own head |
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Downsides |
Prolonged use leads to death |
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Activation |
Touch |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 13 |
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Section |
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Aisle |
565-5453 |
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Shelf |
88741-3369-175 |
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Date of Collection |
1921 |
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Origin[]
Scott Joplin (1867 - 1917) was an American composer and pianist. Joplin was dubbed the "King of Ragtime Writers" for his ragtime compositions having written forty four original ragtime pieces. Along with those he composed three operas, two famous ones and one lost to time.
A Guest of Honor was one of few operas that Joplin wrote, which focused on a 1901 White House dinner hosted by then President Theodore Roosevelt for the civil rights leader Booker T. Washington. The opera was politically polarizing, with Roosevelt receiving criticism from his political opponents for entertaining the African-American leader. Regardless, Joplin gathered people to take the Opera on tour.
Collection[]
One night before practice began a stranger broke into the playhouse, stealing the only copy from Joplin's possessions. Until recently the script was considered lost to time. Was taken from Talaat Pasha after his capture and subsequent bronzing.
Effects[]
Touching will play the music from the lost opera loudly in victim's head. Will continue to rise in volume, causing ears to bleed and eventual death.