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by Ted Tjaden
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- Update #32: What's New
as of January 2022
- Update #31: What's New as
of February 24, 2021
- Update #30: What's New as
of February 14, 2021
- Update #29: What's New as
of February 1, 2021
- Update #28: What's New as
of January 28, 2021
- Update #27: What's New as
of January 1, 2021
- Update #26: What's New as
of December 2018
- Update
#25: What's New as of February 2017
- Update
#24: What's New as of October 2016
- Update
#23: What's New as of June 17, 2015
- Update
#22: What's New as of May and June
2015
- Update
#21: What's New as of April 2014
- Update #20: What's New as
of October 20, 2013
- Update #19: What's New
as of September 19, 2013
- Update #18: What's New
as of August 1, 2013
- Update #17: What's New
as of May 23, 2013
- Update #16: What's New
as of September 10, 2012
- Update #15: What's New
as of December 28, 2008
- Update #14: What's New
as of September 14, 2008
- Update #13: What's New
as of June 14, 2008
- Update #12: What's New
as of March 21, 2008
- Update #11: What's New
as of November 13, 2007
- Update #10: What's New
as of November 6, 2007
- Update #9: What's New as
of September 22, 2007
- Update #8: What's New as
of May 27, 2007
- Update #7: What's New as
of April 8, 2007
- Update #6: What's New as
of December 29, 2006
- Update #5: What's New as
of December 25, 2006
- Update #4: What's New as
of November 26, 2006
- Update #3: What's New as
of October 18, 2006
- Update #2: What's New as
of October 1, 2006
- Update #1: What's New as of
June 29, 2006
Update
#32: What's New as of January 2022 [top]
In early January 2022, I checked all links
on every page on the site and fixed any
broken links and made minor corrections, as
needed. The major broken links were from
Duke University and the University of
Colorado who appeared in the last year to
have converted their URLs to sheet music to
new stable or permanent URLs. Going forward,
most links to sheet music at various
libraries are now stable or permanent URLs;
as such, the risk of broken links in the
future should be much less.
Female Composers of Ragtime
I added links to the sheet music for
the following compositions composed
by women in my essay Female
Composers of Ragtime:
- A
Classy Rag. Ethel Stuart
Philips (arranged by Clarence Woods).
Fort Worth, TX: Ethel Stuart Phillips,
1915.
Food and Ragtime
I added links to the sheet music for
the following food-related ragtime
compositions in my essay Food and
Ragtime:
- Gumbo
Trot.
Broekhoven, F. & C. Rittiner
(arranged by E. Grouzet). New
Orleans: The Orchestra, 1914.
The
Interplay Between Classical Music,
Ragtime, and Jazz
I added links to the sheet music
to the following compositions that
"rag the classics" in my essay The
Interplay Between Classical Music,
Ragtime, and Jazz:
I
also added a brief section on Zez
Confrey and included links to or
mention of the following compositions by him
that rag (or "jazz") classical music
compositions or themes:
- Three
Little Oddities
(Impromptu, Romanza, Novelette) (1923)
- Humorestless
(1925)
- Flower Song (1925)
- Spring Song (1925)
- Melody in F (1925)
- Traumerei (1925)
- Fantasy – Classical (1926)
- Concert Etude in F Sharp Minor
(1929)
In
addition, I added a
brief entry for William
Levi Dawson's Negro
Folk Symphony (1934).
Ragtime
at the Zoo: Animal Rags
I updated the lists of animal-themed
ragtime sheet in my essay Ragtime at
the Zoo: Animal Rags by adding
links to the sheet music for the
following compositions:
- Ostrich
Walk. Nick La
Rocca & Larry Shields. New
York: Leo Feist, 1917.
Ragtime
in Music in Canada
I added links
to the following sheet music in my essay
on Ragtime
Music in Canada:
Ragtime
in Music in Québec
I
added links to or mention of the following
sheet music in my essay on Ragtime Music in
Québec (as well as adding these links
or mentions to my essay on Ragtime Music in
Canada) (no link in the listing below
means that I have not yet been able to
source an online version of the piece):
- Hyam, BL. It
is Love (Waltz song).
Montréal, QC: Delmar Music, 1909.
- Murchison & Hodge. Every
Adam Has an Eve: To Blame for His
Faults. Montréal, QC: Delmar
Music, 1909.
- Murchison & Hodge. I’m
Feelin' Blue. Montréal,
QC: Delmar Music, 1909.
- Murchison & Hodge. Moonlight
Dear: Indian Intermezzo Song.
Montréal, QC: Delmar Music, 1909.
- Murchison & Hodge. Only
Baby Fingers.
Montréal, QC: Delmar Music, 1909
In
addition to the foregoing Québec-related
ragtime era compositions, I added a fairly extensive
listing of 53 compositions by William
Eckstein (30 of which have the sheet
music available), which now includes the
following:
- Alouettes,
Alouettes, Alouettes
(song). Willie Eckstein. Montréal,
QC: Billy Eckstein, 1955.
- Beautiful
Thoughts: A Reverie.
Billy Eckstein. Montréal,
QC: Cowan & Eckstein Pub
Co, 1916.
- Bonsoir chérie!
Willie
Eckstein (with Pat Di Stasio). Montréal,
QC: Les éditions du
Passe-Temps, Inc., 1951.
- Cheers
for the CPC. Billy
Eckstein. Montréal,
QC: Billy Eckstein, 1942.
- Churchill
and Roosevelt. Billy
Eckstein. Montréal,
QC: Billy Eckstein, 1942.
- Dance to a Lovely Melody.
Willie Eckstein (paroles
fran?aises de J.L. Thériault). Toronto:
Gordon V. Thompson, 1935.
- Delirious Rag: One Step.
Willie Eckstein &
Harry Thomas. 1917.
- Down in the Meadows Where
the Daisies Grow. Willie
Eckstein (words by AC Guerin). Montréal,
QC: Delmar Music, 1910.
- Egypt: Song Fox Trot.
Willie Eckstein
(words by Frederick Whelan). Montréal,
QC: W. Eckstein, 1920.
- General
Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ode to Ike).
Billy Eckstein.
Montréal,
QC: Billy Eckstein, 1950.
- Good-bye
Soldier Boy
Willie Eckstein & Harry Thomas.(words
by Walter Bruce). Montréal,
QC: Delmar Co, 1917.
- Good-Bye
Sunshine, Hello Moon! Willie
Eckstein & Gene Buck. New
York: TB Harms & Francis, Day &
Hunter, 1919.
- If You But Knew (Si tu
savais). William Eckstein
& Henry Deyglun
- In
Sunny Summertime. Willie
Eckstein (words by
T.H. Yull). Montréal,
QC: The International Music Co,
1911.
- I
Just Can't Help Lovin' 'em All:
One Step.
Willie Eckstein. Montréal,
QC: Johnny Eckstein, 1920.
- I'm Going Back to My Home
Sweet Home. Willie Eckstein
(1924).
- I'll
Always Be Good to You, Mother.
Willie Eckstein
(paroles fran?aises de Roméo
Beaudry). Montréal, QC:
Radio Music Publishing, 1926.
- Johnny
Canuck's 'Over There'.
Billy Eckstein. Montréal: La Revue
Musicale Enrg., n.d.
- Just a Memory of You.
Billie Eckstein (paroles
fran?aises de Arthur La Pierre). New
York: Leo Feist, 1922.
- Lest You Forget.
William Eckstein (lyrics by Sam Howard).
Montreal: Sam Howard Music Pub. Co.,
1923.
- Lonesome Rose. Willie
Eckstein & Sam Howard (lyrics)
(composed by Vera Guiloff). Montréal,
QC: Sam Howard, 1923.
- The Lost Melody (song).
Willie Eckstein (with Allan
McIver). Montréal, QC:
Elldee Pub. Co., 1932.
- Make
it Final Victory
(song). Billy
Eckstein, Billy (arranged by Len.
Rubin). Montréal, QC:
Billy Eckstein, 1945.
- Montreal,
Montreal, Montreal.
Billy
Eckstein. Montréal, QC:
Billy Eckstein, 1951.
- Music
(Makes the World Go Around).
William Eckstein (with Bill Munro
and Sam Howard). Montréal,
QC: Sam Howard Music Pub. Co.,
1923.
- Musical Massacre.
William Eckstein (1923)
- My Heart Wants Love and You.
Willie Eckstein (words
by John Anderson). Toronto:
Hearst Music, 1923.
- Oriental Fan-Ta-Si.
Billie
Eckstein. New York:
T.B. Harms, 1920.
- Our
Hats Off to Canada. Billie
Eckstein (paroles fran?aises de Roméo
Beaudry). Toronto: Gordon V.
Thompson, 1942.
- Parade
of the Spirits. William
Eckstein. Montréal, QC:
William Eckstein, 1930.
- Perpetual Rag. Willie
Eckstein & Harry Thomas. 1917.
- Queen
of Canada (song).
Billie Eckstein (1959).
- Romance of Love: Waltz Song.
Willie Eckstein. Montréal,
QC: W. Eckstein, 1921.
- Roseland: Fox Trot Song.
Willie Eckstein (lyrics by Fred
Groves). Montréal, QC:
W. Eckstein, 1921.
- The
Royal Highlanders: March and Two
Step. Willie Eckstein.
Montréal, QC: J.W. Shaw & Co., 1910.
- S'Nice.
Willie Eckstein & Sam Howard.
Montréal, QC: Sam Howard Music Pub Co,
1923.
- Some
Rag: A Real Live One.
Willie Eckstein. Montréal, QC: Delmar
Music, 1910.
- The
Song That Leads to Victory.
Billy Eckstein. Montreal,
QC: W. Eckstein, 1945.
- Stop! Look! Listen! Novelty
Fox-trot. Willie
Eckstein (with Jack Millar). Montréal,
QC: Popular Music Publishers, 1929.
- Sunshine
Trail (song). Willie
Eckstein. Montréal, QC: William
Eckstein, 1920.
- Tessa from Odessa.
Willie Eckstein. Lachute,
QC: Parnasse musical, 1944.
- Thru
the Night. Billy Eckstein (lyrics)
& James Bruce (music). Montréal:
Billy Eckstein & James Bruce,
1947.
- To
the King and Queen. William
Eckstein (with Harold Moon). New
York: Mills Music Inc., 1939.
- Trail
O'Dreams. Willie Eckstein
(lyrics). Music by Armand Meerte. Montréal,
QC: W Eckstein, 1921.
- Uptown 6303: Novelty
Fox-Trot. Willy
Eckstein (lyrics by Larry Larrivée). Montréal,
QC: Standard Cab Company, 1929.
- The
“V” Song. Billie Eckstein.
Montréal, QC: Billy Eckstein,
1941.
- Valse
de Luxe. Willie Eckstein.
Montréal, QC: Delmar Music, 1910.
- Valse Liane.
William Eckstein New York: T.B. Harms,
1920.
- Where the Niagara Flows.
Willam Eckstein (1933).
- Won't
You Meet Me at Murray's: Fox-Trot
(song). Willie
Eckstein. Montréal, QC:
Murray's Lunch Ltd, 1929.
- You
Are My All in All
(song). Willie
Eckstein, Harry Thomas & Walter
Bruce. Montréal, QC: Delmar
Co, 1917.
- You've Got to Hand it to Me.
William Eckstein & Sam Howard
(lyrics) (music by Marcel Fortier).
Montreal: Sam Howard, 1922.
- You'll
Love Your Sani-Bilt. William
Eckstein. Montréal, QC:
Snyders Limited, 1929.
In addition to the
foregoing compositions, the Willie
Eckstein Fonds (P767) from the McCord
Museum in Montréal, QC, contain in P767/B3
Musical Works (1938-1960)
typewritten or handwritten lyrics to the
following songs by Eckstein (but I have
been unable to verify if these songs were
ever put to music and transcribed or
published as sheet music for sale – it
seems unlikely that it has) (note:
the links below are to a single page
containing the lyrics as an example; in the
original fond, there are often
multiple versions of the lyrics, some
containing edits or handwritten changes –
consult the
original fond to see all examples):
A
major source for the sheet music to many of
the foregoing Eckstein compositions was the
Willie
Eckstein Fonds (P767) at McCord Museum
in Montreal.
For those Eckstein
compositions above without links, my main
source was Library
and Archives where the sheet music
is available in print in many instances
but not accessible at this time due to the
COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
Rather than adding the foregoing Eckstein
compositions to my essay Ragtime
Music in Canada, I have instead made
links to the foregoing compositions in the
essay
Ragtime Music in Québec.
Ragtime
Waltzes
I added
links to the sheet music for the
following compositions in my
essay on Ragtime
Waltzes:
Update #31: What's New as of February 24,
2021 [top]
Axel Christensen: The Czar of Ragtime and
His Ragtime Review
I updated Chapter 3 to my essay Axel
Christensen: The Czar of Ragtime and His Ragtime
Review with the following pieces:
Note: I also added the link to Teasing
the Klassics to the entry for Axel
Christensen in my essay The
Interplay Between Classical Music, Ragtime,
and Jazz, since in that piece
Christensen does in fact "rag" the following
classics: Franz Liszt's
Liebestraum,
Anton Rubinstein's
Melody in F,
and “My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice”
from Camille
Saint-Sa?ns's Samson and
Delilah.
Cakewalks
in the Ragtime Era
I added the following
piece to my essay Cakewalks
in the Ragtime Era:
Food and Ragtime
I added links to the sheet music for
the following food-related ragtime
compositions in my essay Food and Ragtime:
Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags
I updated the lists of animal-themed
ragtime sheet in my essay Ragtime at the
Zoo: Animal Rags by adding
links to the sheet music for the
following compositions:
Ragtime
Waltzes
I added links to the sheet music for
the following ragtime era waltzes in
Ragtime Waltzes:
- Blake,
Charlotte. The Last
Kiss: Waltzes.
New York: Jerome H Remick, 1917.
- Cohen,
Joseph. Love
Dreams: Syncopated Waltz.
Indianapolis: Warner C Williams,
1915.
- Hunter,
Charles. Seraphine
Waltzes
(Stark, 1905).
- Johnson,
Charles. Sweet
Memories Waltz.
Chicago: Forster Music, 1918.
- Kirwin,
Maurice. Evening
Star: Valse Caprice.
St. Louis, MO: Camman &
Kirwin, 1899.
- Kirwin,
Maurice. Light of
Hope: Waltz.
St. Louis, MO: Kirwin Music Co.,
1910.
- Kirwin,
Maurice. Love's
Pleading: Waltz.
St. Louis, MO: Kirwin Music Co.,
1899
- Klickmann,
Henri. True
Love: Syncopated Waltz.
Chicago: Frank K Root, 1913.
- Stark, EJ.
Elaine:
Syncopated Waltz.
New York: Jos W Stern, 1913.
- Williams,
Warner. Il
Trovatore: Syncopated
Waltz.
Indianapolis: Warner C Williams,
1912.
What's New as of February 14,
2021 [top]
Female Composers of Ragtime
I reviewed every entry in my essay Female
Composers of Ragtime and fixed broken
links and added links to the sheet music of
over 60 compositions written by women during
the ragtime era, listed below by composer
surname (A to Z).
This has resulted in that essay containing entries for 877 rags or
ragtime-era compositions by women, with
close to two-thirds of these compositions
being available online for free (545
compositions) or for purchase (30
compositions) and close to one-third not
being online (302 compositions, with
most of those having no known source).
Newly added rags by female composers (surname
A-F)
For the following composer, I added references
to the following compositions from a circa
1930 Mills Music publication, Pauline
Albert Folio of Modern Piano Solos, with
the sheet music appearing to be available
separately for purchase at Piano Rare Scores:
- Alpert, Pauline. Dream of a Doll
- Alpert, Pauline. Ivory Tips
- Alpert, Pauline. March of the
Blues
- Alpert, Pauline. The Merry Minnow
- Alpert, Pauline. Mindin' the Baby
- Alpert, Pauline. Night of Romance
- Alpert, Pauline. Perils of
Pauline
- Alpert, Pauline. Piano Poker
- Alpert, Pauline. Tut Tut
- Alpert, Pauline. Wedding of
the Painted Doll
Otherwise, see the links to the following
compositions by female composers new to my
site as of this month:
- Althoff, Edith. Daffy Dill.
New York: Jack Mills, 1923.
- Althoff, Edith. Dancing Fingers.
New York: Jack Mills, 1923.
- Althoff, Edith. Honky Dory.
New York: Jack Mills, 1922.
- Arens, Bulah. Checker: Rag Two
Step (arranged by Julia
Rosenbush). Indianapolis, IN: Carlin &
Lennox, 1908.
- Asher, Mabel. Cinder-Ella Rag.
San Diego, CA: Mabel Asher, 1910.
- Aufderheide, May. My Girl of the
Golden Days (words by
Earle C Jones). Indianapolis, IN: JH
Aufderheide & Co, 1910.
- Aufderheide, May. You and Me in the
Summertime (words
by Rudolph Aufderheide). Indianapolis, IN:
JH Aufderheide & Co, 1911.
- Baker, Edythe. Blooie-Blooie
(1920) [view handwritten
manuscript by composer]
- Beauchamp, Eleanora. Brush Creek Rag.
Cincinnati, OH: Geo B Jennings, 1913.
- Bierman, Ida G. Pike Pickers: A
Rag. Chicago, IL: WC
Polla Co, 1904.
- Bird, Harriet. Evolution March.
Kansas City, MO: Jones Publishing Co,
1902.
- Bolen, Grace. The Black Diamond.
Kansas City, MO: Carl Hoffman, 1899.
- Bruggeman, Carrie (as "Cal Stark"). Baby Blues: Fox
Trot. St Louis:
Syndicate Music Company, 1917.
- Case, Anna. Metropolitan Rag.
Newark, NJ: TW Allen, 1917.
- Cloud, Mollie. Coldwater Rag.
Lincoln, NB: G.L. Dearing Music Pub, 1913
- Cocroft, Nellie Weldon. The Georgia
Cracker: March and Two Step.
Thomasville, GA: CC Cocroft Music Co,
1910.
- Comfort, Anita. Imogene
(words by FW Swan). New York: Anita
Comfort, 1898.
- Comfort, Anita. Mopsy Massy of
Talahassee: Plantation Song and Rag
Dance. New York: Anita
Comfort, 1898.
- Dobyns, Geraldine.
Holly And
Mistletoe Rag. New
Orleans, LA: Philip Werlein Ltd, 1909.
- Flennard, Eva Note.
Shifty Shuffles:
Buck Dance.
Philadelphia, PA: Welch & Wilsky,
1897.
Newly added rags by
female composers (surname
G-L)
- Gilmore, Maude. Lorelei: A Reverie.
Kansas City, MO: Charles L Johnson &
Co, 1912.
- Goodfried, Gussie. The Peekaboo Peek
– A Different Syncopation: March.
New York: FA Mills, 1911.
- Hanshaw, Laverne. Niagara Rag.
Dallas, TX: Bush & Gerts, 1914.
- Hatch, Emma Lyon (with David Sequeira).
The Hyacinth:
Intermezzo. New York: M
Witmark & Sons, 1903.
- Houston, Annie. Motor Bus. Dallas,
TX: Bush & Gerts, 1914.
- Huddleston, Corrie. Call 'Em Toodles.
New York: Jack Mills, 1921
- Jacobson, Alice. Leslie's March.
Santa Cruz, CA: Alice Jacobson, 1908
- Kamman, Effie. What's Your Hurry?
New York: Remick, 1923.
- Karns, Verdi. Ragamuffin.
Bluffton, IN: Verdi Karns, 1899.
- Kleinbeck, BF. Eliza's Trip to
the Pan-American: March and Two Step.
Cincinnati, OH: Union Music Co., 1901.
- Koninsky, Sadie. Boardin' House
Johnson: Cake Walk. New
York: Joseph W Stern, 1899.
- Koninsky, Sadie. Mae Marsh Waltzes.
Troy, NY: Koninsky Music Co, 1917.
- Koninsky, Sadie. Maid of the Mist
Waltzes. Troy, NY:
Koninsky Music Co, 1908.
- Louka, Marie**.
The Captain
General: March and Two Step.
Philadelphia, PA: HA Weymann & Son,
1906
Newly added rags by female composers (surname
M-R)
- Merrill, Blanche. Tanguay Rag.
New York: Charles K Harris, 1910.
- Miller, Lola. Uncle Joshe's
Jubilee: Two-Step.
Sedalia, MO: AW Perry's & Sons, 1906
- Moore, Luella Lockwood (lyrics) (music
by Harry Guy). Love's Eternity.
New York: Jerome H. Remick, 1915.
- Moore, Luella Lockwood (words by Earle
C. Jones). This World Would
Be A Lonesome Land, Without You,
Dear. New York:
Jerome H Remick, 1911.
- Nichols, Nellie. The Base-ball Bug.
New York: Ted Snyder Co, 1911.
- Nichols, Nellie. Pasha's Passion.
New York: Ted Snyder Co, 1911.
- Nieman, Eva. Broadway Rag.
Cincinnati, OH: Eva Nieman, 1910.
- Nugent, Maude. Wake Up Malinda:
March Two Step. New
York, Jerome H Remick, 1905.
- Owen, Anita. Dance of the
Collywobbles. Chicago,
IL: Wabash Music Company, 1899.
- Parker, Fay. That Irresistible
Rag. St Louis: The
Syndicate Music Company, 1914.
- Pearce, Florence. Big Pow Wow:
Indian Intermezzo. New
York: Maurice Shapiro, 1911.
- Ralya, Edna. Winnie's Arrival:
A New Rag. Cincinnati,
OH: Philip Kussel, 1903
- Ray, Marguerite. Copper King Rag.
Los Angeles, CA: Hatch & Loveland,
1912.
- Rudisill, Bess. Burning Rags.
St Louis: Samuel Simon, 1904.
Newly added rags by female composers (surname
S-Z)
- Sanders, Alma. Some Pepp.
New York: Jerome H Remick, 1915 (sheet
music in Hulse, Cake Walks).
- Sanders, Zellah Edith. Manila Rag.
Chicago: Lyon & Healy, 1899.
- Smith, Alma & Lilburn
Kingsbury. Razzle Dazzle.
Sedalia, MO: AW Perry & Sons, 1905.
- Stith, Kate Myers. Frizzles: March
and Two Step. Kansas
City, MO: Charles L Johnson, 1907.
- Stokes, Nellie. Checkers.
Detroit: Whitney-Warner Publishing Co,
1903.
- Story, Pauline. Keep A Shufflin':
Ragtime Dance. New York:
Hamilton Gordon, 1905.
- Thomas, Lucy. 'Lasses: Rag Time
Two Step. Cincinnati,
OH: The Groene Music Publ Co, 1904.
- Tice, Blanche. All Around Town:
Fox Trot. Sioux
City, IA: Blanche Tice, 1916.
- Tice, Blanche. When The Sun Sets
In Ireland: Waltz Song.
Sioux City, IA: Blanche M. Tice Music Pub.
Co., 1919
- Uhrig-Cummins, Ella. Kentucky Walk
Away: Two Step. Saint
Louis, MO: John Stark & Son, 1904
- Watson, Nell Wright. That Texas Rag.
Dallas, TX: Bush & Gerts, 1913.
- White, Margaret Agnew. Ragged Terry.
Dallas, TX: Bush & Gerts, 1913.
- Williams, Jane. Trifler Two Step.
St. Louis, MO: Thiebes-Stierlin Music Co,
1905.
- Williamson, Carlotta. Samos Intermezzo.
Boston, MA: The Colonial Music Publishing
Co, 1903.
** I have a note at
the start of the entries for Marie Louka that
Marie Louka was likely a pseudonym for a
male composer, Johann Schmid, but I have
kept those entries for now but will consider
removing them in future updates.
What's New as of February 1, 2021 [top]
The Interplay Between Classical Music,
Ragtime, and Jazz
Since launching this essay last week on the
interplay between classical music, ragtime,
and jazz on January 28, 2021, I have made the
following structural additions or changes to The
Interplay Between Classical Music, Ragtime,
and Jazz: I re-titled it from "Classical
Music in Ragtime and the Influence of Ragtime
on Classical Music Composers" to its current
title; I re-organized the content to better
differentiate between "ragging" the classics
and "jazzing" the classics and between the
ragtime era and the modern era, along with
separating out "classical" ragtime composers
(such as Lamb or Joplin). I also added various
bibliographic entries.
More substantive changes include the
following:
Irving Berlin
One reader, in commenting on an early
version of the essay, noted that I had missed
some early "ragging the classics" for Irving
Berlin, so I added the following links or
entries into the section
on Irving Berlin:
- Irving Berlin. That Opera Rag.
New York: Ted Snyder & Co., 1910.
- Irving Berlin. Opera Burlesque
(on the "Sextette" from Lucia
de Lammermoor) 1912)
- Irving Berlin. Ragtime Opera
Medley (from Watch
Your Step). New York: Waterson,
Berlin & Snyder Co., 1914.
I also
added an entry for the
following chapter and
book:
- Larry
Hamberlin, "National
Identity in 'That
Opera Rag'” in
Larry Hamberlin,
ed., Tin
Pan Opera: Operatic
Novelty Songs in the
Ragtime Era. (New
York: Oxford University
Press, 2011).
George Fairman
Vincent Johnson, in
commenting on an early version of the essay,
noted that I had missed composer George
Fairman, so I added the following links or
entries in the new section on George
Fairman:
George Gershwin
A reader also noted that I had not dug deep
enough on Gershwin so I added an entry in my
section on George Gershwin for the
following piece since it is believed no
original manuscript or score exists for it:
- George Gershwin. Ragging the
"Traumerei" (lyrics by Leonard
Praskins) (1912/1913) [listen to performance].
Bert
Grant (and Cecil Arnold)
Vincent Johnson also
let me know about the following composition,
the sheet music for which does not appear to
be freely online, but I added a
new entry for Bert Grant:
Henry Lange
Vincent Johnson
also let me know about Henry Lange, so I added
the following compositions to a new entry on Henry Lange:
I also added mention of the following novelty
piano compositions by Henry Lange even though
they do not "rag" the classics: Whippin’ the Ivories
(1922) [listen to performance]
and Page Mr. Pianist
(1922) [listen to MIDI file].
Other changes or additions on the
site
I added links to the following sheet music:
I also added a link to the website of music
Professor Walter Cosand to my section in
Sources
on online
sources of ragtime sheet music due to
his fairly extensive links to public domain
sheet music, including some hard to find
ragtime and novelty songs, including being the
source for many of the Henry Lange
compositions listed above.
Update #28: What's New as of January 28,
2021 [top]
New essay
I added a new essay:
This essay discusses ragtime and jazz and
modern era composers and performers who
"ragged" or "jazzed" the classics (such as
George Cobb, Eubie Blake, and Ethan Uslan)
along with classical music composers (such as
Debussy and Satie) who were influenced by
ragtime and jazz. As noted in the essay, my
treatment of some of the composers is
relatively superficial, blamed in part on the
pandemic lockdown making it difficult to
access resources at my University music
library (combined with my lacking the musical
training to properly compare and contrast the
various composers discussed and to analyze
their scores in detail to show the ragtime or
classical music allusions, depending on the
score). For now, I am treating the essay as a
work in project and I would hope to expand and
improve it in the future, time permitting.
Note: On January 29, 2021, after
posting this new essay the day prior, I
re-titled it from "Classical Music in Ragtime
and the Influence of Ragtime on Classical
Music Composers" to the current title and
slightly re-organized some of the content.
Axel Christensen: The Czar of Ragtime
and His Ragtime Review
I added links to the sheet music for the
following compositions to "Chapter
3: Sheet Music of Axel Christensen and his
Colleagues" in Axel
Christensen: The Czar of Ragtime and His Ragtime
Review:
Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era
I added a link to the sheet music for the
following pieces in Cakewalks
in the Ragtime Era:
Female Composers of Ragtime
I added a link to the following piece in "Sheet
Music for Rags Composed by Women (by
surname: S-Z") from my essay on Female Composers of
Ragtime (also now listed in Ragtime
at the Zoo: Animal Rags):
- Broncho Billy.
Nell Wright Slaughter. Dallas, TX: Bush
& Gertz, 1914.
Food and ragtime
I was able to fill some gaps in my list of
food-related ragtime compositions in my essay
Food
and Ragtime by adding links to the
following pieces of sheet music:
-
The Candy.
Clarence Jones. Cincinnati, OH: John
Arnold, 1909.
- Mashed Potatoes.
Calvin Lee Woolsey. Braymer, MO: Calvin
Lee Woolsey, 1911.
I also added entries for the following
food-related compositions:
- Banana Peel Rag. Hal
Isbitz. Available in 12
Piano Rags by Hal Isbitz.
- Beer & Skittles. Hal
Isbitz. Available in 12
Piano Rags by Hal Isbitz.
The Rags of Charles Johnson
I added links to the following pieces in The
Rags of Charles Johnson:
- Hester on Parade.
Charles L Johnson. Kansas
City, MO: J.W. Jenkins Sons Music Co.,
1899.
- Peek-A-Boo Rag.
Charles L Johnson. Chicago:
FJA Forster Music Publisher, 1914.
The Rags of George Linus Cobb
My essay on The Rags of George Linus Cobb
now contains links to the sheet music of his
215 known compositions. In addition, I added
the title of "Ivory Echoes" to my
list of his unconfirmed compositions
since "Ivory Echoes" is listed as one of his
compositions on under his name on the first
page of Patrol of the Pelicans.
Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags
I was also able to fill some gaps in my list
of animal-related ragtime compositions in my
essay Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal
Rags by adding links to the following
pieces of sheet music:
- Broncho Billy.
Nell Wright Slaughter. Dallas, TX: Bush
& Gertz, 1914.
- Bugs Rag.
Nina Kohler. Sherman, TX: Nina Kohler,
1913.
- Glory of the
Cubs.
Arthur Marshall
(lyrics by F. R. Sweirngen). Chicago: H.
& F. R. Sweigen, 1908.
- The Honey Bee.
Mamie Williams. Kansas City, MO:
Williams Publishing Co, 1902.
- My Pet.
Zez Confrey. New York: Jack Mills, 1921.
- Rats!!!
M Kendree Miller. Dallas, TX: Bush
& Gerts, 1914.
- Snuggle Pup.
George L Cobb. Boston, MA: Walter
Jacobs, 1929. Listed in TAR. Copyright
registration date: 4 March 1929.
I
also added entries for the following
ragtime revival era compositions relating
to animals:
Ragtime Waltzes
I added links to the following pieces in Ragtime
Waltzes:
Update #27: What's New as of January 1,
2021 [top]
For the last few weeks, I have been checking
every link on this site and fixing any that
were broken. Over the years, the amount of
"link rot" has declined as libraries and other
organizations use permanent URLs; however, the
broken links this time were mainly due to a
few libraries and organizations making their
sites "secure" through the use of "https://"
which resulted in the old URL being broken.
I also briefly reviewed each article and
updated content, described below in more
detail.
The major news with these updates is the
sourcing of more George L Cobb compositions,
resulting in my essay on George L. Cobb
now providing links to 208 of his known 215
compositions, resulting in links to close to
97% of his compositions being available online
on my site for free (I have yet been unable to
obtain copies of the remaining 8 compositions
not yet available online but am continuing to
try to source them). The addition of links to
almost all of Cobb's compositions came about
largely as a result of the work of the Silent Film Sound &
Music Archive to digitize most of the
issues of the The Tuneful Yankee
(1917) and Melody Magazine
(1918-1930) where I was able to source many
of his previously hard to find compositions.
I have also updated my website regarding the
sad news about the following two accomplished
ragtime personalities:
- Nora Hulse:
Nora, a retired music professor from
Central Methodist College, who immersed
her self in ragtime research and
performances, passed away July 24,
2020, at the age of 88. Since her website at http://www.norahulse.com
no longer appears to be active, in any
situations where I had linked to her
site in the past I have either re-linked
to an alternative source where available
and if there were no other alternative
sources I instead linked to the
Internet Archive version of her site.
- David Lee:
David, discussed here in my essay
on Ragtime in Canada,
passed away January
22, 2019, at the age of 85. I
had the pleasure of
(quite poorly!) playing
David's grand piano at his home in the
Hamilton, Ontario, area a number of
years ago following one of his
performances. In addition, his children
have recently reached out to me and I
hope to followup with them to discuss
their father to allow me to provide a
more detailed profile of David (they
also have copies of their father's sheet
music available; if interested in
acquiring copies, email me at
"owner" then "at"
(using the symbol) and then
"ragtimepiano.ca" and I can
help coordinate your acquisition).
Otherwise, I added new content or links to the
following pages:
Ragtime Sources:
As a reminder, the York University Music
Library in Toronto continues to greatly
increase the number of compositions from John
Arpin's personal collection with there now
being over 8,600 digitized pieces from his
sheet music collection in their database (with
many of them being from the ragtime era).
I added links to Ragtime Sources to the
following sources:
In addition, the New York Public Library
has digitized the following ragtime
magazine:
The Hathi Trust has also
digitized a few issues of the following
ragtime magazine:
Michael Chisolm
appears to be working on a new massive
project to digitize ragtime sheet music at Ragtime Sheet Music.Although
there is no sheet music yet linked, included
is an extensive list (without links) of
ragtime sheet music by title along with a
separate list (pending) of ragtime sheet
music that cannot be sourced online.
I also made a note in Ragtime
Sources about the work by the Internet
Archive to now seemingly allowing person
to "borrow" certain books online, including a
number of ragtime books listed on my
Ragtime Sources page. For example, the
following book can be accessed online at the
link provided:
- Jasen, David &
Trebor Jay Tichenor. Rags and
Ragtime: A Musical History.
New York: Dover Publications, 1978
[Internet Archive
version].
Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era
I added the following pieces to Cakewalks
in the Ragtime Era:
Note: I also added A Bran Dance Shuffle:
A Rag Time Cake Walk to Food
and Ragtime (the title to this piece is
not a typo for "barn": apparently, a
bran-dance is a
type of harvest or square dance where bran
is spread on the floor).
Female Composers of Ragtime
It has taken me 15 years to realize that the
former title of this essay – Women
Composers of Ragtime – was not likely
grammatically correct.
Hence, I renamed this essay to Female
Composers of Ragtime.
The Rags of Charles Johnson
The York University Music
Library recently digitized the following
piece so I added it to my essay on The
Rags of Charles L Johnson:
- Johnson, Charles L. The Girl for Me
(lyrics by Wm. R. Clay). Kansas City, MO:
Chas L Johnson, 1911.
The Rags of George Linus Cobb
I have added links to the following
previously-hard-to-source compositions by
George Cobb, largely made findable by browsing
through recently digitized issues of The Tuneful Yankee
(1917) and Melody Magazine
(1918-1930):
- Cobb, George (as "Leo Gordon"). Youth and You Waltz
(with Thomas Allen). Boston:
Walter Jacobs, 1917.
- Cobb, George. Piano Salad.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1923.
- Cobb, George. Slumber Song
(instrumental). Boston: Walter Jacobs,
1923.
- Cobb, George. Mountain Laurel
Waltz (with Thomas Allen
& RE Hildreth). Boston: Walter Jacobs,
1924. Note: The catalog entry for
this title from the Houston Public Library
includes George L. Cobb as an "added
author" even though Cobb's name does not
appear on the sheet music. For now, I am
keeping the listing here pending further
research.
- Cobb, George. Static and Code.
Available in Dementia Americana: A
Super-Syncopated Suite No. 1: For Piano.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1925.
- Cobb, George. Hop House Blues.
Available in Dementia Americana: A
Super-Syncopated Suite No. 2: For Piano.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1925.
- Cobb, George. Owl on the Organ.
Available in Dementia Americana: A
Super-Syncopated Suite No. 3: For Piano.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1925.
- Cobb, George. Savanna Sunset.
Available in Dementia Americana: A
Super-Syncopated Suite No. 4: For Piano.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1925.
- Cobb, George. Remembrance.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1926.
- Cobb, George. Blue Egypt.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1928.
- Cobb, George. Snuggle Pup.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1929.
Of the 215 known compositions by
Cobb listed on my site, the following
titles are the 8 pieces that are not yet
online and that I am trying to source:
- Cobb, George. Stunning
Grenadiers: March & Two Step.
Cleveland, OH: Charles I Davis Music
Publisher, 1912.
- Cobb, George. On the QT: March
and Two-Step. Boston: Walter
Jacobs, 1914.
- Cobb, George. Give My Love to
Dixie (words by Robert
Levenson). Providence, RI: Harold Freeman
Music, 1920.
- Cobb, George. A Night In India.
Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1923.
- Cobb, George. The Days Gone By
(words by George Cobb). Buffalo, NY: HC
Weasner & Co, 1925.
- Cobb, George. Patrol of the
Pelicans. Chicago: Will
Rossiter, 1926.
- Cobb, George. Piano Sauce.
Boston: Hub Music Co, 1927. Listed
in TAR. Copyright registration date: 13
August 1927.
- Cobb, George. Uncle Sam Goes to
Town (Mow 'em Down, Mow 'em Down, Mow
'em Down). 1942.
Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags
The following animal rag is new to the site on
Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal
Rags:
- Blue Jay Rag.
Wooster, Frank. St Louis. MO: Frank
Wooster, 1907.
I also added the following piece to Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal
Rags:
In addition, I also added the following two
Cobb rags to Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal
Rags that were already listed in my
essay on Cobb but inadvertently not included
in my list of animal-themed ragtime
compositions:
Ragtime in Québec
By searching the names of particular
Québec-based ragtime-era composers in Le Passe Temps, I was
able to find more ragtime era sheet music from
Quebec that I added to my essay on Ragtime
in Québec:
Ragtime Waltzes
I was able to source the sheet music for the
following two ragtime era waltzes that were
listed in that essay but that now have links
to them (links to these pieces were also added
into the respective listings in Female
Composers of Ragtime):
I also harvested the sheet music from this
site to identify ragtime era waltzes that had
been inadvertently omitted from Ragtime
Waltzes and found around 20 or so pieces
(particularly from Ragtime
in Québec) that I have now added to Ragtime
Waltzes, resulting in there being links
to (free) sheet music for over 230 ragtime era
waltzes on this site.
Update #26: What's New as of December 2018
[top]
Update
#25: What's New as of February 2017 [top]
- A reader of the
site helped to confirm that Hero
of the Game by George L Cobb
was in fact published in 1914 so I
updated the entry for that title.
Update
#24: What's New as of October 2016 [top]
- I have checked
every page and every link on this site,
correcting any broken links and making
minor improvements, where warranted.
Update
#23: What's New as of June 17, 2015 [top]
- The Black
Crows: Cake Walk and Two Step.
Raymond Miller. Philadelphia, PA:
Welch Wilsky, 1899 [view
sheet music]
- Polka Dot:
March and Two Step Characteristic.
Beth Rudisill. Chicago: Harold
Rossiter, 1912 [view
sheet music]
Update
#22: What's New as of May and June 2015 [top]
In May 2015, Michael
Mathew has updated his amazing Ragtime
Compendium, a massive bibliography of
over 16,750 ragtime compositions (a link to
his site is also on my Ragtime Sources
page).
For the last two months, I have updated
every page on this site, fixing broken links
and adding new content as follows:
- I added a new page
called "Additional
Research Topics" representing a
sort of "to do" list for additional
research for me to undertake, time
permitting.
- That
Whistling Rag. Jospeh
Foley. Thorold, ON: Joseph M Foley,
1912 [view
sheet music]
- National
Rag. Ethel Schwartz. New
Orleans, LA: Ethel Schultz, 1907 [view
sheet music]
- Shiftless
Sam: March Two-Step.
Carlotta Williamson. Boston, MA: The
Colonial Music Publishing Co, 1904
[view
sheet music]
- Honeysuckle:
Tango. Charles L Johnson.
Chicago: Forster Music Publisher, 1914
[view
sheet music]
- I'll Meet
You on the Golden Shore. Charles
L Johnson (words by William
Clay). Chicago: Forster Music
Publisher, 1911 [view
sheet music]
- With You. Charles
L Johnson (lyrics
by William Clay). Chicago: Forster
Music Publisher, 1908 [view
sheet music]
- Bob's Chili Rag.
Robert Cleary. Spokane, WA: Robert E
Cleary, 1921 [view
sheet music]
- Chocolate
Drops: A Darktown Improbability.
Harry Von Tilzer. New York: H Von
Tilzer Music, 1902 [view
sheet music]
- Chop Suey Rag.
Edward Hayne. Chicago, IL: Edward
Hayne Music Publishing, 1915 [view
sheet music]
- Dish Rag:
Two Step. Floyd Godfrey.
Peoria, IL: Chas C Adams & Co,
1909 [view
sheet music]
- Peaches and
Cream. Percy Wenrich.
New York: Jerome H Remick, 1905 [view
sheet music]
- Ravioli Rag.
Frank Lucanese & Charles
Lucotti. New York: Jerome H Remick,
1914 [view
sheet music]
- Saibo:
danse caractéristique.
Alcide Giroux. Lowell, MA: EL Turcot,
1916 [view sheet
music]
- Kentucky
Rosebuds: Cake Walk or One Step.
Arthur Lange. New York: Joe Morris
Music, 1915 [view
sheet music]
- Bumble: A
Characteristic Buzz –
Two-Step Unique. Will
Livernash: Kansas City: Will
Livernash, 1907 [view
sheet music]
- The
Captive: March and Two Step.
David Hawthorne. Boston: The Vinton
Music Co, 1909 [view
sheet music]
- Chicken on the
Fence. Jacob Henry
Ellis. New York: Willis Woodward
& Co, 1905 [view
sheet music]
- Gobbler’s
Gambol: The New Turkey-Trot.
Calvin Grooms. New York: Leo Feist,
1913 [view
sheet music]
- The Horse
Trot: American Dance. Uri
Davis. New York: Jerome H Remick, 1912 [view
sheet music]
- Day Dreams:
Syncopated Waltzes.
Maxwell Goldman. St
Louis: Buck and Lowney, 1912 [view
sheet music]
- Humoreske:
Syncopated Waltzes. Will
Morrison. Indianopolis, IN: Warner C
Williams, 1915 [view
sheet music]
- Killarney:
Syncopated Waltzes. Frank
Hoyt Losey. Williamsport, PA:
Vandersloot Music Pub, 1912 [view
sheet music]
- That Waltz.
Will Morrison. Indianopolis,
IN: Warner C Williams, 1914 [view
sheet music]
I also added here
to Ragtime
Waltzes a complete
listing of waltzes by Jean-Baptiste
Lafrenière that were listed in Ragtime in
Québec but inadvertently left
off of the list in Ragtime
Waltzes.
- I'd Like to
Take a Chance with You George
Cobb (words by Jack Yellen).
Cleveland, OH: Charles I Davis Music
Publisher, 1911 [view sheet music]
- If I Find
Another Boy Like You George
Cobb (words by Jack Yellen).
Cleveland, OH: Charles I Davis, 1913 [view sheet
music]
- Moonlight
Makes Me Lonesome For A Girl Like
You. George Cobb (words by
Jack Yellen). Cleveland, OH: Charles I
Davis Music Publisher, 1908
[view
sheet music]
- On the page of Ragtime
Sources I added the
following links to free online
sheet music for Brazilian tangos:
I also added
a link to the following audio site that
contains audio files to a number of
ragtime compositions:
Update #21: What's New as
of April 2014 [top]
During late March and
early April 2014 I have been slowly
working on fixing broken links
Update
#20: What's New as of October 20, 2013 [top]
I added the following
cakewalk provided by Peter Persoff:
Update
#19: What's New as of September 19, 2013 [top]
I added the following
rag / cakewalk provided by Peter Persoff:
Update
#18: What's New as of August 1, 2013 [top]
I fixed the PDF sheet
music for Scott Joplin's Bink's
Waltz (here in
Scott Joplin:
The King of Ragtime Writers).
I have also added the
following rags provided by ragtimer
Michael Chisolm:
- Rag-Time
Intermezzo by Maxwell Silver
(New York: FA Mills, 1900), available here
in Rare Rags.
- Charcoal: A
Study in Black - Characteristic
March by S. Gibson Cooke
(Boston, MA: G.W. Setchell, 1903),
available
here in Rare
Rags.
- Charcoal Eph
by John Harding (Baltimore, MD:
Equitable Pub Co, 1903), available here
in Rare Rags.
Update #17: What's New
as of May 23, 2013 [top]
Ragtimer Michael
Chisolm was kind enough to send me copies
of the following three rags each of which
have been added to the following pages:
Update #16: What's New
as of September 10, 2012 [top]
After much delay, I
have started to fix broken links and
reformat pages on this website, as well as
update information that was incorrect or
out-of-date.
Update
#15: What's New as of December 28, 2008
[top]
- Andrew Barrett was kind enough to
provide digital scans of the following
rags, all of which are listed in That
American Rag (Jasen and Jones):
- Blarney Kisses: Characteristic
Irish Rag (1911) by Holmes
Travis (Chicago, IL: M.L. Carlson),
available here
in Rare Rags
- Bunny-Boy: A Ragtime Conceit
(1912) by Eric C. Gatty (New York, NY:
Joseph W. Stern), available here
in Rare Rags
- Saronoff Rag (1913) by
Silvio Hein (New York, NY: T.B.
Harms), available here
in Rare Rags
- Satisfied (An Emotional Drag)
(1913) by Bruce Raymond (Theron C.
Bennett) (Bennett Kreyer Music),
available here
in Rare Rags
[Note: this is an earlier
"self-published" version under his
pseudonym before Victor Kremer
published under the name of Theron C.
Bennett in the
more widely known version]
- Shock Rag (1911) by
Elmer Olson (Minneapolis, MN: A.W.
Pinger), available here
in Rare Rags
- Synchopated Echoes
(1920) by Elmer Olson (Los Angeles,
CA: W.A. Quincke), available here
in Rare Rags
- Wild-Fire Rag: A Syncopated
Rag (1911) by Holmes
Travis (Chicago, IL: M.L. Carlson),
available here
in Rare Rags
Andrew also provided digital scans of
the following ragtime era compositions,
including two waltzes by ragtime
composers:
- Jakerloo Jazz (1919)
by Warren Hasting (London: Francis Day
& Hunter), available here
in Rare Rags
- Jazbo: Foxtrot (1915)
by Arthur S. Shaw (Chicago, IL:
Forster Music), available here
in Rare Rags
- Pickinniny Capers
(1912) by Theron Bennett (Springfield
MO: Cornelius J Shea), available here
in Rare Rags
- Fragrance of June: Late
Hesitation or Boston Waltz
by Theron C Bennett (New York: Theron
Bennett, 1914), available here
in Ragtime
Waltzes
- Red Rose Waltz (1918)
by Charley Straight (Chicago, IL: Ted
Browne Music Co.), available here
in Ragtime
Waltzes
- Fred Heltman: In That
American Rag, Jasen and Jones
describe Fred Heltman as "Cleveland's
foremost ragtime composer" (p. 148)
whose Daisy Rag was a success
for Sam Fox Publishing. Thereafter,
Heltman published his own rags. He was
also a composer of songs. The following
five rags by Heltman are available
online:
- Daisy
Rag (Cleveland, OH:
Sam Fox Pub. Co., 1909)
However, I have added (free) sheet
music to the following two other rarer
Heltman rags, contained in a folio
published by Heltman called Six Rags
(which contain all of the foregoing
except for Daisy Rag):
- Fred Heltman's Rag
(Cleveland, OH: The Fred Heltman Co.,
1918), available here
in Rare Rags
- Ring Tum Diddie
(Cleveland, OH: Popular Music
Publishers, 1912), available here
in Rare Rags
All of Heltman's rags are listed in That
American Rag.
- I also added (free) sheet music for
the following compositions:
- Ten Penny Rag: A Driving Hit
(1911) by Clarence E. Brandon &
Billy Smythe (St. Louis, MO: Brandon
& Smythe), available here in
Rare Rags
and listed in That American Rag
- Sphinx Rag (1912) by
Leon Carroll (San Francisco, CA:
Sphinx Pub. Co.), available here
in Rare Rags
- check out the wonderful cover
- When Oscar
Played the Flute (1912) by
George L. Cobb (Buffalo, NY: H.C.
Weasner & Co.), available here
in the Rags
of George L. Cobb
Update
#14: What's New as of September 14, 2008
[top]
- Further to my last update, I obtained
a copy of Au p?le nord: Two step
(1909 by) Jéan-Baptiste Lafrenière
(available here
in Ragtime
Music in Quebec) from Montréal
qui chante (Vol. 2, no 7) (10
octobre 1909) with the hope that I had
uncovered a rare composition by him
(since I found no reference to it in any
of his standard bibliographies). Alas,
the piece is identical music to
Lafrenière's Silly-Ass
(1907) (available here).
As such, it appears he merely
republished the same music under a
different title and with a different
publisher. Although I am disappointed to
have not been the (re)discoverer of an
unknown or note widely-known
composition, Au p?le nord: Two
step does raise some
questions:
- The piece is dedicated to Captain
Bernier and the crew of the "Arctic."
Bernier
was a Canadian explorer (1852-1934)
who led a number of expeditions by
ship to Canada's north. Did Bernier
pay Lafrenière for the piece (I assume
not) or was it merely a patriotic
gesture by Lafrenière? Perhaps
Lafrenière's orchestra played at the
dock at one of the launches of the
"Arctic."
- Did Lafrenière get paid separately
for this piece? Was it well known that
he was repackaging Silly Ass
as Au pole nord?
- I have also added the sheet music to
the following rag, which is listed in That
American Rag:
- Sweet Pickles: Characteristic
Two-Step (1907) by Theron
C. Bennett (listed by Jasen and Jones
by his pseudonym, George E. Florence),
available here
in Rare Rags
and here
in Ragtime
and Food
- I also added the sheet music to seven
of Herbert Ingraham's instrumentals, all
from 1909:
- Dale Hadley of California was kind
enough to send me a color copy of Love-Tree
Waltzes (1908) by ragtime
composer Charlotte Blake, availabe here
in Ragtime
Waltzes and here in Women Composers
of Ragtime. I encourage other
readers to send me any public domain,
rare ragtime instrumentals.
Update #13:
What's New as of June 14, 2008 [top]
- I added a new essay
called "Ragtime
Music in Quebec" (Featuring
the Rags and Compositions of
Jéan-Baptiste Lafrenière and other
Ragtime-Era Compositions Published in
Québec). The National
Library of Quebec has done a
wonderful thing by digitizing Le
Pass Temps, a French
language musical periodical/newspaper
than ran from 1895 to
1945. This periodical published most of
the compositions of Jéan-Baptiste Lafrenière.
As such, my essay contains the sheet
music for all 43 known publications of
Jéan-Baptiste Lafrenière and I hope to
add a 44th shortly by requesting a print
copy of Au p?le nord: Two step
from 1909 by Jéan-Baptiste Lafrenière
which is a composition not ordinarily
included in most listings of his
compositions).
In addition, I also include a listing
of 143 other ragtime-era compositions
published in Quebec, 106 of which
include the full-text sheet music (for
free). Of these, 3 pieces included "rag"
in the title (Some Rag: A Real
Live One by Willie Eckstein,
Chewing Rag by Alcide
Giroux, and Rag Tags Rag
by Harry Thomas) and many others are
two-steps or syncopated marches that
fall within the ragtime tradition. Some
of the more interesting or prolific
composers included are Alcide Giroux,
Willie Eckstein, Otto Zimmerman, Wilfrid
Beaudry, Joseph Dumas, Louis-Napoleono
Guilbart, Fernand Heintz, Samuel Duguay
and Leon Dequin; for these composers, I
include brief biographical comments.
- I added the sheet music for the
following 4 rare rags that are not
otherwise published or easily available
online and all of which are listed in
Jasen and Jones, That American Rag:
- Borneo Rag: An
Oriental Pastime (1911)
by Neil Moret (i.e., Charles N.
Daniels), available here
in Rare Rags
- Rag Baby Mine (1913)
by George Botsford, available here
in Rare Rags
- The Yankee
Doodle Rag (1911) by
Garfield Wilson, available here
in Rare Rags
Update #12: What's
New as of March 21, 2008 [top]
- I added the sheet
music for the following 8 rare rags that
are not otherwise published or easily
available online and all of which are
listed in Jasen and Jones, That
American Rag:
- Black & White Rag
(1908) by George Botsford, available here
in Rare Rags
- Carnation: Ragtime Two Step (1903)
by Clyde D. Douglass, available here
in Rare Rags
- Rig-A-Ma-Role Rag
(1910) by Edwin F. Kendall, available
here
in Rare Rags
- Sponge: Two Step
(1911) by W.C. Simon, available here
in Rare Rags
- I added the sheet music for Razzazza
Mazzazza: An Extravaganza
(1906) by Arthur Prior, available here in
Rare Rags
- I added links to the following sheet
music from the wonderful website called
IN
Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana
(thanks to Luigi Ranalli for pointing
out the site) (most of these rags are
extremely rare; those listed in That
American Rag are marked "TAR"):
- Mosquito Bites
(TAR). Edwin F. Kendall. New York,
NY: Seminary Music, 1907 (available
here)
- Pigeon Walk. James
V. Monaco. New York: Broadway Music,
1914 (available here)
- The Race Horse Rag: Two Step
(TAR). Mike Bernard. Philadelphia,
PA: Jos. Morris, 1911 (available here)
- The
Bachelor's Waltz. Freida
Aufderheide. Indianapolis, IN:
Carlin and Lennox, 1909 (available here)
- Clothilda:
A March Two Step. Julia
L. Niebergall. Indianapolis, IN:
Carlin & Lennox, 1905 (available
here)
- In the
Heart of Dixie: Characteristic
March and Two Step.
Lenora Searles Hawes. Fort Wayne,
IN: C.C. Powell, 1903 (available here)
- Jolly
Crowd. Lizzie Mowen.
Rochester, NY: C.C. Powell, 1908
(available here)
- Novelty
Rag (TAR). May
Aufderheide. Indianapolis, IN: J.H.
Aufderheide & Co., 1911
(available here)
- Pelham
Waltzes. May
Aufderheide. Indianapolis, IN: J.H.
Aufderheide & Co., 1912
(available here)
- Pompeian
Waltzes. May
Aufderheide. Indianapolis, IN: J.H.
Aufderheide & Co., 1911
(available here)
- Ragtime
Showers: March And Two Step
(TAR). Kathryn Athol Morton. New
York, NY: Richard Saalfied, 1902
(available here)
- The
Richmond Rag (TAR) May
Aufderheide. Indianapolis, IN: J.H.
Aufderheide & Co., 1908
(available here)
- That
Captivating Rag (TAR)
Ruth Orndorff. Kendallville, IN:
Ruth Orndorff, 1912 (available here)
- Zepha Waltzes.
Lizzie Mowen. Rochester, NY: C.C.
Powell, 1908 (available here)
- Chili Con
Carne: A Hot Rag Two Step
(TAR). Elmer B. Griffith. La
Fayette, IN: Rinker Music Co., 1911
(available here)
- Reinette Rag (TAR)
(by David Reichstein) (Chicago, IL:
Christensen School, 1913) (available
here)
- Auld Lang Syne (Ragtime
Version). Axel
Christensen (arranger). Chicago, IL:
Forster Music, 1915 (available here)
- When You and I Were Young,
Maggie (Ragtime Version).
Axel Christensen (arranger).
Chicago, IL: Forster Music, 1915
(available here)
- Ragtimer Nora
Hulse was kind enough to point out
that the following composers I had
listed as women composers of rags were
in fact actually men: Billie Taylor,
Billie (sic) [Billy] Talbot, Gayle von
Kamacke Wood, M. Kendree Miller and
Frances Cox. I have removed them from my
listings of women composers and made
other date and spelling corrections to
some of my other entries for women
composers. Nora also pointed out that I
was missing a listing of the following
piece by Charles L. Johnson which I have
now added to my
essay on his rags. The piece was:
Charles L. Johnson. Dedication:
March and Two Step
(Oklahoma, OK: Frederickson-Kron Music
Co., 1906).
- Thanks to Alexandre Dias of Brazil for
pointing out that the full score of
Scott Joplin's Treemonisha
is available here
from the Library of Congress. I also
added a link here
to Joplin's Pine Apple Rag Song
(from the University of Mississippi
Libraries) thanks to a tip from ragtime
enthusiast Jang-Won Son of Seoul, Korea.
- Dr.
Rainer E. Lotz of Germany was kind
enough to suggest additions to my
bibliography in Cakewalks in
the Ragtime Era, including his
very own German Ragtime &
Prehistory of Jazz
(Chigwell, England: Storyville, 1985)
and Edward Samuel Walker's English
Ragtime: A Discography (Woodthorpe,
England: Edward S. Walker, 1971). At his
suggestion, I have also added an entry
for Chris Ware's Ragtime
Ephemeralist which has
excellent coverage of cakewalks.
- I added an entry here
to a "undiscovered" song by George L.
Cobb entitled Moonlight Makes Me
Lonesome from 1908. If you
were the person who won it on eBay and
are willing to provide a digital scan
for this site, I would be grateful.
- I made numerous minor corrections or
additions, including some relating to Axel
Christensen. Bill Edwards
corrected some Charles L. Johnson
biographical information that I added to
my essay on
Johnson, including changing his
year of birth to 1875 based on Census
research by Bill and Johnson's draft
card. Bill's biography of Johnson is here.
- I added the following two entries to
my Ragtime Sources page:
Update #11: What's New as
of November 13, 2007 [top]
- I added a note here in
my essay on Canadian ragtime
personalities to mark the passing of
John Arpin.
- I added the sheet music to the
following four rare rags, all of which
are listed in That American Rag (Jasen
& Jones):
- Colonial Rag (1914) by
Ernest R. Ball and Julius Lenzberg,
available here
in Rare Rags
- Dixie Kisses (1909) by
E. Clinton Keithley, available here
in Rare Rags
- Nervous Rag (1910) by
Bernard E. Fay and Blackford,
available here
in Rare Rags
Update
#10: What's New as of November 6,
2007 [top]
- I added the sheet
music for the following 10 rare rags
that are not otherwise published or
easily available and all of which are
listed in Jasen and Jones, That
American Rag:
- Knick Knocks Rag One-Step
(1915) by Phil Schwartz, available here
in Rare Rags.
- New Hippodrome Rag
(1914) by Herman E. Schultz, available
here
in Rare Rags.
According to the seller of this piece
on EBay, the New Hippodrome referenced
in the title was a vaudeville theatre
built in 1914 in Toronto by Michael
Shea of Buffalo, New York (whose
picture is on the cover). The seller
notes that the theatre was destroyed
in 1957. When I have more time, I will
investigate the history in more
detail.
- Rig-A-Jig Rag (1912)
by Nat. D. Ayer, available here in
Rare Rags.
- Smiles and Chuckles Rag One
Step (1917) by F. Henri
Klickmann, available here
in Rare Rags.
- The Tierney Rag (1913)
by Harry A. Tierney, available here
in Rare Rags.
- I added the
following George L. Cobb compositions:
I also updated
biographical information on Cobb using
research provided by Bill
Edwards and Luigi Ranalli. In
addition, I recalibrated the data on
Cobb's compositions indicating that
there is now a total of 210 known
compositions published by George L.
Cobb, with my site now having 166 of his
177 pre-1923 compositions.
- The Cat on the Keyboard
(1915) by Harry Stafford, available here.
- Monkey Blues (1918) by
Max Darewski, available here
Update #9: What's
New as of September 22, 2007 [top]
- I added the sheet music to Sweet
Pickin's Rag (1918) by
Charley Straight, available here
in Rare Rags.
Thanks to Vincent Johnson for providing
a digital copy of this piece.
- I added the sheet music to the
following two compositions by ragtime
composer Harry Jentes (1887 - 1958),
digital copies of which were provided by
Vincent Johnson:
- Soup and Fish Rag
(1913) by Harry Jentes and Pete
Wendling, available here
in Food and
Ragtime and here
in Rare Rags.
This rag is described by Jasen and
Tichenor (1978:178) as a "wandering
labyrinth of strange harmonies."
- I added the sheet music to Roy Bargy's
Sunshine Capers (1922),
available here
in Rare Rags.
Vincent Johnson also provided a digital
copy of this piece.
- I added the sheet music to Futuristic
Rag (1923) by Rube Bloom
(1902-1976), available here in
Rare Rags.
- I added the
following two pieces of sheet music by
Egbert van Alstyne:
- I added the sheet music to Double
Fudge (1902) by Joe Jordan,
available here
in Food and
Ragtime and here in
Rare Rags.
Jasen and Tichenor (1978:59-60) describe
this piece as a "fascinating concept"
with influences of Tom Turpin. The
digital copy of this piece was provided
by Vincent Johnson.
- I added the sheet music to Pegasus
(1908) by Robert B. Stirling (published
by Stark Music Co.) here in Rare Rags. As
was pointed out by Max
Morath when he sold this piece (to
me) on E-Bay, this sheet music uses the
same cover that Stark used in 1920 for a rag by
James Scott called Pegasus.
The piece by Stirling is not a rag but
is a march in 6/8 time. Ragtime sheet
music publishers have been known to
recycle covers. This was done by Stark
most likely to save money.
- I added the sheet music to Fighting
the Flames: Descriptive Two-Step
(1907) by Earl LaFarge here in
Rare Rags.
- I added the sheet music to Southern
Beauties: Two Step (1906) by
Carl Beck here
in Rare Rags.
- Won't You Come and Love Me?,
available here
(words by H.C. Weasner).
- That Lovely Dovey Glide,
available here.
I also added an alternative sheet music
cover here
for Cobb's Russian Rag
from a version of the piece published in
England.
- I added the sheet music to Jazzapation
(1920) by Edward Claypoole here in
Rare Rags.
Update #8: What's
New as of May 27, 2007 [top]
- Cheese and
Crackers (1909) by Homer
Denny, available here.
- Pepper
Sauce (1910) by H.A.
Fischler, available here.
- Stewed
Prunes (1910) by Oscar
Lorraine, available here.
- Washington
Pie: A Ragtime Piece
(1907) by Theodore Morse, available here.
I also added Stewed
Chicken to my Food
and Ragtime page (I added it in
Update #7 to Ragtime
at the Zoo but forgot to add it to
Food and Ragtime).
- The Lion Tamer Rag
(1913) by Al Marzian (as "Mark
Janza"), available here.
On the back of The Lion Tamer
Rag was a listing for the Youth
and Beauty Waltz by A.F.
Marzian, so I added this waltz to my
essay on Ragtime
Waltzes.
- Every
Little Note Means Love When Billy
Plays That Way (1912) by
George L. Cobb, available here.
- When the
Moon was Hanging Low
(1917) by George L. Cobb, available here.
- Adrien Le Gallo was
kind enough to supply a digital scan of
Golden Hours Reverie
(1916) by Charles L. Johnson, available
here
in my essay on The Rags of
Charles L. Johnson.
Update
#7: What's New as of April 8,
2007
[top]
- I added Huskin'
Time: A Rural One Step (1914)
by George L. Cobb here
in The Rags of
George L. Cobb. This piece is
extremely rare and does not show up in
the standard listings of instrumentals
by ragtime composers.
- In addition,
ragtimer Frederick
Hodges donated scans of the
following two extremely
rare instrumentals by Cobb:
- George L. Cobb. Fleetfoot
March. Buffalo, NY: H.C.
Weasner & Co., 1906, available here.
- George L. Cobb. Buffalo
Means Business. Louis C.
Synder, 1909. Listed in TAR. Copyright
registration date: June 14, 1909,
available here.
- I added two pieces
to Rare Rags
that I was lucky enough to buy on eBay
from Max Morath. The two pieces are:
- James E.C. Kelly. Icycles:
Rag Two-Step. New York:
Jerome H. Remick, 1907, available here.
- Felix Arndt. Marionette.
Cleveland, OH: Sam Fox Publishing Co.,
1914, available here.
- I added The Maurice Tango
(1912) by Silvio Hein here
in Rare Rags.
- I added a link to Felicity:
Hesitation Waltz (1914) by
Albert F. Marzian here
in Ragtime
Waltzes.
- Ira Kass reminded me of the good work
being done at the Indiana
Historical Society through their
digital images collection. It is worth
taking a look if you have not done so;
the sheet music collection is quite
interesting and, as one might assume,
has some interesting ragtime era pieces
from Indiana.
Here are two interesting pieces that I
believe are not easily available
elsewhere in print or online:
- S. Jergensen, Hoosier Rag
(Indianapolis, IN: Abby Music Co.,
1905) available from that site in PDF
here.
- Harry von Tilzer, I Love It:
A Fantastic Rag-Two Step
(New York: Harry von Tilzer Music,
1910) available from that site in PDF
here.
- The Buffalo March: For the
Piano. (1901) by Thomas
Preston Brooke, available here.
- Stewed Chicken Rag
(1912) by Glenn C. Leap, available here.
- Thoroughbreds: March and Two
Step (1912) by Emil
Seidel, available here.
- A Tip on the Derby: March and
Two-Step (1902) by Charles
J. Gebest, available here.
Update #6: What's New as
of December 29, 2006 [top]
Update #5: What's New
as of December 25, 2006 [top]
- I added the sheet music to the
following two compositions by Charles
L. Johnson available in my essay
of the Rags
of Charles L. Johnson:
- Charles L. Johnson, The
Harvest Hop: Charles L. Johnson's
Barn Dance (1908),
available here.
- Charles L. Johnson, Southern
Beauties: March-Two Step
(1907), available here.
- Harry Moore, I'm Jealous of
You (1908), available here.
- Harry Moore, Sweet Nora Doone
(1907), available here.
Both pieces were published by Harry H.
Sparks of Toronto around the same time
as Lamb's other "Canadian" compositions
(but after the time Lamb left Canada and
returned to the United States). I
believe my essay now contains all of
Lamb's "Canadian" and public domain
compositions.
I also replaced here
the existing sheet music and cover for The
Lilliputian's Bazaar: A Musical
Novelty (1905) by Joseph
Lamb with a colour
cover and a better
quality scan of the sheet music
from a personal copy I recently obtained
on eBay.
- George L. Cobb, Parade of the
Teddy Bears: Characteristic March
& Two Step (1908),
available here.
I believe this piece is extremely rare
since I did not uncover its existence
through my extensive research when I
first wrote my essay on George L. Cobb.
The cover for this piece is quite cute -
in addition to the marching teddy bears
there is a flag of Teddy Roosevelt with
the words "De-lighted" on it being
carried by one of the teddy bears.
- Love Dreams (Valse Boston and
Hesitation Waltz) (1914)
by M. Greenwald, available here.
- I added Perpetual Rag: March
Two Step (1908) by B.W.
Castle to Rare
Rags, available here.
- I added Sparkles: High Class
Ragtime Two Step (1909) by
Charles B. Ennis available to Rare Rags,
available here.
Update
#4: What's New as of November 26, 2006
[top]
- That Tantalizing Tango Tune
(1914), available here.
- Red Rooster
(1916), available here.
- Let's Take
A Trip Back To Dixie (1921),
available here.
I also added an entry to a newly
discovered Cobb composition called When
Oscar Played the Flute,
which was advertised on the last page of
Red Rooster. The entry for
When Oscar Played the Flute
is available here.
- I added a link to the sheet music for
Gum Drops: Novelty Two Step
(1915) by Henry Lodge, available here in
the essay on Food
and Ragtime.
- I added a link to the sheet music for
The Peach (1908) by Arthur
Marshall, available here in
the essay on Food
and Ragtime.
Update
#3: What's New as of October 18, 2006
[top]
- Pat Lamb Conn, the daughter of ragtime composer
Joseph F. Lamb, was kind enough to
provide me copies of two song
compositions of her father that I did
not yet have: Love in Absence
(1909) (available here)
and Playmates (1910)
(available here).
She also provided me a colour copy of
the cover for Dear Blue Eyes,
True Eyes (1908) (available
here).
This means that I am able to provide
access to all of Lamb's public domain
compositions with the exception of two
pieces that I am still trying to track
down (both compositions he wrote using
the pseudonym Harry Moore: Sweet
Nora Doone (Toronto, ON:
Harry H. Sparks, 1907) and I'm
Jealous of You (Toronto, ON:
Harry H. Sparks, 1908).
- I added two new waltzes to my essay on
ragtime waltzes: Patocka
Waltzes (1901) (by Egbert
Van Alstyne), available here,
and Sweetheart's Time Waltz
(1903) (by Howard Whitney), available here.
- I added a scan of an original color
copy to the February 1917 edition of That
Tuneful Yankee that I
recently bought on EBay, available here
in my essay on
ragtime composer George L. Cobb. I
hope to shortly digitize the entire
February 1917 edition.
- I tried to improve the quality of the
first few pages of Edward Winn's Winn's
Practical Method of Popular Music:
Rag and Jazz Piano Playing,
available here,
since the original version loaded a few
weeks ago had some blurry pages.
Update
#2: What's New as of October 1, 2006
[top]
I added a new essay on ragtime composer George
L. Cobb, available here. This
essay includes brief biographical
information on Cobb along with a complete
listing of all of his known compositions
(including compositions that have not
previously been included in most listings
of his work). Included are (free) links to
the sheet music for 124 rags, marches,
waltzes and other instrumental
compositions and 77 songs by Cobb, for
total of 201 compositions.
- I added what I believe to be the final
(and extremely rare) volume/edition of Ragtime
Review (Vol. 4, No. 2,
February 1918) available here
in the
chapter setting out the digitized
full-text of the Ragtime
Review. Most
bibliographic entries in library
catalogues for the Ragtime Review
show the magazine continuing to only
January 1918 and I have been
unable to obtain any references to a February
1918 edition; hence, I think the
February 1918 version included on my
site is extremely rare. This edition
includes Happy Sam Rag (1918)
by Oscar Chilton and The
Cactus Rag (1916) by Lucien
Porter Gibson, both available here
in Chapter 3
of the essay
on Axel Christensen (these two
rags are also available in Rare Rags). I
also added to my essay on Christensen's
Ragtime Review the front cover of
the March 1918 edition of Walter Jacobs'
Melody magazine (available here)
which explains the take over by Jacobs
of the Ragtime Review.
- I added a chapter here to
the essay on Axel
Christensen that discusses his
ragtime piano teaching methods. Included
in this chapter is the full-text of two
of his teaching manuals: Christensen's
Rag-Time Instruction Book For Piano
(circa 1909) (available here,
36 pages) and Axel Christensen's
New Instruction Book for Rag and
Jazz (circa 1920) (available
here,
48 pages). I discuss these manuals
briefly, in addition to also discussing
other ragtime instruction manuals. I
also include digitized versions of
ragtime manuals by Edward Winn, Scott
Joplin and H.J. Beckerman.
- I used some of the ragtime
compositions published in the two Axel
Christensen manuals above to replace
existing compositions (since the
versions in the two manuals where in
much better physical condition). The
compositions replaced include: Irmena
Rag (available here),
Old Black Joe (available here),
Pathetic Rag (available here),
Ragtime Wedding March
(available here),
Reinette Rag (available here),
and Webster Grove Rag
(available here).
A special thanks goes to Rob Crausaz
for providing a number of scans of
covers to Christensen-related rags and
selected issues of the Ragtime
Review.
- I updated some biographical
information on Joseph
F. Lamb based on a phone call that
his daughter, Patricia Lamb Conn, was
kind enough to make to me on the evening
of September 7, 2006, after she reviewed
the initial version of the essay. I
corrected the name of Lamb's sisters
(correctly, Anastasia and Katherine) and
the fact that he had a brother, James. I
also corrected the birthdate of Joe
Lamb, Jr., being July 23, 1915 as well
as correcting the wedding day of Lamb to
his second wife Amelia Collins (the
correct date being November 12, 1922).
In addition, I had left out mention of
Patricia Lamb Conn's other brother,
Robert, born November 20, 1927.
- I added Sunflower Tickle (A
Rag) (1908) (by Dolly
Richmond, a pseudonym for Percy
Wenrich), available here
in Rare Rags.
- I added two pieces of rare sheet music
by Canadian William H. Hodgins:
- A Ragtime Spasm (1899)
(by William H. Hodgins), available here
in Ragtime
Music in Canada and here
in Rare Rags
(although the last page was missing
from the source material; I am looking
to try to obtain a complete version of
this rare piece).
- I added the sheet music and a MIDI
audio file for Maude Gilmore's Peach
Blossoms Rag Two Step
(1910), available here
in Women
Composers of Ragtime. Thanks to Rob
Crausaz for providing the digital
scans of this piece and the MIDI file.
- I added sheet music for the following
compositions by Marie Louka:
- I added the sheet music for the
following cakewalks:
- In addition, I added links to the
sheet music for the following cakewalks
(thanks to Eytan Uslan for pointing out
these titles):
- I added the sheet music for the
following composition: Mignon:
Novelette Two Step (1917)
(by W.C. Powell), available here
in Rare Rags.
- I added the sheet music for the
following song by Canadian ragtime
composer Willie Eckstein: In
Sunny Summertime (words by
T.H. Yull) (1911), available here
and here
in Ragtime
Music in Canada.
- I expanded the essay on Ragtime Waltzes
by analyzing in more detail the
difference between a ragtime waltz and a
mere ragtime-era or Victorian parlour
waltz, giving examples from some of the
more authentic ragtime or syncopated
waltzes. This analysis includes
discussion of the section on ragtime
waltzes from Christensen's
Rag-Time Instruction Book For Piano
(circa 1909).
- I added an entry here
in the essay on Scott Joplin for his
ragtime opera, Treemonisha,
in addition to adding an entry here
for a commercial CD recording of that
opera. I also added the sheet music to
his 1895 song, Please Say You
Will, available here
in my essay
on Scott Joplin and here
in Rare Rags.
- I added the sheet music for Felix
Arndt's Kakuda: One Step
(1914), available here
in Rare Rags.
Thanks to Luigi Ranalli in Italy for
providing a copy of this rare piece.
- I added the piano
sheet music and orchestral parts here
in Rare Rags
for the following British composition: Little Gadabout:
Two-Step Intermezzo (1911) (by Gustave
Colin). Orchestral parts
include music for clarinet,
oboe,
cello,
violin,
and drums.
- I added the following sheet music to Rare Rags:
- A Basket of Roses: A Novelette
(1913) by Fred G. Albers, available here
in Rare Rags
- Old Si's Fiddle (The Tunes He
Used To Play - A Down East Medley)
(1905) by Leslie T. Moore, available here in
Rare Rags
- Twentieth Century March and
Two Step (1900) by J.
Messina, available here
in Rare Rags
- I added the sheet music for the
following ragtime-era waltzes to Ragtime Waltzes:
Update #1: What's New as
of June 29, 2006 [top]
- I added a "classic
ragtime piano" logo on the home page. The
logo was designed by Andy Fielding of
Vancouver, B.C., who himself is a
musician and ragtime pianist and
technical and copywriter. Most Canadians
will be familiar with a ragtime
arrangement that Andy wrote and recorded
for the theme music to the CBC Radio
show called DiscDrive.
The theme is based on the melody to the
classical composition "Fanfarinette" by
Jean-Phillipe Rameau. The show uses a
number of arrangements of this piece,
including a version on the harp, a
version on the synthesizer and so on.
Andy's ragtime version is wonderful (as
is the DiscDrive show itself). You can
listen to DiscDrive over the Internet here
(the host, Jurgen Gothe, plays a variety
of music, commercial-free, ranging from
classical to jazz and including the
occasional rag).
- I added a new essay called “Rare Rags”
which features (free) links to pieces of
rare ragtime sheet music that are not
already in any of the online resources
for ragtime sheet music and which
are not easily found in the standard
print folios of ragtime music. The sheet
music in "Rare
Rags" comes from the other essays
on the site, but I thought it might be
easier to also compile the rarer pieces
in one list. I continue to scour Ebay
for rare ragtime sheet music and
occasionally purchase photocopies of
print sheet music from various libraries
throughout the world. As I obtain copies
of rare rags that are in the public
domain, I will add them to the "Rare Rags"
essay and add entries to this "What's
New" page so that readers know when new
rare rags have been added. To start
with, there are currently 102 rare rags
on this page.
- I added the following pieces of (free)
sheet music that I recently obtained in
print or already had in my collection:
- A Bashful Bachelor: Intermezzo
Two Step (1905) (Lawrence
Ritchie) (available here
in Rare Rags)
- Boomerang Rag (1916)
(George Botsford) (available here
in Rare Rags)
- The New Russian Rag
(1923) (George L. Cobb) (available here
in Rare Rags)
- Noodles (German Rag)
(1906) (Percy Wenrich) (available here
in Rare Rags)
- On The Rural Route
(1917) (Paul Pratt) (available here
in Rare Rags)
- An Operatic Nightmare
(1916) (Felix Arndt) (available here
in Rare Rags)
- Ring Tum Diddie: A Boston Rag
(1912) (Fred Heltman) (available here
in Rare Rags)
- That Eccentric Rag
(1912) (J. Russel Robinson) (available
here
in Rare Rags)
- Abe Olman, Sea Weeds Rag
(Philadelphia, PA: Jos. Morris Co.,
1910) (available here)
- Abe Oleman (sic), Tango Rag
(1914) (Philadelphia, PA: Jos. Morris
Co., 1914) (available here)
- Abe Oleman (sic), The Winter
Garden Rag (Chicago, IL:
Will Rossiter, 1912) (available here)
- I added a link to the sheet music for
The Pippin (Arthur
Marshall) available here
in Food and
Ragtime (a “pippin” is the name of
a variety of apples – there is an apple
on the cover of the music; it is also
related to the word “pips” meaning the
seeds of various fruits) [top]
- I added links to the sheet music on
the following four compositions (the
links were missing on launch day due to
the fact that the quality of the sheet
music was not good enough; I recently
obtained new copies of the music from
the Toronto Reference Library):
- I added a link to the sheet music in Ragtime
Music in Canada for Gentle
Winds Waltz by Lewis Owen,
available here
(it is fairly saccharine).
- I also added links to the sheet music
for the following waltzes to the Ragtime Waltzes
page (these are not ragtime waltzes per
se but merely ragtime-era waltzes):
- Apple Blossoms Waltz
(1911) (Charles B. Brown) (available here)
- Arbor of Dreams Waltzes
(1912) (C.E. Wheeler) (available here)
- Beautiful Lady Valse
(1912) (Egbert Van Alstyne) (available
here)
- Hermosa: Valse (1902)
(Wesley Wells) (available here)
- Lady Elizabeth: Waltz
(1901) (Bertha Metzler) (available here)
- Sapho Waltzes (1890)
(Sol Bloom) (available here)
- Sapphire Waltz (1904)
(Charlie Baker) (available here)
- Scottish Belles Waltzes
(1905) (Fred L. Ryder) (available here)
- Starlight Waltz (s.d.)
(C.S. Brainard) (available here)
- Sun Kissed Roses: Waltzes
(1912) (Nat Johnson) (available here)
- To My Lady Loves Waltzes
(1900) (John H. Davies) (available here)
- Twilight Hours: Waltz
(1914) (Walter Rolfe) (available here)
- Vacation Waltzes
(1914) (Carl Loveland) (available here)
- The Viceroy Tea Waltz
(192?) (Alberto Agrati) (available here)
- The Violet Waltzes
(William H. Myers) (1899) (available here)
- Zenda Waltzes (1895)
(Frank M Witmark) (available here)
- I added links to the sheet music for
the following compositions to Food and Ragtime:
- Apple Blossoms Valse
(1909) (Ralph Weekes) (available here)
- Apple Blossoms Waltz
(1911) (Charles B. Brown) (available here)
- A Cup O' Tea: Japanese
Intermezzo (1910) (Karl
Lennox) (available here)
- Chestnuts (1906)
(Percy Wenrich) (available here)
- Chewin' the Rag (1912)
(Fred Heltman) (available here)
- Dish Rag: Two Step
(1908) (Richard Goosman) (available here)
- Ida Sweet as Apple Cider:
Foxtrot (1916) (Eddie
Munson) (available here)
- The Viceroy Tea Waltz
(192?) (Alberto Agrati) (available here)
- Arrival of the Mocking Bird:
Characteristic Intermezzo (1904)
(Alan Brown) (available here)
- Bow-Wow: One Step (A Dog-Gone
Good Dance) (1916) (F.
Henri Klickman) (available here)
- Bow-Wow: One Step
(1919) (Wheeler Wadsworth) (available
here)
- The Dance of the Sparrows:
Characteristic (1903) (B.
Richmond) (available here)
- The Frolic of the Elks:
Characteristic Two Step
(1900) (Edmund Braham) (available here)
- Kookooburra Schottische
(1919) (Arthur W. Rooney) (available here)
- Old Faithful: March and
Two-Step (1907) (Abe
Holzmann) (available here)
- Red Raven (1915)
(Charley Straight) (available here)
- Tiger Rag (1917) (Nick
LaRocca) (available here)
- I added a link to the sheet music for
what appears to be another composition
by Abbie A. Ford called Sweet
Recollections: Reverie
(available here
in Women
Composers of Ragtime) but am
somewhat suspicious whether this might
be a different Abbie A. Ford since this
new piece was published/composed 30
years before her other pieces.
- I also added a link to the sheet music
for an additional piece by Bertha
Metzler called Over The
Waters Blue: Barcarole
(available here
in Women
Composers of Ragtime).
- Marie Louka. Cap and Gown
March. Detroit,
MI: Whitney Warner Pub. Co., 1912.
- Marie Louka. Dance of the
Dewdrops
- Marie Louka. Dance of the
Snowflakes
- Marie Louka. Dance of the
Toys. Detroit, MI:
Whitney Warner Pub. Co., 1912.
- Marie Louka. Dancing Dolls:
Waltz
- Louka, Marie. Flowers from
the Dust (1941)?
- Marie Louka. The Hour of
Prayer: Reverie
- Marie Louka. Mission Bells:
Descriptive Tone Poem. Detroit,
MI: Whitney Warner Pub. Co., 1912.
- Marie Louka. Sunset on the
Ocean: Reverie. Detroit,
MI: Whitney Warner Pub. Co., 1912.
In addition, I added a link here
to a
(free) .MP3 1902 Berliner recording by
Arthur Pryor's Sousa Band of Marie
Louka's The Rajah March.
- I increased the total listings of
compositions for Blanche M. Tice,
available here
in Women
Composers of Ragtime, by adding
listings for three waltzes and two waltz
songs: Swells and Bells,
Valse Angeline, Valse
Divine: Hesitation, When
I Come Back To Erin (I Am Coming For
You): Waltz Song, and When
the Sun Sets in Ireland: Waltz Song.
- Mollie King, If My Dream Were
True (song) (lyrics by
Verner J. Cavers) (Montreal, QC:
Harmonic Pub., 1907)
- Mollie King, Niscona
(song) (lyrics by Clifton H. Wright)
(Montreal, QC: Royal Music, 1905)
- Mollie King, The Village Barn
Dance (Montreal, QC:
Delmar Music, 1909)
- Louise V. Gustin. Carmelita:
A Mexican Dance (Whaley
& Royce) (British Library)
- Louise V. Gustin. In Love's
Garden (British Library)
- Louise V. Gustin. Let's Trot:
Fox Trot. New York, NY:
Jerome H. Remick, 1915 (British
Library)
- Louise V. Gustin. Maids of
Paradise: Waltzes (Whaley
& Royce) (British Library)
- Louise V. Gustin. Waltz With
Me Waltzes. New York, NY:
Jerome H. Remick, 1915 (British
Library)
- James B. Glionna, At A
Niagara Camp Meeting: Cake Walk
And Two Step (Toronto, ON:
Canadian American Music, 1903) (also
added here
in Cakewalks
in the Ragtime Era)
- James B. Glionna, Everett
Waltz (Toronto, ON: Whaley
& Royce, 1899) (also added here
in Ragtime
Waltzes)
- James B. Glionna, Insignificant
Thompson: A Swell Cake Walk And
Daisy Two Step (Toronto,
ON: Harry H. Sparks, 1900) (also added
here
in Cakewalks
in the Ragtime Era)
- James B. Glionna, Marquette:
Two Step (Toronto, ON:
Anglo-Canadian Music Pub. Ass., 1897)
- Tuxedo Cat Rag (Bill
Edwards)
- I added the following entries here
in Ragtime and
Food (no sheet music, just
bibliographic entries for now):
- Some Chocolate Drops (Bonbons
de Chocolat): Trot and One Step
(1914) (Fred Irvin and Will Vodery)
(Available in print at University
of Colorado)
- A Barn Dance Shuffle: A Rag
Time Cake Walk (1902)
(Wade Harrison) (Available in print at
University
of Colorado)
- Easy Pickin’s: Characteristic
Dance and Cake-Walk (1902)
(Egbert A. Van Alstyne) (Available in
print at University
of Colorado)
- Razzle Dazzle: Characteristic
Cake Walk & Two Step
(1902) (Harry Von Tilzer) (Available
in print at University
of Colorado)
- Way Down South: Characteristic
March and Cake Walk (1902)
(Paul Rubens) (Available in print at University
of Colorado)
- I updated information on Canadian
ragtime composer David Lee.
- Wherever I mention in one of my essays
the total number of pieces available, I
updated the number, where applicable,
wherever I added new titles included in
this update. I also improved the "meta
tags" on each of my pages to improve
search results.
- A special thanks to
Luigi Ranalli for his comments on the
launch of the site and for pointing out
several additional pieces included in
this first update.
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