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by Ted Tjaden

This site was launched on June 6, 2006.

Set out below on this page will be any major additions to the site since that time.

Questions or comments about this site can be emailed to me at "owner" then "at" (using the symbol) and then "ragtimepiano.ca." 

• Update #34: What's New as of February 24, 2025
  
• Update #33: What's New as of February 9, 2025
  
• 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

• Boogie Woogie Blues. Axel Christensen. Hollywood, CA: The Christensen Method, 1927.
• Axel Christensen's Instruction Book for Jazz and Novelty Piano Playing (circa 1927).
• Keyboard Klassic. Robert Marine (New York, NY: Robert Marine, Inc, 1928).

• Blooming Belle of Old Kentucky: Cakewalk & Two-Step. Detroit, MI: Harry Graul, 1899.

• Baker, Edythe. Blooie-Blooie (1920).
• Berger, Minnie. One More Rag (arranged by Arthur Campbell). St Louis: Stark Music Co, 1909.
• Best, Marvel Doris. Oak Leaf Shuffle. Des Moines, IA: Koch Bros Printing, 1912.
• Bird, Harriet. Evolution March. Kansas City, MO: Jones Publishing Co, 1902.
• Boniel, Bessie. Harlequin: Intermezzo Two Step (1906).
• Brown, Fleta Jan. The Party That Wrote "Home Sweet Home". New York: M Witmark & Sons, 1908.
• Burgess, Mattie Harl. "Wiggy Waggy" Rag (arranged by William H Tyers). New York: Leo Feist, 1910.
• Cocroft, Nellie Weldon. Kute Kids. Thomasville, GA: CC Cocroct Music Co, 1909.
• Cook, Sarah. Restless Rag: Two Step. Chicago, IL: Victor Kremer, 1908.
• Dawson, Irma. Cotton Belt Rag. Galveston, TX: Thomas Goggan & Bros., 1916.
• Day, Ella Hudson. Quality Rag. Dallas, TX: JP Juckolls, 1909.
• De Haven, Rose. Rose De Haven's Devil March. New York: Ted Synder Co, 1908.
• Franklin, Irene & Bert Green. I Want to be a Janitor's Child. New York: Leo Feist, 1911.
• Goben, Hattie. The Teddy Bear Rag. Dallas, TX: Hattie Goben, 1907.
• Gooding, Grace. The Fadettes Call: Rag One Step Trot. New York: Jerome H Remick, 1914
• Gustin, Louise. Anniversary Two Step. Detroit: Jerome H Remick, 1900.
• Kamman, Effie. D*rkey Doings: A Bl*ckville Frolic. New York: M Witmark & Sons, 1899.
• Karns, Verdi. Blufftonian Waltzes. Mt. Clemens, MI: Remer Music House, 1900.
• Kenny, Margaret. Loretta: March Two-Step. New York: Shapiro-Remick & Co, 1903.
• Knippenberg, Ruth. That's Telling (words by Adelyn Knippenberg). Milwaukee, WI: Central Music Co, 1910.
• Koninsky, Sadie. Love Tales: Waltzes. Troy, NY: Koninsky Music Co, 1909.
• Koninsky, Sadie. Uncle Sam's Boys. New York: Koninsky Music Co, 1909.
• Lawnhurst, Vee. Twentieth Century Blues. New York: Jack Mills, 1923.
• LeBoy, Grace. Everybody Rag With Me: One Step. New York: Jerome H Remick, 1915.
• McKray, Ethel. Dreamy Rag: Two-Step. New York: Globe Music Co, 1912.
• McPherran, Florence. Dottie Dimple March and Two Step. Chicago, IL: Sterling Music Co, 1907.
• McPherran, Florence. Fi-Fi: Novelette. Chicago, IL: Sterling Music Co, 1907.
• Noll, Flora. Frivolous Rag. Sedalia, MO: AW Perry &  Sons, 1918.
• Saile, Clara. The Yellow Moccasin: March & Two Step. Cincinnati, OH: The Razall Co, 1904.
• Stanfield, Bertha. The Cabbage Rag. Joplin, MO: Spiker & McMillan, 1910.
• Stanfield, Bertha. That Touchy Kid Rag. Baxter Springs, KS: Bertha Stanfield, 1912.
• Stanfield, Bertha. Uncle Zeke's Medley Rag. Baxter Springs, KS: Bertha Stanfield, 1912.
• Stanfield Dempsey, Bertha. America’s "Pinch Hit" March. Joplin, MO: The McMillan Music Co, 1919.
• Stone, Annette. The Dischord Rag. New York: Popular Music Co, 1914.
• Story, Pauline. The Free Silver March. Cincinnati, OH: Pauline B Story, 1896.
• Story, Pauline. Rambling Sam: Ragtime March, Two Step (1899).
• Story, Pauline. Sweet Persimmons: March and Two Step. Cleveland, OH: The Currier Music Co, 1903.
• Tice, Blanche. Jolly Widower: March & Two Step. Sioux City, IA: Blanche M Tice, 1910.
• Tice, Blanche. Just a-Thinkin', Dear, o' You (lyrics by J Will). Sioux City, IA: Blanche M Tice Music Pub. Co, c1918.
• Tice, Blanche. La Verne Waltzes. Sioux City, IA: Blanche M Tice Music Pub. Co, 1916.
• Tice, Blanche. Maybe. Sioux City, IA: Blanche M Tice Music Pub. Co, 1919.
• Tice, Blanche. My Violet (lyrics by J Will). Sioux City, IA: Blanche M Tice Music Pub. Co, 1919.
• Tice, Blanche. Nestlin' Time (lyrics by RM McCabe). Sioux City, IA: Blanche M Tice Music Pub. Co, 1913.
• Tice, Blanche. The Night, the Stars and You (lyrics by J Will Callahan). Sioux City, IA: Blanche M Tice Music Co, c1915.
• Tice, Blanche. Only a Memory of You (lyrics by J Will Callahan). Sioux City, IA: Blanche M Tice Music Pub Co, c1918.
• Tice, Blanche. Swells and Belles: A Beautiful Set of Concert Waltzes. Sioux City, IA: Blanche M Tice, 1911.
• Tice, Blanche. That September Day (lyrics by J Will Callahan). Sioux City, IA: Blanche M Tice Music Co, c1916.
• Tice, Blanche. Valse Divine: Hesitation. Sioux City, IA: Blanche M Tice, 1915.
• Williams, Mamie. Snipes: Two-Step Characteristic. Kansas City, MO: JW Jenkins, 1909.
• Williamson, Carlotta. Osceola: March Two Step. Boston, MA: The Colonial Music Publishing Co, 1906.
• Williamson, Carlotta. The Pick**inny Cake Walk: Two Step.  Boston, MA: The Colonial Music Publishing Co, 1901.
• Williamson, Carlotta. Wild Flower Rag. Boston, MA: The Colonial Music Publishing Co, 1910.

• Brown Sugar. Harry Barris.  St Lous, MO: Larry Conley Inc, 1926.
• Sweet Persimmons: March and Two Step. Pauline Story. Cleveland, OH: The Currier Music Co, 1903.

• Dear Little Home Sweet Home. Charles L Johnson. Chicago: Forster Music, 1916.
• I Like the Name of Dixie. Charles L Johnson. Kansas City: Chas L Johnson Music Co, 1917.
• I'll Be Waiting for You. Charles L Johnson (with James Royce Shannon). Chicago: FJA Forster Music Publisher, 1915.
• Love and Roses Waltz. Charles L Johnson. Chicago: Harold Rossiter Music Company, 1913.
• Our Yesterdays. Charles L Johnson (as Herbert Leslie). Chicago: Forster Music Publisher, 1918.
• Sly Old Moon. Charles L Johnson. Chicago: Forster Music, 1911.
• Woodland Waltzes. Charles L Johnson. Kansas City, MO: Chas L Johnson & Co, 1910.

• Camel Walk Blues. Ebon Gay. St Louis, MO: Stark Music Company, 1919.
• Chicken Walk: Eccentric Fox Trot. Chicago: Will Rossiter, 1917.
• Snipes: Two-Step Characteristic. Mamie Williams. Kansas City, MO: JW Jenkins, 1909.

• Barnes, AE. Fern Leaf Waltzes. St Louis, MO: Stark Music Co, 1906.   
• Haines, Chauncy. Gertana: Spanish Waltzes. Detroit: Shapiro Remick, 1904.
• Karns, Verdi. Blufftonian Waltzes. Mt. Clemens, MI: Remer Music House, 1900.
• Koninsky, Sadie. Love Tales: Waltzes. Troy, NY: Koninsky Music Co, 1909.
• Johnson, Charles. Love and Roses Waltz. Chicago: Harold Rossiter Music Company, 1913.
• Tice, Blanche. La Verne Waltzes. Sioux City, IA: Blanche M Tice Music Pub. Co, 1916.
• Tice, Blanche. Swells and Belles: A Beautiful Set of Concert Waltzes. Sioux City, IA: Blanche M Tice, 1911.
• Wrennick, Russell. Columbine Syncopated Waltzes. Indianopolis, IN: Warner C Williams, 1915.

• Barbara A Cooke Sheet Music Collection (University of St Francis)
• Compukats

• A Rag-Time Drummer: March & Cake Walk. Charles Kuebler. Erie, PA: Brehm Bros, 1901.

• Buffalo Dish Rag. Bernisne Clements. New York: FB Haviland, 1910.

• That Cherry Rag. Edna Chappell Tiff. Washington, DC: H Kirkus Dugdale, 1914.

• Heavy on the Catsup: A Rip-Roaring Rag. Lewis F Muir (New York: FA Mills, 1913).

• Salted Peanuts. Sydney Chapman (Troy, NY: Koninsky Music, 1911)

• Scramble Rag. Louis Mentel (Cincinnati: Mentel Bros, 1911).

• Tambourines and Oranges: Fox Trot. Frank Henri Klickmann. Chicago: Frank K Root & Co, 1915.

• Wild Grapes. Clarence Jones (Cincinnati, OH: Emerson Music, 1910).

• A Lucky Duck. Howard Whitney. New York: M Witmark & Sons, 1903.

• Magpie Rag. Malvin M Franklin. New York: Joseph Stern, 1908.

• Mosquito Dance. Charles N Daniels. Kansas City, MO: Western Music Publishing Co, 1900.

• Rattlesnake Rag. Ethwell Hanson. Neenah, WI: Ethwell Hanson, 1917.

• Red Mouse Rag. Wilbur Piper. Sidney, OH: HR McClure Company, 1910.

• Squirrel Food Rag. RG Gradi. Cincinnati, OH: Olympic Music, 1916.

• Tom Cat Rag. Harry Weston. New Orleans, LA: Music Shop, 1912.

• Anticipation Waltz. Zez Confrey.

• Bertram Waltzes. Miner York. St Louis: Stark Music, 1901.

• In Holland: A Dutch Waltz. Clair Van Lynden. St Louis, MO: Buck & Lowney, 1915.

• Night of the Ball: Waltz. Charles Wellinger. Hamilton, ON: C Wellinger, 1913.

• Poodles & Pugs: Waltzes. Archie Scheu. Chicago: Monroe Pub Co, 1906.
  

• Skating Girl: Valse. Thomas Osborne Roberts. Paris: Almar, 1911.

• Sparkling Waters: Valse Brilliants. Zez Confrey. Boston: Boston Music Co,1928

• Valse Divine. Blanche Tice.

• Valse Mirage. Zez Confrey.

• Valse Pensive. EJ Stark. St Louis: Bahnsen Music Co, 1913.

• A Classy Rag. Ethel Stuart Philips (arranged by Clarence Woods). Fort Worth, TX: Ethel Stuart Phillips, 1915.

• Dance of the Crickets: Dance Characteristic. Barbara F. Kleinbeck. Dayton, KY: B.F. Kleinbeck, 1913.

• D**** in the Wood Pile: Cakewalk. Barbara F. Kleinbeck. Cincinatti, OH: Union Music Co., 1900.

• Gumbo Trot. Broekhoven, F. & C. Rittiner (arranged by E. Grouzet). New Orleans: The Orchestra, 1914.

• Tango Tea (Dance). Ed A. Hallway. St. Louis: Stark Music Co., 1913.

• Doucet, Clement. Chopinata: Fantasie musciale sur les motifs de Chopin. Paris: Sam Fox, 1927 (source: Archived version of Ragtime français).

• Klickmann, Henri. The Dream Waltz (from Tales of Hoffman Baracolle). Chicago: Frank K Root, 1914 (from Ragtime Waltzes).
  

• Lafrenière, Jean-Baptiste. Valse-Lanciers (sur des airs d'opera). 1903 (from Ragtime Waltzes).

• 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)

• Dance of the Crickets: Dance Characteristic. Barbara F. Kleinbeck. Dayton, KY: B.F. Kleinbeck, 1913.

• Ostrich Walk. Nick La Rocca & Larry Shields. New York: Leo Feist, 1917.

• Owen, Lewis. In Memory of Muir, op. 22. Toronto, ON: HH Sparks, 1909.

• Wellinger, Charles. That Captivating Rag. Hamilton, ON: C Wellinger, 1914.

• Westbrook, William. A Handful of Maples Leaves. Toronto, ON: HH Sparks, 1901.

• Beaudry, Wilfrid. Carnaval: 1910: pas de deux / two-step in Montréal qui chante (vol 2, no 18) (30 janvier 1910) at 8.

• Hyam, BL. It is Love (Waltz song). Montréal, QC: Delmar Music, 1909.

• MacDonald, Wilson. True Love Can Never Die. Montréal, QC: Delmar Music, 1910.

• 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

• Schubert, HW. You and I and the Moon: A Love Story. Montréal, QC: Delmar Music, 1910.

• Warman, Cy. Back to Montréal. 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 françaises 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 françaises 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 françaises 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 françaises 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.
  

• De Ballet
• Follow the Birds to Victoria, B.C.
• Got a Date at the Bee-hive in the Berkeley Hotel
• It's Easter Again
  
• It's O.K. by Me — If it's O.K. by You
• Kitty, Sweet Kitty Casey (to his wife)
• McGill-McGill-McGill
• The Red Cross (dedicated to the Canadian Red Cross)
• Strollin’ on the Mountain
• Sweet Kitty Casey
• When You Come to the [End of the Day] (fragment)
• Win the War
• With a Song in My Heart and a Tear in My Eye
• The World Situation

Ragtime Waltzes

I added links to the sheet music for the following compositions in my essay on Ragtime Waltzes:

• Morrison, Will. Way of the World (Syncopated Waltzes). Indianapolis: Warner C Williams, 1913.

• Axel Christensen. Nobody's Business. Chicago: Forster Music, 1923.
• Axel Christensen. Teasing the Klassics. Chicago: Forster Music, 1923.
• Axel Christensen. Syncophonic No 1. Chicago: Christensen School, 1925.
• Axel Christensen. Syncophonic No 2. Chicago: Christensen School, 1925.
• Axel Christensen. Syncophonic No 3. Chicago: Christensen School, 1925.
• Axel Christensen. Syncophonic No 4. Chicago: Christensen School, 1925.
• Axel Christensen. Syncophonic No 5. Chicago: Christensen School, 1925.
• Bernard Brin and Al Newman. Can't Think of the Name. Seattle, WA: Melody Shop, 1922.

• Easy Pickin’s: Characteristic Dance and Cake-Walk. Egbert A Van Alstyne. Chicago: Will Rossiter, 1902.

• Ham Bones. Homer Denny. Cincinnati, OH: Joseph Krolage Music, 1912.
• Some Chocolate Drops (Bonbons de Chocolat): Trot and One Step. Fred Irvin and Will Vodery (New York: Jos W Stern Co, 1914.

• Black Canary. Harry Austin Tierney. New York: Ted Snyder Company, 1911.
• Blue Jay Rag. Frank Wooster. St Louis. MO: Frank Wooster, 1907.
• Krazy Kat. Ben Ritchie. New York: Ben Ritchie, 1911.
• Oh, You Bear Cat Rag. Fred Watson & Lewis F. Muir. NY: Fred Helf Company, 1910.
• Oh You Tigers: Rag Two Step. Anna DeVarennes. Bay City, MI: Anna DeVarennes, 1909.

• 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.

• 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
  

• 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.

• 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
  

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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. That Ragtime Mel-o-dy (With Apologies to Rubenstein's Melody in F). Chicago: Star Music Publishing, 1910.
• George Fairman. Syncopated Butterfly. New York: Jack Mills Inc., 1922.
• George Fairman. Syncopated Minuet. New York: Jack Mills Inc., 1922.
• George Fairman. Syncopated Polish Dance. New York: Jack Mills Inc., 1922.
• George Fairman. Silence 'n Fun. New York: Jack Mills Inc., 1923.
• George Fairman. Syncopated Scarf Dance. New York: Jack Mills Inc., 1923.
• George Fairman. Minuet In Blue. New York: Fairman Music Pub. Co. Inc., 1928.

• George Gershwin. Ragging the "Traumerei" (lyrics by Leonard Praskins) (1912/1913) [listen to performance].

• Bert Grant (with Cecil Arnold). Russianova. New York: Jack Mills Inc., 1923 [listen to performance by Frederick Hodges]

• Henry Lange. Classicana: A Syncopated Panorama. New York: Waterson Berlin & Snyder Co., 1923.
• Henry Lange. Cho-Piano. New York: Jack Mills, 1922.
• Henry Lange. Symphanola. New York: Jack Mills, 1922.

• George Fairman. Bugavue Rag. Marion, OH: William Dowler, 1902 [listed in Jasen and Jones 2000: 348]

• Julius Lenzberg. Merry Whirl: One Step (1915) [listen to performance].

• Axel Christensen. Syncophonic No. 4. Chicago: Christensen School, 1925.

• The Interplay Between Classical Music, Ragtime, and Jazz

• Lange's "Flower Song" in Ragtime. Axel Christensen. Chicago: Christensen School, 1909.
• Shepherd's Lullaby for Left Hand Alone. Marcella Henry. Pittsburgh, PA. Theo. Presser Co, 1911.
  
• Take It Easy. Axel Christensen. New York, NY: Jack Mills, 1924.
• That Contagious Rag. Edward Mellinger. St Louis, MO: Stark Music Company, 1913.

• Fun on the Levee: Cake Walk. Charles L. Johnson. Chicago: FJA Forster Music Publisher, 1917.
  
• Hester on Parade. Charles L Johnson. Kansas City, MO: J.W. Jenkins Sons Music Co., 1899.
• In Dahomey: Cakewalk Smasher. Percy Grainger (circa 1903-1909).
• Le petite nègre: cakewalk. Claude Debussy (1909).
• The Sousa's Cakewalk. G. Wittman (1902).
• The Vienna Rag: Cake Walk á la "Strauss." Paul Rubens. New York: Jos. W. Stern & Co., 1905.
  

• Broncho Billy. Nell Wright Slaughter. Dallas, TX: Bush & Gertz, 1914.

• The Candy. Clarence Jones. Cincinnati, OH: John Arnold, 1909.

• Eatin' Chocolates. T Fred Henry. Des Moines, IA: Midland Music Co, 1903.

• Fried Chicken Rag. Ella Hudson Day. Galveston, TX: Thomas Goggan & Brothers, 1912.

• Mashed Potatoes. Calvin Lee Woolsey. Braymer, MO: Calvin Lee Woolsey, 1911.

• Ole Virginny Barbecue. JE Andino. New York: Andino & Ruehl, 1899.

• Paprika: "Hot Stuff" March Two Step. Luella Lockwood Moore (Detroit, MI: Grinnell Bros, 1909.

• Piano Salad. George Cobb. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1923.

• Pork and Beans. Theron C Bennett. Chicago, IL: Victor Kremer, 1909.

• Red Peppers: Two Step. Imogene Giles (Quincy, IL: Giles Bros, 1907).

• Too Much Raspberry. Sydney King Russell. Berkeley, CA: Sydney King Russell, 1916.

• Who Got The Lemon? Buck Dance Rag. Marcella Henry, Peru, IL: Marcella Henry Pub. Co, 1909.

• 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.

• Onion Skin Rag. William Albright. [listen to performance]

• A Black Smoke: Dance Characteristic and Two Step. Charles L Johnson. Kansas City, MO: Carl Hoffman Music Co, 1902.

• The Blue Jay and the Squirrel: Woodland Chatter. Charles L Johnson. Kansas City, MO: Carl Hoffman Music Co, 1902.

• Fun on the Levee: Cake Walk. Charles L Johnson. Chicago: FJA Forster Music Publisher, 1917.

• Hester on Parade. Charles L Johnson. Kansas City, MO: J.W. Jenkins Sons Music Co., 1899.
  

• Lovey Dovey March & Two Step. Charles L Johnson. Kansas City, MO: Charles L Johnson, 1907.

• Monkey-Bizniz: Novelty for Piano. Charles L Johnson. Chicago: Forster Music Publisher, 1928.

• Peek-A-Boo Rag. Charles L Johnson. Chicago: FJA Forster Music Publisher, 1914.

• Pink Poodle One Step. Charles L Johnson. Chicago: FJA Forster Music Publisher, 1914.
  

• Starlight Serenade. Charles L Johnson. Chicago: FJA Forster Music Publisher, 1918.

• Warwick Club March Two-Step. Charles L Johnson (as "Charlie Johnson"). Kansas City, MO: JW Jenkins' Sons, 1898.
  

• The Blue Jay and the Squirrel: Woodland Chatter. Charles L Johnson. Kansas City, MO: Carl Hoffman Music Co, 1902.

• The Bounding Buck. Henry Lodge. New York: M Witmark & Sons, 1914.

• Broncho Billy. Nell Wright Slaughter. Dallas, TX: Bush & Gertz, 1914.

• Bugs Rag. Nina Kohler. Sherman, TX: Nina Kohler, 1913.

• Dog on the Piano. Ted Shapiro. New York: Jack Mills, 1924.

• Fire Fly: Intermezzo. Anita Owen. New York: Jerome H Remick, 1909.

• Glad Cat Rag. Will Nash. Chicago, IL: Pioneer Music, 1905.

• Glory of the Cubs. Arthur Marshall (lyrics by F. R. Sweirngen). Chicago: H. & F. R. Sweigen, 1908.

• Hippo Hop: Fox Trot. Oswald B. Wilson. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1920.
  

• The Honey Bee. Mamie Williams. Kansas City, MO: Williams Publishing Co, 1902.

• Monkey-Bizniz: Novelty for Piano. Charles L Johnson. Chicago: Forster Music Publisher, 1928.

• My Pet. Zez Confrey. New York: Jack Mills, 1921.

• Oh You Turkey! A Rag Trot. Henry Lodge. New York: Waterson, Berlin & Synder, 1914.

• Le pas du serpent: danse nouvelle (genre de one step et rag time). Enrique Arenas. Paris: Georges Parmentier, 1914.
  

• Pink Poodle One Step. Charles L Johnson. Chicago: FJA Forster Music Publisher, 1914.

• Rats!!! M Kendree Miller. Dallas, TX: Bush & Gerts, 1914.

• The Rattler Rag. Susie Wells. Henrietta, TX: Susie Wells, 1912.

• Skunk Hollow. Tom Brier (2001).

• Snuggle Pup. George L Cobb. Boston, MA: Walter Jacobs, 1929. Listed in TAR. Copyright registration date: 4 March 1929.

• Who Let the Cows Out? Charles Humfeld. St Louis, MO: Howard & Browne, 1910.

• California Porcupine Rag. William Bolcom (1968). Music available in William Bolcom: Complete Rags for Piano (Rev. ed) (New York: Edward B. Marks Music Company, 2000) [listen to performance by the composer].

• Elephant Street Rag. Hal Isbitz.  Available in 12 Piano Rags by Hal Isbitz [listen to MIDI recording].

• Ragtime Turtle Dove. William Albright. From William Albright, Grand Sonata in Rag (Scott Joplin's Victor, Ragtime Turtle Dove, Behemoth Two Step) (1968) [listen to performance by Ruben Reyes] [view sheet music] [view Albright's handwritten score].

• The Days Gone By: Waltz Song. George L Cobb. Buffalo, NY: HC Weasner & Co, 1925.

• Dance of the Sun Rays: Valse Impromptu. Will Morrison. Indianapolis: WB Morrison, 1909.

• Je te veux. Erik Satie (1897).
  

• 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).
  

• The Silent Film Sound & Music Archive has digitized most of the issues of the following ragtime magazines:

• The Tuneful Yankee (1917)

• Melody Magazine (1918-1930)

• The Cadenza (1897-1923)

• Jacob's Orchestra Monthly (1915, 1918, 1920)

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.

• Jasen, David & Trebor Jay Tichenor. Rags and Ragtime: A Musical History. New York: Dover Publications, 1978
  [Internet Archive version].

• A Bran Dance Shuffle: A Rag Time Cake Walk. Wade Harrison. Nashville, TN: H.A. French, 1902.

• Drake’s Cake Walk. Edwin F Kendall. Brooklyn, NY: Drake Brothers Company, 1909.

• Johnson, Charles L. The Girl for Me (lyrics by Wm. R. Clay). Kansas City, MO: Chas L Johnson, 1911.

• Cobb, George. Mammy's Golden Wedding Day (words by Jack Yellen). Cleveland, OH: Charles I Davis, 1914.

• Cobb, George. Hero of the Game: March. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1914.

• Cobb, George. When You're Five Times Sixteen (words by Jack Mahoney). New York: Leo Feist, 1916.

• Cobb, George (as "Leo Gordon"). Youth and You Waltz (with Thomas Allen). Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1917.

• Hall, R.B. (revised by George Cobb). The Commander: March. Walter Jacobs, 1919.

• Cobb, George. Doll Days: Novelette. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1923.

• Cobb, George. The High Brows March. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1923.

• Cobb, George. Mist of Memory Waltz. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1923.

• Cobb, George. Morning Kisses Waltz. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1923.

• Cobb, George. The New Russian Rag. Chicago: Will Rossiter, 1923.

• Cobb, George. Piano Salad. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1923.

• Cobb, George. Slumber Song (instrumental). Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1923.

• Cobb, George. The American Broadcast March. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1924.

• Cobb, George. Cortege of the Cyclops. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1924.

• Cobb, George. Dance of the Satyrs. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1924.

• 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. Puddle Ducks: March Grotesque. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1924.

• Cobb, George. Spooks: Eccentric Novelty. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1924.

• Cobb, George. Summer Furs (A Syncopated Classic: Scarf Dance Chaminade). Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1924.

• Cobb, George. Chromatic Capers. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1925.

• Cobb, George. Dance of the Maniacs. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1925.

• 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. The Lion Tamer: Galop. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1926.

• Cobb, George. "Old Ironsides": March. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1926.

• Cobb, George. Power and Glory: Processional March. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1926.

• Cobb, George. Remembrance. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1926.

• Cobb, George. Cubistic Rag. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1927. 

• Cobb, George. Lindy: Youth with the Heart of Gold (with Norman Leigh). Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1927.

• Cobb, George. Procrastination Rag. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1927.

• Cobb, George. The Tipster: Eccentric March. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1927.

• Cobb, George. Blue Egypt. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1928.

• Cobb, George. Snuggle Pup. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1929.

• 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.

• Blue Jay Rag. Wooster, Frank. St Louis. MO: Frank Wooster, 1907.

• Oh You Turkey! A Rag Trot. Henry Lodge. New York: Waterson, Berlin & Synder, 1914.

• Rabbit's Foot. Cobb, George L. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1915.

• The Lion Tamer: Galop. Cobb, George L. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1926.

• Beaudry, Wilfrid. 1909: pas de deux / two-step. Québec: Ls R Beaudry, éditeur: en vente à Montréal chez Dupuis Frère, 1909.

• Beaudry, Wilfrid. J'ai connu le secret du bonheur: valse chantée (words by R Beaudry). Montréal: Éditions Radio, 1926.

• Eckstein, Billy. Montreal, Montreal, Montreal. Montreal: Billy Eckstein, 1951.

• Giroux, Alcide. Exhibition March. Montréal: The Gay Stores, 1920.

• Giroux, Alcide. Laurencia: Marche Two-Step. 1918.

• Giroux, Alcide. Rapidement: Scherzo. 1918

• Giroux, Alcide. Souvenir: polka. 1918.

• Giroux, Alcide. Théodora: valse. 1918.

• Spencer, Herbert. The Wreck of the “Julie Plante” (words by William Henry Drummond). Montréal: Delmar Music, 1907.

• Blake, Charlotte. My Lady Laughter: Waltzes. New York: Jerome H Remick, 1908.
  

• Stokes Hawley, Nelly. In Love's Net: Waltzes. Jerome H. Remick & Co., New York, 1908.

• I checked all links and fixed any broken ones, particular for deep links to sheet music in the Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection and the Charles Templeton Sheet Music Collection (MSU) who appear to continue to lack stable URLs over the last several years.

• I added a link to the Silent Film Sound & Music Archive in online sources of ragtime sheet music. On that site was Charles L Johnson's Picture Show Music No 2, music I was not aware of, so I added a link to Charles L Johnson's Picture Show Music No 2 in my essay on Charles L Johnson.
  

• In Food and Ragtime, I added links to the following two food-related rags:
  

• Hot Chocolate Rag. Malvin M Franklin & Arthur Lange. New York: Joseph W Stern, 1909.

• Saucy Tobasco. Fred Jackson. New York: AL Van Hoesen, 1901
  

• 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.
  

• I have checked every page and every link on this site, correcting any broken links and making minor improvements, where warranted.
  

• Sheet music for the following piece was added here to Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era and here to Rare Rags:

• The Black Crows: Cake Walk and Two Step. Raymond Miller. Philadelphia, PA: Welch Wilsky, 1899  [view sheet music]

• Sheet music for the following piece was added here to Women Composers of Ragtime and here to Rare Rags:

• 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]

• 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.
  

• Sheet music for the following piece was added here to Ragtime Music in Canada:

• That Whistling Rag. Jospeh Foley. Thorold, ON: Joseph M Foley, 1912 [view sheet music]

• Sheet music for the following piece was added here to Women Composers of Ragtime and here to Rare Rags:

• National Rag. Ethel Schwartz. New Orleans, LA: Ethel Schultz, 1907 [view sheet music]

• I also added the following piece here to Women Composers of Ragtime:

• Shiftless Sam: March Two-Step. Carlotta Williamson. Boston, MA: The Colonial Music Publishing Co, 1904 [view sheet music]

• Sheet music for the following pieces were added to The Rags of Charles Johnson:

• 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]

• Sheet music for the following pieces were added to Food and Ragtime:

• 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]

• Supper Club. Harry Carroll. New York: Jerome H Remick, 1917 [view sheet music]

• Sheet music for the following piece was added to Ragtime in Quebec, Ragtime Music in Canada, and Rare Rags:
  

• Saibo: danse caractéristique. Alcide Giroux. Lowell, MA: EL Turcot, 1916 [view sheet music]

• Sheet music for the following piece was added to Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era and Rare Rags:

• Kentucky Rosebuds: Cake Walk or One Step. Arthur Lange. New York: Joe Morris Music, 1915 [view sheet music]

• Sheet music for the following pieces were added to Ragtime at the Zoo:

• 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]

• Chanticleer (Cock a Doodle Doo) Rag / March / Waltz. Richard Grant. Chicago: McKinley Music, 1910  [view sheet music – rag] [view sheet music – march]  [view sheet music – waltz] 

• 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]

• Sheet music for the following pieces were added to Ragtime Waltzes:

• 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.

• Sheet music for the following pieces were added to the Rags of George Cobb:

• 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:

• Ernesto Nazareth.com
• Ernesto Nazareth 150 anos
• Chiquinha Gonzaga.com

I also added a link to the following audio site that contains audio files to a number of ragtime compositions:

• Bill's Audio Reference Library
  

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:

• Echoes From Old Kentucky: March, Two-Step and Cake Walk. Mynnie Dillingham. Sydney: Alberts, 1901, available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era and here in Rare Rags.

Update #19: What's New as of September 19, 2013 [top]

I added the following rag / cakewalk provided by Peter Persoff:

• Rag Knots: A Cake Walk & Two-Step by WC Coleman (Galveston, TX: Thos Goggan & Bro, 1899), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era and here in Rare Rags.

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:

• Lemons And Limes: A Sour Rag by Cora Salisbury (Chicago, IL: Will Rossiter, 1909), available here in Food and Ragtime, here in Women Composers of Ragtime and here in Rare Rags.

• Black Cat Rag by Lina Mumford (Grand Rapids, MI: Mumford & Co., 1901), available here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags, here in Women Composers of Ragtime, and here in Rare Rags.

• Chicken Charlie by Ashley Ballou (Chicago, IL: W.C. Polla, 1905), available here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags and here in Rare Rags.

• Whoa! Nellie! by George Gould (San Francisco, CA: Sherman, Clay & Co., 1925) available here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags and here in Rare Rags.

• Whoa! You Heiffer by Al Verges (New Orleans, LA: Hakenjos, 1904) available here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags and here in Rare Rags.

• 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:

• Armadillo Rag by Clarence F. Brown (Galveston, TX: Thomas Goggan & Brothers, 1911), available here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags and here in Rare Rags.

• Coffee Rag by Lily Coffee (Houston, TX: W.C. Munn Company, 1915), available here in Food and Ragtime, here in Women Composers of Ragtime, and here in Rare Rags.

• Regal Rag by Lily Coffee (Self-published, 1916), available here in Women Composers of Ragtime and here in Rare Rags.

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

• Monkey Doodle: Two Step (1915) by G. Selig (Brooklyn, NY: Hirsekorn & Selig), available here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal 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:

• Chewin' The Rag (Cleveland, OH: The Fred Heltman Co., 1912)

• Clover Blossom Rag (Cleveland, OH: Fred Heltman, 1910)

• Daisy Rag (Cleveland, OH: Sam Fox Pub. Co., 1909)

• Shine or Polish Rag (Cleveland, OH: The Fred Heltman Co., 1914)

• Sunflower Babe: March Two Step (Cleveland, OH: F. D. Heltman, 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

• Goose Step: Novelty One Step (1915) by Eugene Platzmann (New York, NY: Church, Paxson), available here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags

• Clorinda: March Two Step by Chauncey Haines (Toronto, ON: Harry S. Sparks) (s.d.), available here in Ragtime Music in Canada

• 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 pôle 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 pôle 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 added the sheet music to Buxton Slow Drag: A Snail Serenade (1907) by Leonard Lewis, available here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags

• 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:

• Hot Tamale Man! Rag (1909), available here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime and Food

• Lost Rag (1909), available here in Rare Rags

• Nicest, Sweetest, Cutest Rag (1909), available here in Rare Rags

• Piccalili Rag (1909), available here in Rare Rags

• Salt and Pepper Rag (1909), available here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime and Food

• Slippery Elm Rag (1909), available here in Rare Rags

• St. Vitus Dance (1909), available here in Rare Rags

• 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 pôle 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

• Cucumber Rag (1910) by W.C. Powell (i.e., William C. Polla), available here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime and Food

• 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

• Chocolate Creams: A Rag with Flavor (1909) by Warren Camp, available here in Rare Rags and here in Food and Ragtime

• Hot House Rag (1914) by Paul Pratt, available here in Rare Rags

• Lady Slippers Rag (1910), available here in The Rags of Charles L. Johnson

• Rig-A-Ma-Role Rag (1910) by Edwin F. Kendall, available here in Rare Rags

• Ripples Rag (1912) by Camilla Thiele, available here in Rare Rags and here in Women Composers of Ragtime

• 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"):

• In my essay Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags, I added links to:

• 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)

• In my essay on Women Composers of Ragtime, I added links to:

• 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)

• In my essay on Food and Ragtime, I added links to:

• Chili Con Carne: A Hot Rag Two Step (TAR). Elmer B. Griffith. La Fayette, IN: Rinker Music Co., 1911 (available here)

• In my essay on Axel Christensen: The Czar of Ragtime, I updated my links to:

• 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)

• In my essay on George L. Cobb I had listed "Moulin a Cafe" as a possible composition by Cobb. Ragtimer Andrew Barrett kindly pointed out that "Moulin a Cafe" is simply the Sidney Bechet version of Cobb's Rubber Plant Rag (listen to "Moulin a Cafe" on this recording on YouTube.

• 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:

• James Pitt-Payne – Ragtime Treasures (a great source of ragtime MIDI recordings)
  <http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/RagtimeTreasures/>

• Ian Whitcombe’s Radio Show (8pm to 10pm (PST) every Wednesday)
  <http://www.luxuriamusic.com>

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

• Shovel Fish Rag (1907) by Harry Cook, available here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal 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.

• Persian Lamb Rag (1908) by Percy Wenrich, available here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags

• Pigeon Wing Rag (1909) by Charles L. Johnson, available here in Rare Rags and here in the Rags of Charles L. Johnson.

• 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.

• That Dawggone Rag (1914) by Maurice K. Smith, available here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags

• That Sentimental Rag (1913) by Mabel Tilton, available here in Rare Rags and here in Women Composers of Ragtime.

• The Tierney Rag (1913) by Harry A. Tierney, available here in Rare Rags.

• The Turkey Trot (1912) by Ribé Danmark, available here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags

• I added the following George L. Cobb compositions:

• Dancing 'Round The U.S.A. (1915) (with Jack Yellen and Harry Carroll), available here in the Rags of George L. Cobb (provided by Frederick Hodges)

• On the Good Ship Nancy Lee (1913) (words by Jack Yellen), available here in the Rags of George L. Cobb

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.

• I added the following compositions to Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags:

• 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 Skip: Characteristic (1906) by Libbie Erickson, available here in Women Composers of Ragtime and here in Rare Rags.

• I was fortunate to be able to win Max Morath's copy of Candied Cherries (1911) by Lucien Denni, which I added here in Food and Ragtime and here in Rare Rags.

• I added the sheet music to Whipped Cream Rag (1913) by Percy Wenrich, available here in Food and Ragtime and here in Rare Rags.

• I added the sheet music to Under the Southern Moon Two-Step (1910) by Charles Johnson, available here in the Rags of Charles L. Johnson and here in Rare Rags.

• 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."

• Rainbow Waltz (1922) by Harry Jentes, available here in Ragtime Waltzes.

• 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:

• Hula Hula Cakewalk (1899) by Egbert Van Alstyne, available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era. A digital copy of this piece was provided by Peter Persoff.

• Ginger Snaps (1904) by Egbert van Alstyne, available here in Food and Ragtime and here in Rare Rags.

• 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 an Microsoft Access report here on the Ragtime Sources page listing out what I believe is all of the sheet music published by Harry H. Sparks of Toronto, circa 1990 to 1910. The report lists sources of the information ("NLC" means National Library of Canada).

• I added the sheet music to Starlight: Three-Step (1906) by Lorin Morton (published by H.H. Sparks of Toronto) here in Ragtime Music in Canada and here in Rare Rags.

• 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.

• I added the sheet music to Alhambra Syncopated Waltzes (1913) by J. Russel Robinson here in Ragtime Waltzes and here in Rare Rags.

• I added the sheet music cover to Fiddle Sticks (1910) by Florence Wilson here in Women Composers of Ragtime.

• I added the sheet music to Hot off the Griddle: Novelty Cakewalk (1915) by James White here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era and here in Rare Rags.

• I added the sheet music to the following two compositions by George L. Cobb in The Rags of George L. Cobb:

• 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]

• I added the following pieces to my Food and Ragtime page and to Rare Rags; all of these pieces are quite rare:

• 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).

• I added the following piece to my page Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags (it is not necessarily rare:

• 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.

• I added the following two extremely rare ragtime songs by George L. Cobb in  in The Rags of George L. Cobb:

• 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.

• A reader of the site was kind enough to send a scan of the cover to Axel Christensen's Webster Grove Rag, available here (along with the sheet music) in my essay called Axel Christensen: The Czar of Ragtime and His Ragtime Review.

• Alessandro Simonetto of Italy let me know about his great site for MIDI recordings of ragtime compositions of Joplin, Scott and Lamb (among others). I added a link to his site on my Ragtime Sources page.

• Ira Kass also reminded me that I did not have a link on my Ragtime Sources page to the 19th Century California Sheet Music - (Mary Kay Duggan) site.

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 Buffalo Rag (1904) by Tom Turpin (Chicago, IL: Will Rossiter, 1904), available here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags.

• I added The Cat's Pajamas (1922) by Harry Jentes here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags and here in Rare Rags.

• I added Cheerful Blues (1917) by Abe Olman here in Rare Rags.

• 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.

• I added the following "animal-themed" pieces to Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags:

• 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.

• I added the following online sources of sheet to section 3 of my page called Ragtime Sources:

• Indiana State University, Kirk Collection

• New York Public Library Digital Collections

• University of Buffalo, Illuminations: Revisiting the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition of 1901

• University of Washington, Ashford Collection

Update #6: What's New as of December 29, 2006 [top]

• I added a link to the sheet music for George L. Cobb's Bunny Hug Rag (1913) here in my essay on The Rags of George L. Cobb and here in my essay on Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags.

Update #5: What's New as of December 25, 2006 [top]

• I added a link here on my Ragtime Sources page to Eytan Uslan's Authentic Ragtime and Roaring 20's Piano website

• 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.

• I added to Joseph Lamb: Ragtime's Quiet "Sensation" the sheet music to the following two compositions by "Harry Moore", a known pseudonym for Joseph Lamb:

• 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.  

• I added the following piece to the essay on the Rags of George L. Cobb:

• 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.

• I added the sheet music here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era for Charles Dalbey's Freaks of Blackville: Cakewalk and Two-Step as published by Harry H. Sparks of Toronto. I suspect that Harry Sparks republished the piece in Canada with a "typo" in the first name and that the piece is really by Clarence Dalbey, not Charles Dalbey. I say this for three reasons: (i) There exists a similarly named piece by Clarence Dalbey; (ii) Internet searches on "Charles" Dalbey get no relevant hits, whereas Internet searches on "Clarence" Dalby do get relevant hits to a Clarence Dalbey as a bandleader or composer; and (iii) The cover to the piece published by Sparks states "Featured by Sousa's Famous Band" which supports the notion that Dalbey was a bandleader or performed with a band, consistent with the Internet searches on his name.

• I added A Bit O' Sunshine: Novelty Two Step (undated) by Daisy Allen here to Women Composers of Ragtime; I also added it here to Rare Rags.

• I added Cherry: Intermezzo Two-Step (1905) by L. Albert to Food and Ragtime, available here; I also added here to Rare Rags.

• I added the song If I Had All the World Besides I'd Still Want You (1916) by Sadie Koninsky to Women Composers of Ragtime, available here.

• I added the following two waltzes to Ragtime Waltzes:

• Love Dreams (Valse Boston and Hesitation Waltz) (1914) by M. Greenwald, available here.

• In Lovers' Lane Waltzes (1906) by Sadie Koninsky, available here and also available here in Women Composers of Ragtime

• 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.

• I added a link in Food and Ragtime for Abe Oleman's Red Onion Rag (1912), available here.

• I added a link in Food and Ragtime for Margaret Woodin's "Boiled Owl" Rag (1911), available here (I of course realize that boiled owl is likely not very tasty); I also added a link to the piece here in Women Composers of Ragtime.
  

Update #4: What's New as of November 26, 2006 [top]

• I added the sheet music for Charles L. Johnson's Fine and Dandy Two Step (1908), available here in the essay on the rags of Charles L. Johnson.

• I added the following pieces to the essay on the Rags of George L. Cobb:

• 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 Billiken: Two Step Rag (1912) by Ina Shepardson, available here in the essay on Women Composers of Ragtime.

• I added a link to the sheet music for The Flyer (1908) by Frieda Aufderheide, available here in the essay on Women Composers of Ragtime.

• 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.

• With the launch of the new Ragtime page on the Library of Congress's Music, Theatre and Dance website, I was able to update sheet music covers in each of the following essays on this site: Scott Joplin - King of the Ragtime Writers, Joseph Lamb: Ragtime's Quiet "Sensation", and "On the Pike" with the Rags of James Scott. I was also able to add links to the sheet music for a number of Scott Joplin songs, available here, and a link to the sheet music for Joseph Lamb's Gee, Kid! But I Like You, available here. I also added links to the covers and sheet music for Axel Christensen's Ragtime Wedding March (Apologies to Mendelssohn) and Irmena Rag, available on this page.

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 was able to source a complete copy of W.H. Hodgin's 1899 A Ragtime Spasm, available here in my essay on Ragtime Music in Canada and here in Rare Rags.

• 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 the sheet music for Hey Rube: Characteristic March & Two Step (1906) (by Nellie M. Stokes), available here in Rare Rags and here in Women Composers of Ragtime.

• I added the sheet music for Elephant Rag (1913) (by Malvin M. Franklin), available here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime at the Zoo.

• I added Sunflower Tickle (A Rag) (1908) (by Dolly Richmond, a pseudonym for Percy Wenrich), available here in Rare Rags.

• I also added Sweetmeats (1907) (by Percy Wenrich), available here in Food and Ragtime and 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).

• Happy Coons: Danse Negre (1906) (by William H. Hodgins), available here in Ragtime Music in Canada and here in Rare Rags. Thanks to Bob Perry of Australia for providing a digital copy of this 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 a MIDI file for Progressive Rag (by Toby Brown), available here in the essay on Axel Christensen. Thanks to Rob Crausaz for providing the MIDI file.

• I added sheet music for the following compositions by Marie Louka:

• Japanese Fire Dance (1901) (available here in Women Composers of Ragtime and here in Rare Rags)

• The North American: March and Two Step (1904) (available here in Women Composers of Ragtime and here in Rare Rags)

• The Rajah: March and Two Step (1902) (available here in Women Composers of Ragtime and here in Rare Rags)

• As part of my essay on the music of George L. Cobb, I added his Canned Corn Rag (1910) here in Food and Ragtime, here in Rare Rags and also here in the essay on George L. Cobb. Thanks to Andrew Barrett for providing me a copy of this composition.

• I added the sheet music for the following cakewalks:

• Aunt Mandy's Wedding: March and Cake Walk (1899) (by Wm. H. Tyers), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era and here in  Rare Rags. Thanks to Dave Kerr in England for providing a copy of this piece.

• Belle of Richmond: Characteristic March and Cake Walk (1902) (Hans Liné), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era and here in  Rare Rags.

• Belle of the Cake Walk: March (1897) (Lawrence B. O'Connor), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era and here in  Rare Rags.

• In Ole Alabam: Rag Time Cake Walk and Two-Step (1900) (Hortensia Weisman), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era, here in Women Composers of Ragtime, and here in  Rare Rags.

• The Kentucky Cornhuskers: Two Step March and Cake Walk (1899) (by Alfred Rosenberg), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era and here in  Rare Rags.

• Limber Libby: Characteristic March, Two Step and Cake Walk (1900) (by Edward J. Hogben), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era and here in  Rare Rags.

• Ragelies: Two Step or Cakewalk (1899) (by W.M. Fassbinder), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era and here in  Rare Rags.

• In addition, I added links to the sheet music for the following cakewalks (thanks to Eytan Uslan for pointing out these titles):

• Carolina Tar Heel Cakewalk (1898) (Dan Sullivan), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era.

• Coon-ville Festival Cakewalk (1898) (Gus H. Kline), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era.

• Dixie Flyer: Cake Walk and Two Step (1901) (A.E. Henrich), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era.

• A Hot Old Time in Ragtown: Characteristic Cakewalk (1899) (Charles B. Brown), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era.

• Laughing Lucas: Characteristic March and Two-Step (1901) (Florence McPherran), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era (and previously available here in Women Composers of Ragtime).

• Swipesy Cakewalk (1900) (Scott Joplin and Arthur Marshall), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era (and previously available here in Scott Joplin - King of the Ragtime Writers).

• 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 composition: Feather Queen: Indian Intermezzo March and Two Step (1905) (by Mabel McKinley), available here in Women Composers of Ragtime and 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 a scan of the color cover to my own copy of Julia Niebergall's Horsehoe Rag (1911), available here in Women Composers of Ragtime, here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime at the Zoo, in addition to replacing the sheet music with a digital copy of my own personal copy.

• I added a link here under Ragtime Sources to Max Keenlyside's ragtime website, which includes some of his sheet music and recordings.

• I added the sheet music for Pass The Pickles: Tango (1913) by Grace LeBoy here in Women Composers of Ragtime and here in Food and Ragtime 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 sheet music for Cloud Kisser Rag Two Step (1911) by Charles L. Johnson (as "Raymond Birch") here in The Rags of Charles L. Johnson and here in Rare Rags.

• 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:

• Carita Waltz (1909) (by Hubert Nickson), available here in Ragtime Waltzes, here in Ragtime Music in Canada and here in Rare Rags.

• The Dream Waltz (from Tales of Hoffman Baracolle) (1914) by F. Henri Klickmann, available here in Ragtime Waltzes and here in Rare Rags.

• Fortune Teller Waltz (1903) (by Edythe Wilson), available here in Ragtime Waltzes, here in Women Composers of Ragtime and here in Rare Rags.

• Home Sweet Home Syncopated Waltzes (1912) by Warner C. Williams, available here in Ragtime Waltzes and here in Rare Rags.

• Sunshine Waltz (1913) by Will E. Bush, available here in Ragtime Waltzes and here in Rare Rags.

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)

• Black Wasp Rag: A Stinger (1911) (H.A. Fischler) (available here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags and here in Rare Rags).

• Boomerang Rag (1916) (George Botsford) (available here in Rare Rags)

• Dear Blue Eyes: True Eyes (1908) (Joseph Lamb) (available here in Joseph Lamb: Ragtime's Quiet Sensation and here in Rare Rags)

• Fly Paper Rag (1909) (A. Lorne Lee) (available here in Ragtime Music in Canada, here in Ragtime Music in Canada and here in Rare Rags). Fly Paper Rag is listed in That American Rag. The composer, A. Lorne Lee, is apparently a Canadian composer but I cannot find out much information on him. I also added a link to his ragtime song My Own Sweet Eskimo (available here) and also created a list (available here) of his known compositions (in print) using the British Library catalogue and the database on Clifford Ford Publications. I will continue to try to track down more on him and the rest of his known compositions.

• French Pastry Rag (1914) (Les Copeland) (available here in Food and Ragtime and here in Rare Rags)

• Honeymoon Rag (1908) (Abe Olman) (available here in Rare Rags)

• If Love is a Dream Let Me Never Awake (Joseph Lamb) (1908) (available here in Joseph Lamb: Ragtime's Quiet Sensation and here in Rare Rags)

• Intermission Rag (1916) (Charles Wellinger) (available here in Ragtime Music in Canada and here in Rare Rags)

• Little Sticks O' Licorice: Two-Step Rag (1911) (Ray Ruddy) (available here in Food and Ragtime and here in Rare Rags) (thanks to Luigi Ranalli for this piece)

• 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)

• Possum Hall Rag: Cake Walk and Two-Step (1899) (Bennett F. Fritch) (available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era and here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags)

• Ring Tum Diddie: A Boston Rag (1912) (Fred Heltman) (available here in Rare Rags)

• Silver Leaf Rag (1911) (Dan Goldsmith) (available here in Ragtime Music in Canada and here in Rare Rags)

• Teasing the Cat (1916) (Charles L. Johnson) (available here in The Rags of Charles L. Johnson and here in Ragtime at the Zoo and here in Rare Rags)

• That Eccentric Rag (1912) (J. Russel Robinson) (available here in Rare Rags)

• Valse Angeline (1918) (Blanche M. Tice) (available here in Ragtime Waltzes, here in Women Composers of Ragtime and here in Rare Rags)

• Valse Rose (1919) (Lionel Baxter) (available here in Ragtime Waltzes and here in Rare Rags)

• I was in the process of adding PDF versions of my own personal copies of the following 3 compositions by Abe Olman thinking that they were not available online, but it turns out that they are available online via the Charles H. Templeton, Sr., collection of online sheet music at the Mississippi State University:

• 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)

• In addition, I was also going to add a PDF version of my copy of Clover Blossom Rag by Fred Heltman (Cleveland, OH: Fred Heltman, 1910) but it is also available here from the Charles H. Templeton, Sr., collection of online sheet music at the Mississippi State University.

• 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 cross-references between Luella Lockwood Moore and Marion Arlington since Moore apparently used the name Marion Arlington as a pseudonym.

• I improved the quality of the digital scan of the sheet music for Chippewa Rag (1911) (Myrtle Hoy) (available here in Women Composers of Ragtime and available here in Rare Rags)

• I added biographical content to the essay on “Scott Joplin – The King of Ragtime Writers”   [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):

• Waltz Memories (Abbie Ford) (available here in Ragtime Waltzes and available here in Women Composers of Ragtime)

• Those Old Golden Days of Long Ago (Grace LeBoy) (available here in Women Composers of Ragtime)

• Sometime, Somewhere (Anita Owen) (available here in Women Composers of Ragtime)

• Evening Glow Waltzes (W.R. McKanlass) (available here in Ragtime Waltzes)

• 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)

• I added links to the sheet music for the following compositions to Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags:

• Arrival of the Mocking Bird: Characteristic Intermezzo (1904) (Alan Brown) (available here)

• Black Feather: Two Step (1908) (Giblin) (available here and previously also available here in Women Composers of Ragtime)

• 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).

• I updated some of my links to publicly available online versions of Scott Joplin compositions by linking to the Indiana University Sheet Music Collections website.

• I added a sheet music cover (in black and white) to Willie Eckstein's Some Rag (available here in Ragtime Music in Canada)

• I added a link to the sheet music for two additional pieces by Marie Louka called Ocean Spray: Mazurka Caprice (available here in Women Composers of Ragtime) and The Hour of Prayer: Reverie (available here in Women Composers of Ragtime). In addition, I added the following additional entries (no sheet music yet) here in Women Composers of Ragtime for Marie Louka:

• 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. Karmara

• 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.

• I added links to the sheet music here in Women Composers of Ragtime and here in Ragtime Music in Canada for the following three additional pieces by Mollie King, who I assume is Canadian (based on all four of her compositions being published in Canada):

• 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)

• I added the following additional entries (no sheet music yet) here in Women Composers of Ragtime for Louise V. Gustin:

• 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)

• I added the following additional entries (no sheet music yet) here in Ragtime Music in Canada for Canadian composer James B. Glionna:

• 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)

• I added the following entries here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags (no sheet music, just bibliographic entries for now):

• Chicken on the Fence (1905) (Jacob Henry Ellis) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

• Gobbler’s Gambol: The New Turkey-Trot (1913) (Calvin Grooms) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

• Oh, You Bear Cat Rag (1910) (Watson) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

• The Race Horse Rag: Two Step (1911) (Mike Bernard) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

• Tuxedo Cat Rag (Bill Edwards)

• I added the following entries here in Ragtime and Food (no sheet music, just bibliographic entries for now):

• Chop Suey Rag (1915) (Edward Hayne) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

• Dish Rag (1909) (Floyd D. Godfrey) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

• Onions: An Intermezzo Two Step (1909) (Oliver G. Wallace) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

• Pretzel Pete (1906) (Hampton Durand) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

• Scotch Rye: Characteristic Rag (1909) (E.W. Anderson) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

• Scramble Rag (1913) (Louis Mentel) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

• Some Chocolate Drops (Bonbons de Chocolat): Trot and One Step (1914) (Fred Irvin and Will Vodery) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

• Velma Chocolates: Black Rag Two Step (1909) (Ernst Otto) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

• Washington Pie: A Ragtime Piece (1907) (Theodore Morse) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

• I added the following entries here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era (no sheet music, just bibliographic entries for now):

• A Barn Dance Shuffle: A Rag Time Cake Walk (1902) (Wade Harrison) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

• Drake’s Cake Walk (1909) (Edwin F. Kendall) (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) 

• Hot off the Griddle: Novelty Cake Walk (1915) (James White) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

• Kentucky Rosebuds: Cake Walk (1915) (Arthur Lange) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

• Memories of the South: Cakewalk (1903) (Sig. Giorgio Minolti) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

• A Rag-Time Drummer: March & Cake Walk (1901) (Chas. Kuebler) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

• Rastus Johnson’s Cake Walk (1899) (A.E. Bayler) (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)

• Smiling Remus (1901) (E. Raymond Howe) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

• Southern Hospitality (1899) (Arthur Pryor) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

• Syncopated Rags: An Original Cake Walk (1901) (Chas. H. Rose) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

• The Vienna Rag: Cake Walk a la Strauss (1905) (Paul Rubens) (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.
  

• I added information on Virginia Tichenor here in Women Composers of Ragtime.

• I added a link here under Sources to Dan Mouyard's excellent ragtime and stride piano website.

• I added some photos to my online biography.

• 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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