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Additional Research Topics
by Ted
Tjaden
Set out below is a
list of additional research that I would
like to complete, time permitting.
1) Axel
Christensen: The Czar of Ragtime and His
Ragtime Review:
- Locate hard copies
of the Ragtime Review,
scan them, and replace the copies on my
site here (which were
digitized from microfiche).
2) Cakewalks
in the Ragtime Era:
3)
The Interplay Between
Classical Music, Ragtime and Jazz:
- This essay mentions that it is a work in
progress so I would hope to continue to
expand content and go into more depth on
some of the classical music composers.
4) Female Composers of
Ragtime:
- Conduct more
research on some of the leading female
composers of ragtime, including finding
and scanning more of their rare or
hard-to-find compositions.
5)
Food
and Ragtime:
6) Joseph
Lamb: The Humble Ragtime "Sensation":
- Visit the archives
at Kitchener / Waterloo, Ontario
(formerly Berlin, Ontario) and at St
Jeromes University to check for archival
material on Joseph Lamb (who was at that
time known as Josef Lamb)
- Visit the City of
Toronto archives to research Harry H
Sparks
7) "On
the Pike" with the Rags of James Scott:
- Locate and buy a
personal copy of Scott DeVeaux &
William Kenney, eds, The Music of
James Scott (Washington, DC:
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992).
8) The
Rags of Charles L Johnson:
9) The
Rags of George Linus Cobb:
- Locate and
scan any of the few remaining public
domain compositions by Cobb that I
have yet been unable to source.
10) Ragtime at the Zoo:
Animal Rags:
11) Ragtime Music in Canada:
12) Ragtime Music in Québec:
- Review the
digitized copies of Le Passe Temps
more closely to find additional ragtime
era compositions from Quebec.
13) Ragtime Waltzes:
14) Rare
rags:
- Many of the rare rags listed on this
page are from my own collection. I will
continue to add hard-to-find source
ragtime sheet music to this page,
including those from online sources that
are otherwise hard to find using normal
search techniques.
15) Scott
Joplin – The King of Ragtime Composers:
- I will periodically
monitor the literature for any new
developments regarding Scott Joplin,
although there is not necessarily not a
lot of new research on Joplin, with the
second edition of Berlin's book being
the most recent, authoritative resource
on Scott Joplin – see Edward Berlin, King
of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era,
2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2016) [book details from
publisher's website].
New
areas of research:
- Ernesto Nazareth
and Brazilian piano tango music: I
hope to write a new essay on Ernesto
Nazareth and Brazilian piano tango
music, including providing links to
the various free sources of his sheet
music, including at Ernesto
Nazareth.com and Ernesto
Nazareth 150 anos.
- Novelty piano songs:
I hope to write a new essay on novelty
piano songs, including those composed
by Zez Confrey, Charley Straight, Roy
Bargy, Pauline Alpert, Rube Bloom, Max
Kortlander, and Billy Mayerl.
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