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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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