Ragtime rediscoveries : 64 works from the golden age of rag / selected and with an introd. by Trebor Jay Tichenor.

Format:

Musical score

Contributor:

Tichenor, Trebor Jay

Subjects (All):

Piano music (Ragtime).

Genre:

Ragtime music.

Notated music.

Physical Description:

xvi, 196 pages : facsimiles ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, [1979]

Summary:

Ragtime Rediscoveries presents the original sheet music (including covers) of 64 unfamiliar rags of superior musical excellence as well as historical interest. Trebor Jay Tichenor, well-known ragtimer, composer, collector and editor has located the scattered and sometimes unique copies of sheet music, and discussed their musical quality and relevance to ragtime history in his introduction.

Contents:

Ink Splotch Rag (A. Hospe Co., Omaha, 1909) / Clifford Adams 1

Keystone [Key-Stone] Rag (Stark Music Co., St. Louis, 1921) / Willie Anderson 6

Ole Virginny Barbecue (Andino & Ruehl, New York, 1899) / J. E. Andino 9

Worlds Fair Rag (Harvey M. Babcock, San Francisco, 1912) / Harvey M. Babcock 14

A Cyclone in Darktown (Carl Fischer, New York, 1910) / George D. Barnard 18

Policy King (Will Rossiter, Chicago, 1905) / Charles B. Brown 23

Rag-Alley Dream (Will Rossiter, Chicago, 1902) / Mattie Harl Burgess 28

Sympathetic Jasper (John Stark & Son, St. Louis, 1905) / E. L. Catlin 33

Rags and Tatters (Edward Clark, Jr., Poultney, Vt., 1900) / Edward Clark, Jr. 37

Dimples (Colburn-Rendina Music Publishing Co., Kansas City, Mo., 1910) / L. E. Colburn 41

/ Harry L. Cook

The Shovel Fish (Jerome H. Remick & Co., Detroit, 1907, 1908) 46

Slivers (Central Music Co., St. Louis, 1909) 51

Cabbage-Leaf Rag (Marsh & Needles Music Publishing Co., Wichita, 1909) / Les Copeland 56

Eatin' Time (J. W. Jenkins' Sons Music Co., Kansas City, Mo., 1913) / Irene Cozad 59

Possum Rag (O. K. Houck Piano Co., Memphis, 1907 / Geraldine Dobyns 64

Old Virginia Rag (Parker Music Co., New York, 1907) / Clyde Douglass 70

Snowball Babe (Frank G. Fite, Nashville, 1900) / C. Roland Flick 75

The Robardina Rag (Balmer & Weber Music House Co., St. Louis, 1902) [preceded by the cover, only, of the 1904 Thiebes-Stierlin edition] / E. Warren Furry 80

Chicken Chowder (Jerome H. Remick & Co., New York, 1905) / Irene M. Giblin 86

Red Peppers (Giles Bros., Quincy, Ill., 1907) / Imogene Giles 91

The Amazon Rag (Miller-Arnold Publishing Co., Cincinnati, 1904) / Teddy Hahn 96

Queen Raglin [Raglan] (H. A. French, Nashville, 1902) / A. E. Henrich 100

/ Bob Hoffman

A Dingy Slowdown (Duggan-Hoffman, New Orleans, 1900) 105

Dixie Queen (Victor Kremer Co., Chicago, 1906, 1907) 110

Rag Medley (M. Witmark & Sons, New York, 1897) / Max Hoffman[n] 115

Moonshine Rag (Stark Music Co., St. Louis, 1916) / Edward Hudson 121

Who Let the Cows Out? (Howard & Browne Music Co., St. Louis, 1910) / Charles Humfeld 126

Why We Smile (Frank G. Fite, Nashville, 1903) / Charles Hunter 131

A Coon Serenade (Frank G. Fite, Nashville, 1903) / M. H. Irish 135

The Checkerboard (Syndicate Music Co., St. Louis, 1914) / Elijah W. Jimerson [Jamerson?] 139

The Candy (John Arnold, Cincinnati, 1909) / Clarence Jones 144

Swamptown Shuffle (Medbery Music Co., Chicago, 1902) / Harry W. Jones 149

J. J. J. Rag (Pekin Pub. Co., Chicago, 1905) [cover missing] / Joe Jordan 153

That Scandalous Rag (John Franklin Music Co., New York, 1912) / Edwin F. Kendall 156

Dixie Girl (Whitney-Warner Publishing Co., Detroit, 1903) / J. Bodewalt Lampe 161

On Easy Street (In Rags) (Whitney-Warner Publishing Co., Detroit, 1901, 1902) / J. Reginald MacEachron 166

I Got the Blues (A. Maggio, New Orleans, 1908) / A. Maggio 171

Rags to Burn (J. W. Jenkins' Sons Music Co., Kansas City, Mo., 1899) / Frank X. McFadden 174

Virginia Two-Step (Windsor Music Co., Chicago, 1899) / Harry H. Mincer 181

Sour Grapes ("Morrison," Indianapolis, 1912) / Will B. Morrison 185

Trouble (Mentel Bros. Publishing Co., Cincinnati, 1914) / Will B. Morrison & Cecil Duanne Crabb 190

Scrub Rags (Arnold Pub. Co., Cincinnati, 1904) / Arthur W. Mueller 194

Horseshoe Rag (J. H. Aufderheide & Co., Indianapolis, 1911) / Julia Lee Niebergall 199

The Cannon Ball (Victor Kremer Co., Chicago, 1905) / Jos. C. Northup 203

Levee Revels (M. Witmark & Sons, New York, 1898) / William Christopher O'Hare 209

Funny Folks (W. C. Polla Co., Chicago, 1904) / W. C. Powell [Polla] 214

Colonial Glide (Mentel Bros. Publishing Co., Cincinnati, 1914) / Paul Pratt 218

Razzazza Mazzazza (Carl Fischer, New York, 1906) / Arthur Pryor 223

The Pride of Bucktown (Philip Kussel, Cincinnati, 1897) / Robert S. Roberts 227

Walkin' on de Rainbow Road (M. D. Swisher, Philadelphia, 1899) / S. M. Roberts 231

The Eight O'Clock Rush (Sear-Wilson Music Publishing Co., Chicago, 1911) / Bess E. Rudisill 235

Too Much Raspberry (Charles N. Daniels, San Francisco, 1916) / Sydney K. Russell 239

Sleepy Sidney (A. W. Scheu Music Pub. Co., Cincinnati, 1907) / Archie W. Scheu 243

/ James Scott

Ophelia Rag (Stark Music Co., St. Louis, 1910)

Princess Rag (Stark Music Co., St. Louis, 1911) 252

Dixie Dimples (Will L. Livernash Music Co., Kansas City, Mo., 1918) 256

/ Cy Seymour

Panama Rag (Albright Music Co., Chicago, 1904) 259

Holy Moses (Arnett-Delonais Co., Chicago, 1906) 264

Campin' on de Ole Suwanee (Vandersloot Music Co., Williamsport, Pa., 1899) / Lee Orean Smith 268

/ E. J. Stark

Trombone Johnsen (John Stark & Sons, St. Louis, 1902) 272

Billiken Rag (Stark Music Co., St. Louis, 1913) 277

Gum Shoe (Stark Music Co., St. Louis, 1917) 282

Silks and Rags (Whitney-Warner Publishing Co., Detroit, 1901) / Fred S. Stone 285

Calla Lily Rag (Stark Music Co., St. Louis, 1907) / Logan Thane, Nat E. Solomons 292.

Notes:

Includes facsims. of the original illustrated title pages.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0486237761

OCLC:

5782037