School of Syncopation - Jazz, Stride, Novelties & the Like

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... a few more by piano-roll great Adam Carroll (I posted his "Whirlaway" separately some time back)...

Carroll, Adam - Nanette.pdf

Carroll, Adam - Nocturnal Suite.pdf

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Copeland, Les C. - Ivoryland - Novelty Piano Solo.pdf

DeRose, Peter & Savino, Domenico - Diamond Dust.pdf

DeRose, Peter & Snyder, Bill - Fountain In Central Park.pdf

Daly, Sefton - Colour Scheme.pdf

[Dani_area_51]

Thank you so much Frank, for this huge bulk of sheet music that keeps coming and coming and that seems never ending...So many I can't play them all
You're being like your title now, Pianomaniac !!!!!!

[fhimpsl]

Hi Dani_area_51,

You're more than welcome. I guess I was born a pianomaniac, so the title fits pretty well!! There will be more...the novelty, ragtime and blues material is nearly endless in scope. I'll keep 'em coming, that's a promise!

All best,

Frank

[tobyjj]

Frank,
I've been too stunned to reply (and too busy downloading !). This is a fantastic contribution. Many of these titles have been on my list of music to chase down for ages now and many had reached the status of being almost mythical as to their existence. I never expected to actually get hold of them. Thank you very much indeed.

Incidentally, one of Reginald Forsythe's more popular pieces was called "Dodging a Divorcee" (I think). I don't know if that slipped through your scanning (or if anyone else has it). Maybe, it'll turn up in your future posts, which I personally (and selfishly) hope will never end !!

Gratefully,
tobyjj

[fhimpsl]

Hi tobyjj,

I'm glad you like the posted music scores, and have a lot of fun playing through them. I do have Reginald Foresythe's "Dodging A Divorcee" and am posting it here. Throughout this project I've been scanning only original music sheets and skipping over photocopies with intention to fill in the gaps later. Some of my photocopies are going on 50 years old and are in some cases badly faded. Fortunately though the appended three Foresythe solos were still dark enough to make decent scans.

Enjoy!

Frank

Foresythe, Reginald - Dodging A Divorcee.pdf

Foresythe, Reginald & Hines, Earl - Deep Forest.pdf

Foresythe, Reginald - Bit - A Novelty For Piano.pdf

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...concluding now what I have on Reginald Foresythe, these scans are all from old photocopies and vary in quality, but in general should prove serviceable....

Foresythe, Reginald - Full Moon - Lunette.pdf

Foresythe, Reginald - Lament For Congo.pdf

Foresythe, Reginald - The Duke Insists.pdf

Foresythe, Reginald - The Greener The Grass.pdf

[WCosand]

Thanks for all the interesting scans!

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Reginald Foresythe's most ambitious work (to my knowledge) was "Pub Crawl - Phantasy For Piano & Orchestra." It was never published to my knowledge but I was able to find the unpublished piano score manuscript at the Library of Congress. This was back at a time when the photocopy machines ("nickel grabbers" I used to call them) were always low on toner, and gave no choice of paper size...one size fits all...always too small. So needless to say adding many years of fading on top of this, the copy I have is a bit hard to read, but still generally useful with a little musical know-how. I darkened the scans as much as possible with available software.

Foresythe, Reginald - Pub Crawl Phantasy Pno-Orch - Pno Score (Unpubl)_Part1.pdf

Foresythe, Reginald - Pub Crawl Phantasy Pno-Orch - Pno Score (Unpubl)_Part2.pdf

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Carr, Jerry - Caprice Moderne.pdf

Carr, Jerry - Manhattan Nocturne.pdf

Effros, Bob & Wall, Phil - Cornfed!.pdf

Emmerich, Bob - Zig Zag Rag.pdf