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

[Ferruccio]

This is great !!
Thank you so much for this huge amount of Tsfasman !!

Best wishes, Ferruccio (amateur pianist)

[alfor]

Thank you!

Indeed for amateur pianists!

I have an LP with „real“ Tsfasman compositions, which are partly of a Gershwin-like sound and quality.
Some are with singers and it is really an amazing experience when you - in a piece that exactly sounds like the best western jazz - suddenly hear somebody singing in Russian!!

[tobyjj]

Hello All,

Yes indeed, thanks echoed -
very pleased and grateful to see this posting, thank you, Total Chaos.

And Alfor, that is a very teasing post of yours - I would love to access your LP - (I pretend to be nothing other than an amateur pianist !), but you tantalise with your obscurity - WHERE IS IT ?? - (Please )

regards,
tobyjj

[caostotale]

Dance Collection of Soviet and International Composers, for piano, vol. 9 (1966)

compiled by Merab Partskhaladze

Alexander Naumovich TSFASMAN - Because I Have You... (slow foxtrot)
Benyaminas Yokubo GORBULSKIS (Lithuania) - A Carefree Minute (foxtrot) (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... bih%3D1020 )
Anatoly Yakovlevich LEPIN (Latvia) - Evening in Moscow, from the movie 'Give me a Book of Complaints'
Yevgeny Lvovich ROKHLIN - Silhouettes (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... bih%3D1020 )
David Lvovich LVOV-KOMPANEETS - By the Sea
Merab Alexeyevich PARTSKHALADZE (Georgia) - At Peak Hour (foxtrot)
Boris Yuryevich DOLINSKY - Stars Go Out (slow foxtrot) (no bio available)
Ilya Mikhailovich SHAKHOV - The Cheerful Krakowiak (no bio available)
Valery Alexandrovich GROKHOVSKY - Vacation (foxtrot) (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... bih%3D1020 )

Dance Collection of Soviet and International Composers, for piano, vol. 9 (1966).pdf

(nms)

[tobyjj]

Thanks again,

regards
tobyjj

[Ferruccio]

Thank you, Caos !!

[Superbilly]

Been a couple months since I checked in. My understanding is that the Billy Mayerl music is now out of copyright and in the public domain, is that correct? If so, I really haven't seen much of an effort to collect and scan it at places like IMSLP (the few uploads I've seen have been indefinitely detained pending review).

[tobyjj]

Hello Superbilly,

I'm not sure I want to answer anything about copyright - but what exactly are you looking for?

Apart from some of Mayerl's x8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 piano works and some collaborative transcriptions I am fairly confident that this site has accumulated the most comprehensive consolidated collection of Mayerl's works (apart, perhaps from the bmSociety itself) - the one piece that I think we never tracked down, (but I would need to check), is a piece called "Maids of Honour" - very elusive.

Happy to post anything specific that you're looking for, but I suspect its already here.

Regards,
tobyjj

[Jim Faston]

Hello Superbilly,

I'm not sure I want to answer anything about copyright - but what exactly are you looking for?

Apart from some of Mayerl's x8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 piano works and some collaborative transcriptions I am fairly confident that this site has accumulated the most comprehensive consolidated collection of Mayerl's works (apart, perhaps from the bmSociety itself) - the one piece that I think we never tracked down, (but I would need to check), is a piece called "Maids of Honour" - very elusive.

Happy to post anything specific that you're looking for, but I suspect its already here.

Regards,
tobyjj

It was included in a collection entitled British 20th-century piano music Volume 1 published by Thames in 1998:

Contents: Valse / Ernest Farrar -- Quasi sarabande / C. Hubert H. Parry -- Prelude in G sharp minor : (Toccata) / Charles V. Stanford -- Dance memories / Eugène Goossens -- Choral and choral prelude / Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Drifting / Arthur Benjamin -- Canzona / Herbert Murrill -- Eclogue / Walter Leigh -- Maids of honour / Billy Mayerl -- Michael Finnigan / arr. Trevor Hold.

A number of libraries hold copies. Copies of the original from 1957 can found at the British Library and Trinity College in Dublin

[tobyjj]

Hi Jim,

I don't know how you find out things like that, but thanks -

next question would be - Does anyone have said publication and willing to scan it for upload here; or at least the Maids of Honour piece ?

regards,
tobyjj