The Rags Thread

[tobyjj]

More
This one as an example only of composer's style - apologies for any forum-posting rules breaches

Gordon, Tom R - Winter Dream.pdf

this one - conventional

Scheu, Archie W - Jack Frost (Ragtime 2 Step).pdf

this one - obviously not a rag -

Warren, George William - Jack Frost Galop.pdf

and plenty more ...
rgrds,
tobyjj

[tobyjj]

some mistletoe,
not strictly rag - but never mind

Mayerl B - Mistletoe.pdf

Osborne, Nat - I'd Rather Be Kissed Neath The Mistletoe Bough.pdf

ttfn

rgrds,
tobyjj

[fhimpsl]

Dear Luigi,

I've searched through everything and found three additional items from your wants list. Unfortunately the Mullen "A Southern Rhapsody" is missing the second page of music. I was unable to find my copy of the Db "Silence And Fun" despite much searching. Hopefully these will help!

All Best,

Frank

Mullen, Charles E. - A Southern Rhapsody (Incl. pg.2 missing).pdf

Mullen, Charles E. - Levee Rag (Rossiter).pdf

Steventon, Roy - Alhambra Rag.pdf

[fhimpsl]

Here for rag enthusiasts is a very rare one out of Cincinnati ... "Hot Tamales" by one Iowen M. Lawson. Also attached the midi file of the piano roll which is Connorized roll No. 960. I first heard this roll in the mid 1960s and fell in love with it. The sheet music took over 30 years to turn up!

All Best,

Frank

Lawson, Iowen M. - Hot Tamales Rag.pdf

Lawson, Iowen M. - Hot Tamales Rag - Connorized Roll 960.mid

[gigiranalli]

Here for rag enthusiasts is a very rare one out of Cincinnati ... "Hot Tamales" by one Iowen M. Lawson. Also attached the midi file of the piano roll which is Connorized roll No. 960. I first heard this roll in the mid 1960s and fell in love with it. The sheet music took over 30 years to turn up!

All Best,

Frank

Dear Frank,
Thank you very much for posting these fantastic ragtime rarities!!!
“Hot Tamales Rag” is an eccentric and exciting rag which I’ve never heard before and I’m very grateful for your help with “Levee Rag”, “Alhambra Rag”, “St. Louis Society Dance” (interesting piano roll!) and “The Glide Away Rag”!!!!
Indeed I’ve never seen Mullen’s great “Southern Rhapsody” before…THANKS A LOT!!!
The Pianophilia members may be interested to know that “The Levee Rag” is a great rag and also (possibly” the first to use the “three-over-four” pattern in a ragtime publication: this is the pattern you see in the third and fourth measures of the intro of this ragtime masterpiece, a common feature used in some of the most popular rags ever, like “Black And White Rag” or “Twelfth Street Rag”.
The second strain of Levee Rag starts with a riff later used in the popular “Cannon Ball Rag” and is a New Orleans ragtime medley entitled “Easy Money”, which includes the 2nd and 3rd strains of Levee and then also the second strain of Turpin’s “St. Louis Rag”.
Here you can find the scores:
"Easy Money": http://digital.library.msstate.edu/cgi- ... =23879.pdf
"The Cannon Ball": http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl//lill ... -201021-02
That popular riff was also remembered by New Orleans ragtime pianist Dink Johnson, who used it for his catchy “Take Your Time”, a great rag that deserves to be heard and enjoyed…so here’s Dink’s recording!
Then, since Charles Mullen is a ragtime master, I’d like to post a great recording of another rag of his: here’s a bouncy hot performance of “Silence And Fun Rag” played by Benjamin Intartaglia. That’s a hand-played midi file and I hope it’s OK for Benjamin if I post it.
And then of course a recording of “The Levee Rag” played by Elliott Adams.
I’ve just finished to transcribe and edit a piano roll (kindly given to me by Frank Himpsl in midi format) that is a rag, a very rare one, that both Frank and I are looking for in its published form.
Since I haven’t found the sheet music of this piece yet, I thought it would have been nice to learn it from the piano roll, which was impossible to transcribe faithfully since it’s a heavily arranged one…
So here’s an arrangement I wrote from the piece (I also include a midi taken from my transcription for evaluation). I tried to be close to the piano roll and I’m not sure if I edited it correctly.
Anyway here it is: the title is “Round-Up Rag” and that’s my Christmas present to Frank Himpsl with thanks for having helped me with all these great rags!
I wish everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2012!!!!

ROUND-UP RAG (arranged by Luigi).pdf

round-up rag.MID

Dink Johnson - Take Your Time (Johnson).mp3

Benjamin Intartaglia - Silence And Fun (Mullen).mid

Benjamin Intartaglia - Silence And Fun (Mullen).mid

Elliott Adams - The Levee Rag (Mullen).mp3

[fhimpsl]

Dear Luigi,

You're an absolute magician...the score you transcribed of "Round Up Rag" plays so perfectly it must be virtually identical (if not considerably better) than the original sheet music!!! I can't thank you enough for transcribing this beautiful, lively rag from the nickelodeon roll. The second theme is one of the happiest things I've ever heard in ragtime; just gorgeous! I couldn't imagine a nicer Christmas morning present - thank you so very much!

Thanks also for all the other goodies you posted for us all, rare and wonderful recordings! The Dink Johnson recording is actually a song composed by Joe Jordan, published by the old Gotham-Attucks publishing company around ca. 1905. I know this only because I use to have the sheet music (maybe I still do, I don't know!) But the song title, "Take Yo' Time" is the same Johnson plays ("...take yo' time, friend o' mine, take yo' time...)

I had forgotten what a great tune Mullen's "Levee Rag" is!! Elliott Adams' performance really puts the joyful,early ragtime syncopations out there with style and elegance. And also great thanks to yourself and to our mutual friend Benjamin Intertaglia, who recorded a rousing, very authentic sounding version of "Silence And Fun." Wonderful stuff!

I am so honored that you inscribed the transcription of "Round-Up Rag" to me! That has earned a permanent place on the piano (I can't stop playing it!!!) I am so very glad you liked the rags which I posted...please know that I will always do everything possible to come up with rare scores for you from my collection if I have them, and that goes for all members of PianoPhilia as well. Ragtime is a great musical heritage to be enjoyed by everyone; certainly not locked up within a few tightly guarded collections. What you share you keep forever....

Luigi, with great thanks I wish you and your family a happy and healthy (and musical!) 2012! Keep syncopating!

Your Friend,

Frank

[gigiranalli]

Dear Frank,
I'm so glad you enjoyed the "Round-Up Rag"!!
I hope I can find the sheet music of that soon.
I have several piano roll transcription projects o start. Unfortunately I had to leave "Let's Try It" by Kortlander, at least for a while, because there are rather difficult points...but at least I tried. Maybe in the future I'll re-try with it.
For the moment I'm thinking about some fantastic piano rolls by Egbert Van Alstyne, Phil Goldberg, Felix Arndt and Lewis Muir of which I have scans. I'll soon post something new on the forum about piano roll transcriptions
You're right about "Take Your Time" being a Joe Jordan song. Of course that didn't have the passage a-la-Levee Rag but I also remember the "friend of mine take your time" part. Thanks for having pointed that out because I had forgotten about the song....I have it in a folio and will pos it soon for everybody.
For the moment here are other recordings by Dink Johnson.
The great Brun Campbell knew Dink and remarked that he played in the style of Missourian ragtime (so, for a ragtime purist like Brun, Dink was able to play well).
I hope you'll enjoy Dink's great versions of James Scott's "Grace And Beauty Rag" and "Las Vegas Stomp" (here Dink clearly steals from Ford Dabney's "Oh! You Devil") and then there's also another great rag entltied "Indian Rag": although there's a song by Don Bestor entitled "That Indian Rag", I don't think that's the same number...
Speaking of "Las Vegas Stomp", I found that it was written on paper!! Unfortunately I have troubles in getting a copy of the manuscript for copyright issues...
I see if I can get it somehow anyway....
Then, speaking of Walter Gustave Haenschen, a St. Louis ragtime pianist of the 1910s who was also good friend of Scott Joplin, here are two rags he composed, "The Rambler" and the later "Poison Ivories", and then also two recordings of him from 1916 (with drums by T.T. Schiffer)!!!
I think that these "Sunset Medley" (introducing "A Bunch Of Blues") and "Country Club Medley" ("The Rambler" sounds quite in line with this piano style) are among the best piano ragtime recordings of the Teens!
"A Bunch Of Blues" is a fine blues medley (and the Haenschen recording starting with it and then finishing with Babes In The Wood is even beter!) and the sheet music can be found here: http://130.74.92.141/harris/MUM00682_016.pdf#view=Fit
I hope you'll like the Gus Haenschen and Dink Johnson tracks!
Luigi

Dink Johnson - Grace and Beauty.mp3

Dink Johnson - Indian Rag.mp3

Dink Johnson - Las Vegas Stomp.mp3

Gus Haenschen - Country Club Medley (1916).mp3

Gus Haenschen - Sunset Medley (1916).mp3

Haenschen, Gus; Akst, Harry - Poison Ivories.pdf

Haenschen, Gus & Beyer, Arthur - The Rambler.pdf

[fhimpsl]

Dear Luigi,

What a fantastic group of recordings! I'll write more on this very soon, but I see that you need the sheet music to Dink Johnson's "Las Vegas Stomp," and I wanted to post that right away. More ragtiming to come!

All Best,

Frank

Johnson, Dink - Las Vegas Stomp.pdf

[gigiranalli]

Dear Luigi,

What a fantastic group of recordings! I'll write more on this very soon, but I see that you need the sheet music to Dink Johnson's "Las Vegas Stomp," and I wanted to post that right away. More ragtiming to come!

All Best,

Frank

Dear Frank,
I'm speechless....I didn't imagine that anybody had that piece!!! THANKS SO MUCH!!!!!!
I'll write more later....Thanks!!!
Luigi

[benjamin75]

Fear Ragtime Friends!

Thank you a lot for your last contributions....!
A great pleasure to discover and listen to!!!!!!