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Hi tobyjj,

I have the Paul Pratt material also, but only in the original manuscript form. It sounds like Luigi may have some typset copies, which certainly would be a lot easier to read. So I'll await his return and see what's what.

In the meantime, more rags!

All Best,

Frank

Onward:- regards,
tobyjj

Onward:- rgrds,
tobyjj

Dear Frank,Tobyjj, Benjamin and everybody,
I'm back.
Before starting talking about music there's something important and sad that I'd like to mention.
I read in another forum some very sad news: Mike Montgomery has recently passed away.
He was a great piano roll and ragtime expert and a great pianist.
I know that he was a good friend of Frank and so please Frank accept my deepest sympathy.
There aren't many videos of Mike Montgomery playing the piano and I think he only recorded a couple of discs (as far as I know), I'll add here a link to a recent video of him playing a ragtime medley (video posted by Adam Swanson):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=619VHzDkipo
Speaking of ragtime manuscripts by Paul Pratt, here I post the other ones I know.
These were discovered by Terry Parrish and typeset by Tom Brier.
About "The Aeroplane Rag", I didn't remember it correctly. The part that has strong similarities with "Fluff" is just the first strain, not the whole rag.
Rob Crausaz, a ragtime expert and dear friend of mine, had sequenced midi files of "Fluff" and "The Aeroplane Rag", so you can hear how they sound.
Here's the link to his website:
http://crausaz.tripod.com/ragmidis.htm
Enjoy the music!
Luigi

Hi everybody,
today I'd post a couple of "blue rags", like the great Brun Campbell used to call them, rags that have some blues in them.
I think that one of the earliest examples of blue rags I've seen in publication is the beautiful "One O' Them Things", fortunately included in a ragtime folio published by Dover.
Another great blue rag is "Blue Note Rag" posted by Frank some days ago, a favorite of mine.
But it's really too bad that the publishing houses and arrangers of the time didn't care much about that blue flavour in ragtime, that is much present in the piano playing of the ragtime pianists of the period but not so much in the generally simplified, trivialized and washed out sheet music publications.
Here I post "Oh! Oh! Oh!" (Hypochondriac Rag) by Victor Smalley and Anthony Maggio.
Anthony Maggio here is reusing the main strain of his earlier rag, "I Got The Blues" (1908), and that's the "blue" part of this piece.
The other piece is "Cradle Rock", quite popular, a not so common published clue of an early boogie woogie style that has been always played, since the ragtime era.
Enjoy the music
Luigi

P.S.
The music I'm posting is intended to be shared on Pianophilia, and FOR FREE.
personally I wouldn't like to see the scores I'm posting offered for sale on other websites (that's grave-robbing!) or re-posted on other websites that advertise private economic activities of any kind.
Thanks!

gigiranalli wrote: P.S.
The music I'm posting is intended to be shared on Pianophilia, and FOR FREE.
personally I wouldn't like to see the scores I'm posting offered for sale on other websites (that's grave-robbing!) or re-posted on other websites that advertise private economic activities of any kind.
Thanks!

I think I speak for the whole admin team in saying that we strongly support your view on this matter.
Indeed No4 of our board rules says:
"4. Not sell for profit or knowingly pass to others who sell for profit, any files downloaded from Pianophilia."

I take the opportunity to say a wholehearted "Thank you" to Frank, Luigi and all other contributors in this thread and in the novelty thread. So far this kind of music has not really been my cup of tea. But I learned a lot in these threads and am glad now to be able to learn to know a lot of music which is new to me.

All the best,
Henning