by Ted Tjaden

Welcome to my classic ragtime piano website. This site includes lots of information on ragtime piano with links to ragtime sheet music in the public domain. In addition, I hope to shortly add a number of live .MP3 ragtime recordings by me of featured rags.

Set out below are links to short essays I have written on various themes related to ragtime piano. At each link is detailed information about the topic, along with links to the sheet music for rags that are in the public domain.

There is also a separate page of sources of print and online ragtime sheet music and other ragtime-related information. Although there are only fourteen active links below, I hope to eventually add more essays along with various .MP3 recordings.

• Axel Christensen: The Czar of Ragtime and His Ragtime Review
  (featuring a digitized full-text version of the Ragtime Review, 1914 to 1918)

• Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era
  (featuring Mississippi Rag (1897) by William Krell and other cakewalks and earlier rags)

• Food and Ragtime
  (featuring The Oyster Rag (1910) by Tom Lyle and other food-related rags)

• Joseph Lamb: Ragtime's Quiet Sensation
  (featuring Bohemia Rag (1919) and other rags by Joseph Lamb)

• "On the Pike" with the Rags of James Scott
  (featuring Frog Legs Rag (1906) and other piano rags by James Scott)

• The Rags of Charles L. Johnson
  (featuring Golden Spider Rag (1910) and other piano rags by Charles L. Johnson)

• The Rags of George L. Cobb
  (featuring The Midnight Trot (1916) by George L. Cobb and 200 other rags and songs)

• Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags
  (featuring piano rags on the theme of animals)

• Ragtime in Quebec
  (featuring the Rags and Compositions of Jéan-Baptiste Lafrenière)

• Ragtime Music in Canada
  (featuring Some Rag (1910) by Willie Eckstein and other piano rags by Canadian composers)

• Ragtime Waltzes
  (featuring Springtime of Love Valse (1919) by James Scott and other waltzes from the ragtime era)

• Rare Rags
  (featuring hard to locate ragtime sheet music)

• Scott Joplin - The King of Ragtime Writers
  (featuring the Maple Leaf Rag (1899) by Scott Joplin and other Joplin rags)

• Women Composers of Ragtime
  (featuring Hoosier Rag (1907) by Julia Lee Niebergall and other rags written by women)

I hope to add additional essays in the very near future on the following ragtime composers or topics: Eubie Blake, Percy Wenrich, Harry J. Lincoln, novelty piano, the ragtime revivalists, ragging the classics, and tango influence in ragtime music.

 

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