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This site was launched on June 6, 2006.

Set out below on this page will be any major additions to the site since that time.

Questions or comments about this site can be emailed to me at owner@ragtimepiano.ca.

Updates:

Update #15: What's New as of December 28, 2008

Update #14: What's New as of September 14, 2008

Update #13: What's New as of June 14, 2008

Update #12: What's New as of March 21, 2008

Update #11: What's New as of November 13, 2007

Update #10: What's New as of November 6, 2007

Update #9: What's New as of September 22, 2007

Update #8: What's New as of May 27, 2007

Update #7: What's New as of April 8, 2007

Update #6: What's New as of December 29, 2006

Update #5: What's New as of December 25, 2006

Update #4: What's New as of November 26, 2006

Update #3: What's New as of October 18, 2006

Update #2: What's New as of October 1, 2006

Update #1: What's New as of June 29, 2006

Update #15: What's New as of December 28, 2008

Andrew Barrett was kind enough to provide digital scans of the following rags, all of which are listed in That American Rag (Jasen and Jones):

Blarney Kisses: Characteristic Irish Rag (1911) by Holmes Travis (Chicago, IL: M.L. Carlson), available here in Rare Rags

Bunny-Boy: A Ragtime Conceit (1912) by Eric C. Gatty (New York, NY: Joseph W. Stern), available here in Rare Rags

Saronoff Rag (1913) by Silvio Hein (New York, NY: T.B. Harms), available here in Rare Rags

Satisfied (An Emotional Drag) (1913) by Bruce Raymond (Theron C. Bennett) (Bennett Kreyer Music), available here in Rare Rags [Note: this is an earlier "self-published" version under his pseudonym before Victor Kremer published under the name of Theron C. Bennett in the more widely known version]

Shock Rag (1911) by Elmer Olson (Minneapolis, MN: A.W. Pinger), available here in Rare Rags

Synchopated Echoes (1920) by Elmer Olson (Los Angeles, CA: W.A. Quincke), available here in Rare Rags

Wild-Fire Rag: A Syncopated Rag (1911) by Holmes Travis (Chicago, IL: M.L. Carlson), available here in Rare Rags

Andrew also provided digital scans of the following ragtime era compositions, including two waltzes by ragtime composers:

Jakerloo Jazz (1919) by Warren Hasting (London: Francis Day & Hunter), available here in Rare Rags

Jazbo: Foxtrot (1915) by Arthur S. Shaw (Chicago, IL: Forster Music), available here in Rare Rags

Monkey Doodle: Two Step (1915) by G. Selig (Brooklyn, NY: Hirsekorn & Selig), available here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags

Pickinniny Capers (1912) by Theron Bennett (Springfield MO: Cornelius J. Shea), available here in Rare Rags

Fragrance of June: Late Hesitation or Boston Waltz by Theron C. Bennett (not sure of date), available here in Ragtime Waltzes

Red Rose Waltz (1918) by Charley Straight (Chicago, IL: Ted Browne Music Co.), available here in Ragtime Waltzes

Fred Heltman: In That American Rag, Jasen and Jones describe Fred Heltman as "Cleveland's foremost ragtime composer" (p. 148) whose Daisy Rag was a success for Sam Fox Publishing. Thereafter, Heltman published his own rags. He was also a composer of songs. The following five rags by Heltman are available online:

Chewin' The Rag (Cleveland, OH: The Fred Heltman Co., 1912)

Clover Blossom Rag (Cleveland, OH: Fred Heltman, 1910)

Daisy Rag (Cleveland, OH: Sam Fox Pub. Co., 1909)

Shine or Polish Rag (Cleveland, OH: The Fred Heltman Co., 1914)

Sunflower Babe: March Two Step (Cleveland, OH: F. D. Heltman, 1909)

However, I have added (free) sheet music to the following two other rarer Heltman rags, contained in a folio published by Heltman called Six Rags (which contain all of the foregoing except for Daisy Rag):

Fred Heltman's Rag (Cleveland, OH: The Fred Heltman Co., 1918), available here in Rare Rags

Ring Tum Diddie (Cleveland, OH: Popular Music Publishers, 1912), available here in Rare Rags

All of Heltman's rags are listed in That American Rag.

I also added (free) sheet music for the following compositions:

Ten Penny Rag: A Driving Hit (1911) by Clarence E. Brandon & Billy Smythe (St. Louis, MO: Brandon & Smythe), available here in Rare Rags and listed in That American Rag

Sphinx Rag (1912) by Leon Carroll (San Francisco, CA: Sphinx Pub. Co.), available here in Rare Rags - check out the wonderful cover

Goose Step: Novelty One Step (1915) by Eugene Platzmann (New York, NY: Church, Paxson), available here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags

Clorinda: March Two Step by Chauncey Haines (Toronto, ON: Harry S. Sparks) (s.d.), available here in Ragtime Music in Canada

When Oscar Played the Flute (1912) by George L. Cobb (Buffalo, NY: H.C. Weasner & Co.), available here in the Rags of George L. Cobb

Update #14: What's New as of September 14, 2008

Further to my last update, I obtained a copy of Au pôle nord: Two step (1909 by) Jéan-Baptiste Lafrenière (available here in Ragtime Music in Quebec) from Montréal qui chante (Vol. 2, no 7) (10 octobre 1909) with the hope that I had uncovered a rare composition by him (since I found no reference to it in any of his standard bibliographies). Alas, the piece is identical music to Lafrenière's Silly-Ass (1907) (available here). As such, it appears he merely republished the same music under a different title and with a different publisher. Although I am disappointed to have not been the (re)discoverer of an unknown or note widely-known composition, Au pôle nord: Two step does raise some questions:

The piece is dedicated to Captain Bernier and the crew of the "Arctic." Bernier was a Canadian explorer (1852-1934) who led a number of expeditions by ship to Canada's north. Did Bernier pay Lafrenière for the piece (I assume not) or was it merely a patriotic gesture by Lafrenière? Perhaps Lafrenière's orchestra played at the dock at one of the launches of the "Arctic."

Did Lafrenière get paid separately for this piece? Was it well known that he was repackaging Silly Ass as Au pole nord?

I have added the sheet music to Buxton Slow Drag: A Snail Serenade (1907) by Leonard Lewis, available here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags

I have also added the sheet music to the following rag, which is listed in That American Rag:

Sweet Pickles: Characteristic Two-Step (1907) by Theron C. Bennett (listed by Jasen and Jones by his pseudonym, George E. Florence), available here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime and Food

I also added the sheet music to seven of Herbert Ingraham's instrumentals, all from 1909:

Hot Tamale Man! Rag (1909), available here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime and Food

Lost Rag (1909), available here in Rare Rags

Nicest, Sweetest, Cutest Rag (1909), available here in Rare Rags

Piccalili Rag (1909), available here in Rare Rags

Salt and Pepper Rag (1909), available here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime and Food

Slippery Elm Rag (1909), available here in Rare Rags

St. Vitus Dance (1909), available here in Rare Rags

Dale Hadley of California was kind enough to send me a color copy of Love-Tree Waltzes (1908) by ragtime composer Charlotte Blake, availabe here in Ragtime Waltzes and here in Women Composers of Ragtime. I encourage other readers to send me any public domain, rare ragtime instrumentals.

Update #13: What's New as of June 14, 2008 [top]

I added a new essay called "Ragtime Music in Quebec" (Featuring the Rags and Compositions of Jéan-Baptiste Lafrenière and other Ragtime-Era Compositions Published in Québec). The National Library of Quebec has done a wonderful thing by digitizing Le Pass Temps, a French language musical periodical/newspaper than ran from 1895 to 1945. This periodical published most of the compositions of Jéan-Baptiste Lafrenière. As such, my essay contains the sheet music for all 43 known publications of Jéan-Baptiste Lafrenière and I hope to add a 44th shortly by requesting a print copy of Au pôle nord: Two step from 1909 by Jéan-Baptiste Lafrenière which is a composition not ordinarily included in most listings of his compositions).

In addition, I also include a listing of 143 other ragtime-era compositions published in Quebec, 106 of which include the full-text sheet music (for free). Of these, 3 pieces included "rag" in the title (Some Rag: A Real Live One by Willie Eckstein, Chewing Rag by Alcide Giroux, and Rag Tags Rag by Harry Thomas) and many others are two-steps or syncopated marches that fall within the ragtime tradition. Some of the more interesting or prolific composers included are Alcide Giroux, Willie Eckstein, Otto Zimmerman, Wilfrid Beaudry, Joseph Dumas, Louis-Napoleono Guilbart, Fernand Heintz, Samuel Duguay and Leon Dequin; for these composers, I include brief biographical comments.

I added the sheet music for the following 4 rare rags that are not otherwise published or easily available online and all of which are listed in Jasen and Jones, That American Rag:

Borneo Rag: An Oriental Pastime (1911) by Neil Moret (i.e., Charles N. Daniels), available here in Rare Rags

Cucumber Rag (1910) by W.C. Powell (i.e., William C. Polla), available here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime and Food

Rag Baby Mine (1913) by George Botsford, available here in Rare Rags

The Yankee Doodle Rag (1911) by Garfield Wilson, available here in Rare Rags

Update #12: What's New as of March 21, 2008 [top]

I added the sheet music for the following 8 rare rags that are not otherwise published or easily available online and all of which are listed in Jasen and Jones, That American Rag:

Black & White Rag (1908) by George Botsford, available here in Rare Rags

Carnation: Ragtime Two Step (1903) by Clyde D. Douglass, available here in Rare Rags

Chocolate Creams: A Rag with Flavor (1909) by Warren Camp, available here in Rare Rags and here in Food and Ragtime

Hot House Rag (1914) by Paul Pratt, available here in Rare Rags

Lady Slippers Rag (1910), available here in The Rags of Charles L. Johnson

Rig-A-Ma-Role Rag (1910) by Edwin F. Kendall, available here in Rare Rags

Ripples Rag (1912) by Camilla Thiele, available here in Rare Rags and here in Women Composers of Ragtime

Sponge: Two Step (1911) by W.C. Simon, available here in Rare Rags

I added the sheet music for Razzazza Mazzazza: An Extravaganza (1906) by Arthur Prior, available here in Rare Rags

I added links to the following sheet music from the wonderful website called IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana (thanks to Luigi Ranalli for pointing out the site) (most of these rags are extremely rare; those listed in That American Rag are marked "TAR"):

In my essay Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags, I added links to:

Mosquito Bites (TAR). Edwin F. Kendall. New York, NY: Seminary Music, 1907 (available here)

Pigeon Walk. James V. Monaco. New York: Broadway Music, 1914 (available here)

The Race Horse Rag: Two Step (TAR). Mike Bernard. Philadelphia, PA: Jos. Morris, 1911 (available here)

In my essay on Women Composers of Ragtime, I added links to:

The Bachelor's Waltz. Freida Aufderheide. Indianapolis, IN: Carlin and Lennox, 1909 (available here)

Clothilda: A March Two Step. Julia L. Niebergall. Indianapolis, IN: Carlin & Lennox, 1905 (available here)

In the Heart of Dixie: Characteristic March and Two Step. Lenora Searles Hawes. Fort Wayne, IN: C.C. Powell, 1903 (available here)

Jolly Crowd. Lizzie Mowen. Rochester, NY: C.C. Powell, 1908 (available here)

Novelty Rag (TAR). May Aufderheide. Indianapolis, IN: J.H. Aufderheide & Co., 1911 (available here)

Pelham Waltzes. May Aufderheide. Indianapolis, IN: J.H. Aufderheide & Co., 1912 (available here)

Pompeian Waltzes. May Aufderheide. Indianapolis, IN: J.H. Aufderheide & Co., 1911 (available here)

Ragtime Showers: March And Two Step (TAR). Kathryn Athol Morton. New York, NY: Richard Saalfied, 1902 (available here)

The Richmond Rag (TAR) May Aufderheide. Indianapolis, IN: J.H. Aufderheide & Co., 1908 (available here)

That Captivating Rag (TAR) Ruth Orndorff. Kendallville, IN: Ruth Orndorff, 1912 (available here)

Zepha Waltzes. Lizzie Mowen. Rochester, NY: C.C. Powell, 1908 (available here)

In my essay on Food and Ragtime, I added links to:

Chili Con Carne: A Hot Rag Two Step (TAR). Elmer B. Griffith. La Fayette, IN: Rinker Music Co., 1911 (available here)

In my essay on Axel Christensen: The Czar of Ragtime, I updated my links to:

Reinette Rag (TAR) (by David Reichstein) (Chicago, IL: Christensen School, 1913) (available here)

Auld Lang Syne (Ragtime Version). Axel Christensen (arranger). Chicago, IL: Forster Music, 1915 (available here)

When You and I Were Young, Maggie (Ragtime Version). Axel Christensen (arranger). Chicago, IL: Forster Music, 1915 (available here)

In my essay on George L. Cobb I had listed "Moulin a Cafe" as a possible composition by Cobb. Ragtimer Andrew Barrett kindly pointed out that "Moulin a Cafe" is simply the Sidney Bechet version of Cobb's Rubber Plant Rag (listen to "Moulin a Cafe" on this recording on YouTube.

Ragtimer Nora Hulse was kind enough to point out that the following composers I had listed as women composers of rags were in fact actually men: Billie Taylor, Billie (sic) [Billy] Talbot, Gayle von Kamacke Wood, M. Kendree Miller and Frances Cox. I have removed them from my listings of women composers and made other date and spelling corrections to some of my other entries for women composers. Nora also pointed out that I was missing a listing of the following piece by Charles L. Johnson which I have now added to my essay on his rags. The piece was: Charles L. Johnson. Dedication: March and Two Step (Oklahoma, OK: Frederickson-Kron Music Co., 1906).

Thanks to Alexandre Dias of Brazil for pointing out that the full score of Scott Joplin's Treemonisha is available here from the Library of Congress. I also added a link here to Joplin's Pine Apple Rag Song (from the University of Mississippi Libraries) thanks to a tip from ragtime enthusiast Jang-Won Son of Seoul, Korea.

Dr. Rainer E. Lotz of Germany was kind enough to suggest additions to my bibliography in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era, including his very own German Ragtime & Prehistory of Jazz (Chigwell, England: Storyville, 1985) and Edward Samuel Walker's English Ragtime: A Discography (Woodthorpe, England: Edward S. Walker, 1971). At his suggestion, I have also added an entry for Chris Ware's Ragtime Ephemeralist which has excellent coverage of cakewalks.

I added an entry here to a "undiscovered" song by George L. Cobb entitled Moonlight Makes Me Lonesome from 1908. If you were the person who won it on eBay and are willing to provide a digital scan for this site, I would be grateful.

I made numerous minor corrections or additions, including some relating to Axel Christensen. Bill Edwards corrected some Charles L. Johnson biographical information that I added to my essay on Johnson, including changing his year of birth to 1875 based on Census research by Bill and Johnson's draft card. Bill's biography of Johnson is here.

I added the following two entries to my Ragtime Sources page:

James Pitt-Payne – Ragtime Treasures (a great source of ragtime MIDI recordings)
<http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/RagtimeTreasures/>

Ian Whitcombe’s Radio Show (8pm to 10pm (PST) every Wednesday)
<http://www.luxuriamusic.com>

Update #11: What's New as of November 13, 2007 [top]

I added a note here in my essay on Canadian ragtime personalities to mark the passing of John Arpin.

I added the sheet music to the following four rare rags, all of which are listed in That American Rag (Jasen & Jones):

Colonial Rag (1914) by Ernest R. Ball and Julius Lenzberg, available here in Rare Rags

Dixie Kisses (1909) by E. Clinton Keithley, available here in Rare Rags

Nervous Rag (1910) by Bernard E. Fay and Blackford, available here in Rare Rags

Shovel Fish Rag (1907) by Harry Cook, available here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags

Update #10: What's New as of November 6, 2007 [top]

I added the sheet music for the following 10 rare rags that are not otherwise published or easily available and all of which are listed in Jasen and Jones, That American Rag:

Knick Knocks Rag One-Step (1915) by Phil Schwartz, available here in Rare Rags.

New Hippodrome Rag (1914) by Herman E. Schultz, available here in Rare Rags. According to the seller of this piece on EBay, the New Hippodrome referenced in the title was a vaudeville theatre built in 1914 in Toronto by Michael Shea of Buffalo, New York (whose picture is on the cover). The seller notes that the theatre was destroyed in 1957. When I have more time, I will investigate the history in more detail.

Persian Lamb Rag (1908) by Percy Wenrich, available here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags

Pigeon Wing Rag (1909) by Charles L. Johnson, available here in Rare Rags and here in the Rags of Charles L. Johnson.

Rig-A-Jig Rag (1912) by Nat. D. Ayer, available here in Rare Rags.

Smiles and Chuckles Rag One Step (1917) by F. Henri Klickmann, available here in Rare Rags.

That Dawggone Rag (1914) by Maurice K. Smith, available here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags

That Sentimental Rag (1913) by Mabel Tilton, available here in Rare Rags and here in Women Composers of Ragtime.

The Tierney Rag (1913) by Harry A. Tierney, available here in Rare Rags.

The Turkey Trot (1912) by Ribé Danmark, available here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags

I added the following George L. Cobb compositions:

Dancing 'Round The U.S.A. (1915) (with Jack Yellen and Harry Carroll), available here in the Rags of George L. Cobb (provided by Frederick Hodges)

On the Good Ship Nancy Lee (1913) (words by Jack Yellen), available here in the Rags of George L. Cobb

I also updated biographical information on Cobb using research provided by Bill Edwards and Luigi Ranalli. In addition, I recalibrated the data on Cobb's compositions indicating that there is now a total of 210 known compositions published by George L. Cobb, with my site now having 166 of his 177 pre-1923 compositions.

I added the following compositions to Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags:

The Cat on the Keyboard (1915) by Harry Stafford, available here.

Monkey Blues (1918) by Max Darewski, available here.

Update #9: What's New as of September 22, 2007 [top]

I added the sheet music to Skip: Characteristic (1906) by Libbie Erickson, available here in Women Composers of Ragtime and here in Rare Rags.

I was fortunate to be able to win Max Morath's copy of Candied Cherries (1911) by Lucien Denni, which I added here in Food and Ragtime and here in Rare Rags.

I added the sheet music to Whipped Cream Rag (1913) by Percy Wenrich, available here in Food and Ragtime and here in Rare Rags.

I added the sheet music to Under the Southern Moon Two-Step (1910) by Charles Johnson, available here in the Rags of Charles L. Johnson and here in Rare Rags.

I added the sheet music to Sweet Pickin's Rag (1918) by Charley Straight, available here in Rare Rags. Thanks to Vincent Johnson for providing a digital copy of this piece.

I added the sheet music to the following two compositions by ragtime composer Harry Jentes (1887 - 1958), digital copies of which were provided by Vincent Johnson:

Soup and Fish Rag (1913) by Harry Jentes and Pete Wendling, available here in Food and Ragtime and here in Rare Rags. This rag is described by Jasen and Tichenor (1978:178) as a "wandering labyrinth of strange harmonies."

Rainbow Waltz (1922) by Harry Jentes, available here in Ragtime Waltzes.

I added the sheet music to Roy Bargy's Sunshine Capers (1922), available here in Rare Rags. Vincent Johnson also provided a digital copy of this piece.

I added the sheet music to Futuristic Rag (1923) by Rube Bloom (1902-1976), available here in Rare Rags.

I added the following two pieces of sheet music by Egbert van Alstyne:

Hula Hula Cakewalk (1899) by Egbert Van Alstyne, available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era. A digital copy of this piece was provided by Peter Persoff.

Ginger Snaps (1904) by Egbert van Alstyne, available here in Food and Ragtime and here in Rare Rags.

I added the sheet music to Double Fudge (1902) by Joe Jordan, available here in Food and Ragtime and here in Rare Rags. Jasen and Tichenor (1978:59-60) describe this piece as a "fascinating concept" with influences of Tom Turpin. The digital copy of this piece was provided by Vincent Johnson.

I added an Microsoft Access report here on the Ragtime Sources page listing out what I believe is all of the sheet music published by Harry H. Sparks of Toronto, circa 1990 to 1910. The report lists sources of the information ("NLC" means National Library of Canada).

I added the sheet music to Starlight: Three-Step (1906) by Lorin Morton (published by H.H. Sparks of Toronto) here in Ragtime Music in Canada and here in Rare Rags.

I added the sheet music to Pegasus (1908) by Robert B. Stirling (published by Stark Music Co.) here in Rare Rags. As was pointed out by Max Morath when he sold this piece (to me) on E-Bay, this sheet music uses the same cover that Stark used in 1920 for a rag by James Scott called Pegasus. The piece by Stirling is not a rag but is a march in 6/8 time. Ragtime sheet music publishers have been known to recycle covers. This was done by Stark most likely to save money.

I added the sheet music to Fighting the Flames: Descriptive Two-Step (1907) by Earl LaFarge here in Rare Rags.

I added the sheet music to Southern Beauties: Two Step (1906) by Carl Beck here in Rare Rags.

I added the sheet music to Alhambra Syncopated Waltzes (1913) by J. Russel Robinson here in Ragtime Waltzes and here in Rare Rags.

I added the sheet music cover to Fiddle Sticks (1910) by Florence Wilson here in Women Composers of Ragtime.

I added the sheet music to Hot off the Griddle: Novelty Cakewalk (1915) by James White here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era and here in Rare Rags.

I added the sheet music to the following two compositions by George L. Cobb in The Rags of George L. Cobb:

Won't You Come and Love Me?, available here (words by H.C. Weasner).

That Lovely Dovey Glide, available here.

I also added an alternative sheet music cover here for Cobb's Russian Rag from a version of the piece published in England.

I added the sheet music to Jazzapation (1920) by Edward Claypoole here in Rare Rags.

Update #8: What's New as of May 27, 2007 [top]

I added the following pieces to my Food and Ragtime page and to Rare Rags; all of these pieces are quite rare:

Cheese and Crackers (1909) by Homer Denny, available here.

Pepper Sauce (1910) by H.A. Fischler, available here.

Stewed Prunes (1910) by Oscar Lorraine, available here.

Washington Pie: A Ragtime Piece (1907) by Theodore Morse, available here.

I also added Stewed Chicken to my Food and Ragtime page (I added it in Update #7 to Ragtime at the Zoo but forgot to add it to Food and Ragtime).

I added the following piece to my page Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags (it is not necessarily rare:

The Lion Tamer Rag (1913) by Al Marzian (as "Mark Janza"), available here.

On the back of The Lion Tamer Rag was a listing for the Youth and Beauty Waltz by A.F. Marzian, so I added this waltz to my essay on Ragtime Waltzes.

I added the following two extremely rare ragtime songs by George L. Cobb in in The Rags of George L. Cobb:

Every Little Note Means Love When Billy Plays That Way (1912) by George L. Cobb, available here.

When the Moon was Hanging Low (1917) by George L. Cobb, available here.

Adrien Le Gallo was kind enough to supply a digital scan of Golden Hours Reverie (1916) by Charles L. Johnson, available here in my essay on The Rags of Charles L. Johnson.

A reader of the site was kind enough to send a scan of the cover to Axel Christensen's Webster Grove Rag, available here (along with the sheet music) in my essay called Axel Christensen: The Czar of Ragtime and His Ragtime Review.

Alessandro Simonetto of Italy let me know about his great site for MIDI recordings of ragtime compositions of Joplin, Scott and Lamb (among others). I added a link to his site on my Ragtime Sources page.

Ira Kass also reminded me that I did not have a link on my Ragtime Sources page to the 19th Century California Sheet Music - (Mary Kay Duggan) site.

Update #7: What's New as of April 8, 2007 [top]

I added Huskin' Time: A Rural One Step (1914) by George L. Cobb here in The Rags of George L. Cobb. This piece is extremely rare and does not show up in the standard listings of instrumentals by ragtime composers.

In addition, ragtimer Frederick Hodges donated scans of the following two extremely rare instrumentals by Cobb:

George L. Cobb. Fleetfoot March. Buffalo, NY: H.C. Weasner & Co., 1906, available here.

George L. Cobb. Buffalo Means Business. Louis C. Synder, 1909. Listed in TAR. Copyright registration date: June 14, 1909, available here.

I added two pieces to Rare Rags that I was lucky enough to buy on eBay from Max Morath. The two pieces are:

James E.C. Kelly. Icycles: Rag Two-Step. New York: Jerome H. Remick, 1907, available here.

Felix Arndt. Marionette. Cleveland, OH: Sam Fox Publishing Co., 1914, available here.

I added The Buffalo Rag (1904) by Tom Turpin (Chicago, IL: Will Rossiter, 1904), available here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags.

I added The Cat's Pajamas (1922) by Harry Jentes here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags and here in Rare Rags.

I added Cheerful Blues (1917) by Abe Olman here in Rare Rags.

I added The Maurice Tango (1912) by Silvio Hein here in Rare Rags.

I added a link to Felicity: Hesitation Waltz (1914) by Albert F. Marzian here in Ragtime Waltzes.

Ira Kass reminded me of the good work being done at the Indiana Historical Society through their digital images collection. It is worth taking a look if you have not done so; the sheet music collection is quite interesting and, as one might assume, has some interesting ragtime era pieces from Indiana.

Here are two interesting pieces that I believe are not easily available elsewhere in print or online:

S. Jergensen, Hoosier Rag (Indianapolis, IN: Abby Music Co., 1905) available from that site in PDF here.

Harry von Tilzer, I Love It: A Fantastic Rag-Two Step (New York: Harry von Tilzer Music, 1910) available from that site in PDF here.

I added the following "animal-themed" pieces to Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags:

The Buffalo March : For the Piano. (1901) by Thomas Preston Brooke, available here.

Stewed Chicken Rag (1912) by Glenn C. Leap, available here.

Thoroughbreds: March and Two Step (1912) by Emil Seidel, available here.

A Tip on the Derby: March and Two-Step (1902) by Charles J. Gebest, available here.

I added the following online sources of sheet to section 3 of my page called Ragtime Sources:

Indiana State University, Kirk Collection

New York Public Library Digital Collections

University of Buffalo, Illuminations: Revisiting the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition of 1901

University of Washington, Ashford Collection

Update #6: What's New as of December 29, 2006 [top]

I added a link to the sheet music for George L. Cobb's Bunny Hug Rag (1913) here in my essay on The Rags of George L. Cobb and here in my essay on Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags.

Update #5: What's New as of December 25, 2006 [top]

I added a link here on my Ragtime Sources page to Eytan Uslan's Authentic Ragtime and Roaring 20's Piano website

I added the sheet music to the following two compositions by Charles L. Johnson available in my essay of the Rags of Charles L. Johnson:

Charles L. Johnson, The Harvest Hop: Charles L. Johnson's Barn Dance (1908), available here.

Charles L. Johnson, Southern Beauties: March-Two Step (1907), available here.

I added to Joseph Lamb: Ragtime's Quiet "Sensation" the sheet music to the following two compositions by "Harry Moore", a known pseudonym for Joseph Lamb:

Harry Moore, I'm Jealous of You (1908), available here.

Harry Moore, Sweet Nora Doone (1907), available here.

Both pieces were published by Harry H. Sparks of Toronto around the same time as Lamb's other "Canadian" compositions (but after the time Lamb left Canada and returned to the United States). I believe my essay now contains all of Lamb's "Canadian" and public domain compositions.

I also replaced here the existing sheet music and cover for The Lilliputian's Bazaar: A Musical Novelty (1905) by Joseph Lamb with a colour cover and a better quality scan of the sheet music from a personal copy I recently obtained on eBay.

I added the following piece to the essay on the Rags of George L. Cobb:

George L. Cobb, Parade of the Teddy Bears: Characteristic March & Two Step (1908), available here.

I believe this piece is extremely rare since I did not uncover its existence through my extensive research when I first wrote my essay on George L. Cobb. The cover for this piece is quite cute - in addition to the marching teddy bears there is a flag of Teddy Roosevelt with the words "De-lighted" on it being carried by one of the teddy bears.

I added the sheet music here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era for Charles Dalbey's Freaks of Blackville: Cakewalk and Two-Step as published by Harry H. Sparks of Toronto. I suspect that Harry Sparks republished the piece in Canada with a "typo" in the first name and that the piece is really by Clarence Dalbey, not Charles Dalbey. I say this for three reasons: (i) There exists a similarly named piece by Clarence Dalbey; (ii) Internet searches on "Charles" Dalbey get no relevant hits, whereas Internet searches on "Clarence" Dalby do get relevant hits to a Clarence Dalbey as a bandleader or composer; and (iii) The cover to the piece published by Sparks states "Featured by Sousa's Famous Band" which supports the notion that Dalbey was a bandleader or performed with a band, consistent with the Internet searches on his name.

I added A Bit O' Sunshine: Novelty Two Step (undated) by Daisy Allen here to Women Composers of Ragtime; I also added it here to Rare Rags.

I added Cherry: Intermezzo Two-Step (1905) by L. Albert to Food and Ragtime, available here; I also added here to Rare Rags.

I added the song If I Had All the World Besides I'd Still Want You (1916) by Sadie Koninsky to Women Composers of Ragtime, available here.

I added the following two waltzes to Ragtime Waltzes:

Love Dreams (Valse Boston and Hesitation Waltz) (1914) by M. Greenwald, available here.

In Lovers' Lane Waltzes (1906) by Sadie Koninsky, available here and also available here in Women Composers of Ragtime

I added Perpetual Rag: March Two Step (1908) by B.W. Castle to Rare Rags, available here.

I added Sparkles: High Class Ragtime Two Step (1909) by Charles B. Ennis available to Rare Rags, available here.

I added a link in Food and Ragtime for Abe Oleman's Red Onion Rag (1912), available here.

I added a link in Food and Ragtime for Margaret Woodin's "Boiled Owl" Rag (1911), available here (I of course realize that boiled owl is likely not very tasty); I also added a link to the piece here in Women Composers of Ragtime.

Update #4: What's New as of November 26, 2006 [top]

I added the sheet music for Charles L. Johnson's Fine and Dandy Two Step (1908), available here in the essay on the rags of Charles L. Johnson.

I added the following pieces to the essay on the Rags of George L. Cobb:

That Tantalizing Tango Tune (1914), available here.

Red Rooster (1916), available here.

Let's Take A Trip Back To Dixie (1921), available here.

I also added an entry to a newly discovered Cobb composition called When Oscar Played the Flute, which was advertised on the last page of Red Rooster. The entry for When Oscar Played the Flute is available here.

I added a link to the sheet music for Billiken: Two Step Rag (1912) by Ina Shepardson, available here in the essay on Women Composers of Ragtime.

I added a link to the sheet music for The Flyer (1908) by Frieda Aufderheide, available here in the essay on Women Composers of Ragtime.

I added a link to the sheet music for Gum Drops: Novelty Two Step (1915) by Henry Lodge, available here in the essay on Food and Ragtime.

I added a link to the sheet music for The Peach (1908) by Arthur Marshall, available here in the essay on Food and Ragtime.

With the launch of the new Ragtime page on the Library of Congress's Music, Theatre and Dance website, I was able to update sheet music covers in each of the following essays on this site: Scott Joplin - King of the Ragtime Writers, Joseph Lamb: Ragtime's Quiet "Sensation", and "On the Pike" with the Rags of James Scott. I was also able to add links to the sheet music for a number of Scott Joplin songs, available here, and a link to the sheet music for Joseph Lamb's Gee, Kid! But I Like You, available here. I also added links to the covers and sheet music for Axel Christensen's Ragtime Wedding March (Apologies to Mendelssohn) and Irmena Rag, available on this page.

Update #3: What's New as of October 18, 2006 [top]

Pat Lamb Conn, the daughter of ragtime composer Joseph F. Lamb, was kind enough to provide me copies of two song compositions of her father that I did not yet have: Love in Absence (1909) (available here) and Playmates (1910) (available here). She also provided me a colour copy of the cover for Dear Blue Eyes, True Eyes (1908) (available here). This means that I am able to provide access to all of Lamb's public domain compositions with the exception of two pieces that I am still trying to track down (both compositions he wrote using the pseudonym Harry Moore: Sweet Nora Doone (Toronto, ON: Harry H. Sparks, 1907) and I'm Jealous of You (Toronto, ON: Harry H. Sparks, 1908).

I added two new waltzes to my essay on ragtime waltzes: Patocka Waltzes (1901) (by Egbert Van Alstyne), available here, and Sweetheart's Time Waltz (1903) (by Howard Whitney), available here.

I added a scan of an original color copy to the February 1917 edition of That Tuneful Yankee that I recently bought on EBay, available here in my essay on ragtime composer George L. Cobb. I hope to shortly digitize the entire February 1917 edition.

I was able to source a complete copy of W.H. Hodgin's 1899 A Ragtime Spasm, available here in my essay on Ragtime Music in Canada and here in Rare Rags.

I tried to improve the quality of the first few pages of Edward Winn's Winn's Practical Method of Popular Music: Rag and Jazz Piano Playing, available here, since the original version loaded a few weeks ago had some blurry pages.

Update #2: What's New as of October 1, 2006: [top]

I added a new essay on ragtime composer George L. Cobb, available here. This essay includes brief biographical information on Cobb along with a complete listing of all of his known compositions (including compositions that have not previously been included in most listings of his work). Included are (free) links to the sheet music for 124 rags, marches, waltzes and other instrumental compositions and 77 songs by Cobb, for total of 201 compositions.

I added what I believe to be the final (and extremely rare) volume/edition of Ragtime Review (Vol. 4, No. 2, February 1918) available here in the chapter setting out the digitized full-text of the Ragtime Review. Most bibliographic entries in library catalogues for the Ragtime Review show the magazine continuing to only January 1918 and I have been unable to obtain any references to a February 1918 edition; hence, I think the February 1918 version included on my site is extremely rare. This edition includes Happy Sam Rag (1918) by Oscar Chilton and The Cactus Rag (1916) by Lucien Porter Gibson, both available here in Chapter 3 of the essay on Axel Christensen (these two rags are also available in Rare Rags). I also added to my essay on Christensen's Ragtime Review the front cover of the March 1918 edition of Walter Jacobs' Melody magazine (available here) which explains the take over by Jacobs of the Ragtime Review.

I added a chapter here to the essay on Axel Christensen that discusses his ragtime piano teaching methods. Included in this chapter is the full-text of two of his teaching manuals: Christensen's Rag-Time Instruction Book For Piano (circa 1909) (available here, 36 pages) and Axel Christensen's New Instruction Book for Rag and Jazz (circa 1920) (available here, 48 pages). I discuss these manuals briefly, in addition to also discussing other ragtime instruction manuals. I also include digitized versions of ragtime manuals by Edward Winn, Scott Joplin and H.J. Beckerman.

I used some of the ragtime compositions published in the two Axel Christensen manuals above to replace existing compositions (since the versions in the two manuals where in much better physical condition). The compositions replaced include: Irmena Rag (available here), Old Black Joe (available here), Pathetic Rag (available here), Ragtime Wedding March (available here), Reinette Rag (available here), and Webster Grove Rag (available here). A special thanks goes to Rob Crausaz for providing a number of scans of covers to Christensen-related rags and selected issues of the Ragtime Review.

I updated some biographical information on Joseph F. Lamb based on a phone call that his daughter, Patricia Lamb Conn, was kind enough to make to me on the evening of September 7, 2006, after she reviewed the initial version of the essay. I corrected the name of Lamb's sisters (correctly, Anastasia and Katherine) and the fact that he had a brother, James. I also corrected the birthdate of Joe Lamb, Jr., being July 23, 1915 as well as correcting the wedding day of Lamb to his second wife Amelia Collins (the correct date being November 12, 1922). In addition, I had left out mention of Patricia Lamb Conn's other brother, Robert, born November 20, 1927.

I added the sheet music for Hey Rube: Characteristic March & Two Step (1906) (by Nellie M. Stokes), available here in Rare Rags and here in Women Composers of Ragtime.

I added the sheet music for Elephant Rag (1913) (by Malvin M. Franklin), available here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime at the Zoo.

I added Sunflower Tickle (A Rag) (1908) (by Dolly Richmond, a pseudonym for Percy Wenrich), available here in Rare Rags.

I also added Sweetmeats (1907) (by Percy Wenrich), available here in Food and Ragtime and here in Rare Rags.

I added two pieces of rare sheet music by Canadian William H. Hodgins:

A Ragtime Spasm (1899) (by William H. Hodgins), available here in Ragtime Music in Canada and here in Rare Rags (although the last page was missing from the source material; I am looking to try to obtain a complete version of this rare piece).

Happy Coons: Danse Negre (1906) (by William H. Hodgins), available here in Ragtime Music in Canada and here in Rare Rags. Thanks to Bob Perry of Australia for providing a digital copy of this piece.

I added the sheet music and a MIDI audio file for Maude Gilmore's Peach Blossoms Rag Two Step (1910), available here in Women Composers of Ragtime. Thanks to Rob Crausaz for providing the digital scans of this piece and the MIDI file.

I added a MIDI file for Progressive Rag (by Toby Brown), available here in the essay on Axel Christensen. Thanks to Rob Crausaz for providing the MIDI file.

I added sheet music for the following compositions by Marie Louka:

Japanese Fire Dance (1901) (available here in Women Composers of Ragtime and here in Rare Rags)

The North American: March and Two Step (1904) (available here in Women Composers of Ragtime and here in Rare Rags)

The Rajah: March and Two Step (1902) (available here in Women Composers of Ragtime and here in Rare Rags)

As part of my essay on the music of George L. Cobb, I added his Canned Corn Rag (1910) here in Food and Ragtime, here in Rare Rags and also here in the essay on George L. Cobb. Thanks to Andrew Barrett for providing me a copy of this composition.

I added the sheet music for the following cakewalks:

Aunt Mandy's Wedding: March and Cake Walk (1899) (by Wm. H. Tyers), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era and here in Rare Rags. Thanks to Dave Kerr in England for providing a copy of this piece.

Belle of Richmond: Characteristic March and Cake Walk (1902) (Hans Liné), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era and here in Rare Rags.

Belle of the Cake Walk: March (1897) (Lawrence B. O'Connor), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era and here in Rare Rags.

In Ole Alabam: Rag Time Cake Walk and Two-Step (1900) (Hortensia Weisman), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era, here in Women Composers of Ragtime, and here in Rare Rags.

The Kentucky Cornhuskers: Two Step March and Cake Walk (1899) (by Alfred Rosenberg), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era and here in Rare Rags.

Limber Libby: Characteristic March, Two Step and Cake Walk (1900) (by Edward J. Hogben), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era and here in Rare Rags.

Ragelies: Two Step or Cakewalk (1899) (by W.M. Fassbinder), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era and here in Rare Rags.

In addition, I added links to the sheet music for the following cakewalks (thanks to Eytan Uslan for pointing out these titles):

Carolina Tar Heel Cakewalk (1898) (Dan Sullivan), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era.

Coon-ville Festival Cakewalk (1898) (Gus H. Kline), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era.

Dixie Flyer: Cake Walk and Two Step (1901) (A.E. Henrich), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era.

A Hot Old Time in Ragtown: Characteristic Cakewalk (1899) (Charles B. Brown), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era.

Laughing Lucas: Characteristic March and Two-Step (1901) (Florence McPherran), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era (and previously available here in Women Composers of Ragtime).

Swipesy Cakewalk (1900) (Scott Joplin and Arthur Marshall), available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era (and previously available here in Scott Joplin - King of the Ragtime Writers).

I added the sheet music for the following composition: Mignon: Novelette Two Step (1917) (by W.C. Powell), available here in Rare Rags.

I added the sheet music for the following composition: Feather Queen: Indian Intermezzo March and Two Step (1905) (by Mabel McKinley), available here in Women Composers of Ragtime and here in Rare Rags.

I added the sheet music for the following song by Canadian ragtime composer Willie Eckstein: In Sunny Summertime (words by T.H. Yull) (1911), available here and here in Ragtime Music in Canada.

I expanded the essay on Ragtime Waltzes by analyzing in more detail the difference between a ragtime waltz and a mere ragtime-era or Victorian parlour waltz, giving examples from some of the more authentic ragtime or syncopated waltzes. This analysis includes discussion of the section on ragtime waltzes from Christensen's Rag-Time Instruction Book For Piano (circa 1909).

I added an entry here in the essay on Scott Joplin for his ragtime opera, Treemonisha, in addition to adding an entry here for a commercial CD recording of that opera. I also added the sheet music to his 1895 song, Please Say You Will, available here in my essay on Scott Joplin and here in Rare Rags.

I added a scan of the color cover to my own copy of Julia Niebergall's Horsehoe Rag (1911), available here in Women Composers of Ragtime, here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime at the Zoo, in addition to replacing the sheet music with a digital copy of my own personal copy.

I added a link here under Ragtime Sources to Max Keenlyside's ragtime website, which includes some of his sheet music and recordings.

I added the sheet music for Pass The Pickles: Tango (1913) by Grace LeBoy here in Women Composers of Ragtime and here in Food and Ragtime and here in Rare Rags.

I added the sheet music for Felix Arndt's Kakuda: One Step (1914), available here in Rare Rags. Thanks to Luigi Ranalli in Italy for providing a copy of this rare piece.

I added the piano sheet music and orchestral parts here in Rare Rags for the following British composition: Little Gadabout: Two-Step Intermezzo (1911) (by Gustave Colin). Orchestral parts include music for clarinet, oboe, cello, violin, and drums.

I added the sheet music for Cloud Kisser Rag Two Step (1911) by Charles L. Johnson (as "Raymond Birch") here in The Rags of Charles L. Johnson and here in Rare Rags.

I added the following sheet music to Rare Rags:

A Basket of Roses: A Novelette (1913) by Fred G. Albers, available here in Rare Rags

Old Si's Fiddle (The Tunes He Used To Play - A Down East Medley) (1905) by Leslie T. Moore, available here in Rare Rags

Twentieth Century March and Two Step (1900) by J. Messina, available here in Rare Rags

I added the sheet music for the following ragtime-era waltzes to Ragtime Waltzes:

Carita Waltz (1909) (by Hubert Nickson), available here in Ragtime Waltzes, here in Ragtime Music in Canada and here in Rare Rags.

The Dream Waltz (from Tales of Hoffman Baracolle) (1914) by F. Henri Klickmann, available here in Ragtime Waltzes and here in Rare Rags.

Fortune Teller Waltz (1903) (by Edythe Wilson), available here in Ragtime Waltzes, here in Women Composers of Ragtime and here in Rare Rags.

Home Sweet Home Syncopated Waltzes (1912) by Warner C. Williams, available here in Ragtime Waltzes and here in Rare Rags.

Sunshine Waltz (1913) by Will E. Bush, available here in Ragtime Waltzes and here in Rare Rags.

Update #1: What's New as of June 29, 2006: [top]

I added a "classic ragtime piano" logo on the home page. The logo was designed by Andy Fielding of Vancouver, B.C., who himself is a musician and ragtime pianist and technical and copywriter. Most Canadians will be familiar with a ragtime arrangement that Andy wrote and recorded for the theme music to the CBC Radio show called DiscDrive. The theme is based on the melody to the classical composition "Fanfarinette" by Jean-Phillipe Rameau. The show uses a number of arrangements of this piece, including a version on the harp, a version on the synthesizer and so on. Andy's ragtime version is wonderful (as is the DiscDrive show itself). You can listen to DiscDrive over the Internet here (the host, Jurgen Gothe, plays a variety of music, commercial-free, ranging from classical to jazz and including the occasional rag).

I added a new essay called “Rare Rags” which features (free) links to pieces of rare ragtime sheet music that are not already in any of the online resources for ragtime sheet music and which are not easily found in the standard print folios of ragtime music. The sheet music in "Rare Rags" comes from the other essays on the site, but I thought it might be easier to also compile the rarer pieces in one list. I continue to scour Ebay for rare ragtime sheet music and occasionally purchase photocopies of print sheet music from various libraries throughout the world. As I obtain copies of rare rags that are in the public domain, I will add them to the "Rare Rags" essay and add entries to this "What's New" page so that readers know when new rare rags have been added. To start with, there are currently 102 rare rags on this page.

I added the following pieces of (free) sheet music that I recently obtained in print or already had in my collection:

A Bashful Bachelor: Intermezzo Two Step (1905) (Lawrence Ritchie) (available here in Rare Rags)

Black Wasp Rag: A Stinger (1911) (H.A. Fischler) (available here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags and here in Rare Rags).

Boomerang Rag (1916) (George Botsford) (available here in Rare Rags)

Dear Blue Eyes: True Eyes (1908) (Joseph Lamb) (available here in Joseph Lamb: Ragtime's Quiet Sensation and here in Rare Rags)

Fly Paper Rag (1909) (A. Lorne Lee) (available here in Ragtime Music in Canada, here in Ragtime Music in Canada and here in Rare Rags). Fly Paper Rag is listed in That American Rag. The composer, A. Lorne Lee, is apparently a Canadian composer but I cannot find out much information on him. I also added a link to his ragtime song My Own Sweet Eskimo (available here) and also created a list (available here) of his known compositions (in print) using the British Library catalogue and the database on Clifford Ford Publications. I will continue to try to track down more on him and the rest of his known compositions.

French Pastry Rag (1914) (Les Copeland) (available here in Food and Ragtime and here in Rare Rags)

Honeymoon Rag (1908) (Abe Olman) (available here in Rare Rags)

If Love is a Dream Let Me Never Awake (Joseph Lamb) (1908) (available here in Joseph Lamb: Ragtime's Quiet Sensation and here in Rare Rags)

Intermission Rag (1916) (Charles Wellinger) (available here in Ragtime Music in Canada and here in Rare Rags)

Little Sticks O' Licorice: Two-Step Rag (1911) (Ray Ruddy) (available here in Food and Ragtime and here in Rare Rags) (thanks to Luigi Ranalli for this piece)

The New Russian Rag (1923) (George L. Cobb) (available here in Rare Rags)

Noodles (German Rag) (1906) (Percy Wenrich) (available here in Rare Rags)

On The Rural Route (1917) (Paul Pratt) (available here in Rare Rags)

An Operatic Nightmare (1916) (Felix Arndt) (available here in Rare Rags)

Possum Hall Rag: Cake Walk and Two-Step (1899) (Bennett F. Fritch) (available here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era and here in Rare Rags and here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags)

Ring Tum Diddie: A Boston Rag (1912) (Fred Heltman) (available here in Rare Rags)

Silver Leaf Rag (1911) (Dan Goldsmith) (available here in Ragtime Music in Canada and here in Rare Rags)

Teasing the Cat (1916) (Charles L. Johnson) (available here in The Rags of Charles L. Johnson and here in Ragtime at the Zoo and here in Rare Rags)

That Eccentric Rag (1912) (J. Russel Robinson) (available here in Rare Rags)

Valse Angeline (1918) (Blanche M. Tice) (available here in Ragtime Waltzes, here in Women Composers of Ragtime and here in Rare Rags)

Valse Rose (1919) (Lionel Baxter) (available here in Ragtime Waltzes and here in Rare Rags)

I was in the process of adding PDF versions of my own personal copies of the following 3 compositions by Abe Olman thinking that they were not available online, but it turns out that they are available online via the Charles H. Templeton, Sr., collection of online sheet music at the Mississippi State University:

Abe Olman, Sea Weeds Rag (Philadelphia, PA: Jos. Morris Co., 1910) (available here)

Abe Oleman (sic), Tango Rag (1914) (Philadelphia, PA: Jos. Morris Co., 1914) (available here)

Abe Oleman (sic), The Winter Garden Rag (Chicago, IL: Will Rossiter, 1912) (available here)

In addition, I was also going to add a PDF version of my copy of Clover Blossom Rag by Fred Heltman (Cleveland, OH: Fred Heltman, 1910) but it is also available here from the Charles H. Templeton, Sr., collection of online sheet music at the Mississippi State University.

I added a link to the sheet music for The Pippin (Arthur Marshall) available here in Food and Ragtime (a “pippin” is the name of a variety of apples – there is an apple on the cover of the music; it is also related to the word “pips” meaning the seeds of various fruits) [top]

I added cross-references between Luella Lockwood Moore and Marion Arlington since Moore apparently used the name Marion Arlington as a pseudonym.

I improved the quality of the digital scan of the sheet music for Chippewa Rag (1911) (Myrtle Hoy) (available here in Women Composers of Ragtime and available here in Rare Rags)

I added biographical content to the essay on “Scott Joplin – The King of Ragtime Writers” [top]

I added links to the sheet music on the following four compositions (the links were missing on launch day due to the fact that the quality of the sheet music was not good enough; I recently obtained new copies of the music from the Toronto Reference Library):

Waltz Memories (Abbie Ford) (available here in Ragtime Waltzes and available here in Women Composers of Ragtime)

Those Old Golden Days of Long Ago (Grace LeBoy) (available here in Women Composers of Ragtime)

Sometime, Somewhere (Anita Owen) (available here in Women Composers of Ragtime)

Evening Glow Waltzes (W.R. McKanlass) (available here in Ragtime Waltzes)

I added a link to the sheet music in Ragtime Music in Canada for Gentle Winds Waltz by Lewis Owen, available here (it is fairly saccharine).

I also added links to the sheet music for the following waltzes to the Ragtime Waltzes page (these are not ragtime waltzes per se but merely ragtime-era waltzes):

Apple Blossoms Waltz (1911) (Charles B. Brown) (available here)

Arbor of Dreams Waltzes (1912) (C.E. Wheeler) (available here)

Beautiful Lady Valse (1912) (Egbert Van Alstyne) (available here)

Hermosa: Valse (1902) (Wesley Wells) (available here)

Lady Elizabeth: Waltz (1901) (Bertha Metzler) (available here)

Sapho Waltzes (1890) (Sol Bloom) (available here)

Sapphire Waltz (1904) (Charlie Baker) (available here)

Scottish Belles Waltzes (1905) (Fred L. Ryder) (available here)

Starlight Waltz (s.d.) (C.S. Brainard) (available here)

Sun Kissed Roses: Waltzes (1912) (Nat Johnson) (available here)

To My Lady Loves Waltzes (1900) (John H. Davies) (available here)

Twilight Hours: Waltz (1914) (Walter Rolfe) (available here)

Vacation Waltzes (1914) (Carl Loveland) (available here)

The Viceroy Tea Waltz (192?) (Alberto Agrati) (available here)

The Violet Waltzes (William H. Myers) (1899) (available here)

Zenda Waltzes (1895) (Frank M Witmark) (available here)

I added links to the sheet music for the following compositions to Food and Ragtime:

Apple Blossoms Valse (1909) (Ralph Weekes) (available here)

Apple Blossoms Waltz (1911) (Charles B. Brown) (available here)

A Cup O' Tea: Japanese Intermezzo (1910) (Karl Lennox) (available here)

Chestnuts (1906) (Percy Wenrich) (available here)

Chewin' the Rag (1912) (Fred Heltman) (available here)

Dish Rag: Two Step (1908) (Richard Goosman) (available here)

Ida Sweet as Apple Cider: Foxtrot (1916) (Eddie Munson) (available here)

The Viceroy Tea Waltz (192?) (Alberto Agrati) (available here)

I added links to the sheet music for the following compositions to Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags:

Arrival of the Mocking Bird: Characteristic Intermezzo (1904) (Alan Brown) (available here)

Black Feather: Two Step (1908) (Giblin) (available here and previously also available here in Women Composers of Ragtime)

Bow-Wow: One Step (A Dog-Gone Good Dance) (1916) (F. Henri Klickman) (available here)

Bow-Wow: One Step (1919) (Wheeler Wadsworth) (available here)

The Dance of the Sparrows: Characteristic (1903) (B. Richmond) (available here)

The Frolic of the Elks: Characteristic Two Step (1900) (Edmund Braham) (available here)

Kookooburra Schottische (1919) (Arthur W. Rooney) (available here)

Old Faithful: March and Two-Step (1907) (Abe Holzmann) (available here)

Red Raven (1915) (Charley Straight) (available here)

Tiger Rag (1917) (Nick LaRocca) (available here)

I added a link to the sheet music for what appears to be another composition by Abbie A. Ford called Sweet Recollections: Reverie (available here in Women Composers of Ragtime) but am somewhat suspicious whether this might be a different Abbie A. Ford since this new piece was published/composed 30 years before her other pieces.

I also added a link to the sheet music for an additional piece by Bertha Metzler called Over The Waters Blue: Barcarole (available here in Women Composers of Ragtime).

I updated some of my links to publicly available online versions of Scott Joplin compositions by linking to the Indiana University Sheet Music Collections website.

I added a sheet music cover (in black and white) to Willie Eckstein's Some Rag (available here in Ragtime Music in Canada)

I added a link to the sheet music for two additional pieces by Marie Louka called Ocean Spray: Mazurka Caprice (available here in Women Composers of Ragtime) and The Hour of Prayer: Reverie (available here in Women Composers of Ragtime). In addition, I added the following additional entries (no sheet music yet) here in Women Composers of Ragtime for Marie Louka:

Marie Louka. Cap and Gown March. Detroit, MI: Whitney Warner Pub. Co., 1912.

Marie Louka. Dance of the Dewdrops

Marie Louka. Dance of the Snowflakes

Marie Louka. Dance of the Toys. Detroit, MI: Whitney Warner Pub. Co., 1912.

Marie Louka. Dancing Dolls: Waltz

Louka, Marie. Flowers from the Dust (1941)?

Marie Louka. The Hour of Prayer: Reverie

Marie Louka. Karmara

Marie Louka. Mission Bells: Descriptive Tone Poem. Detroit, MI: Whitney Warner Pub. Co., 1912.

Marie Louka. Sunset on the Ocean: Reverie. Detroit, MI: Whitney Warner Pub. Co., 1912.

In addition, I added a link here to a (free) .MP3 1902 Berliner recording by Arthur Pryor's Sousa Band of Marie Louka's The Rajah March.

I increased the total listings of compositions for Blanche M. Tice, available here in Women Composers of Ragtime, by adding listings for three waltzes and two waltz songs: Swells and Bells, Valse Angeline, Valse Divine: Hesitation, When I Come Back To Erin (I Am Coming For You): Waltz Song, and When the Sun Sets in Ireland: Waltz Song.

I added links to the sheet music here in Women Composers of Ragtime and here in Ragtime Music in Canada for the following three additional pieces by Mollie King, who I assume is Canadian (based on all four of her compositions being published in Canada):

Mollie King, If My Dream Were True (song) (lyrics by Verner J. Cavers) (Montreal, QC: Harmonic Pub., 1907)

Mollie King, Niscona (song) (lyrics by Clifton H. Wright) (Montreal, QC: Royal Music, 1905)

Mollie King, The Village Barn Dance (Montreal, QC: Delmar Music, 1909)

I added the following additional entries (no sheet music yet) here in Women Composers of Ragtime for Louise V. Gustin:

Louise V. Gustin. Carmelita: A Mexican Dance (Whaley & Royce) (British Library)

Louise V. Gustin. In Love's Garden (British Library)

Louise V. Gustin. Let's Trot: Fox Trot. New York, NY: Jerome H. Remick, 1915 (British Library)

Louise V. Gustin. Maids of Paradise: Waltzes (Whaley & Royce) (British Library)

Louise V. Gustin. Waltz With Me Waltzes. New York, NY: Jerome H. Remick, 1915 (British Library)

I added the following additional entries (no sheet music yet) here in Ragtime Music in Canada for Canadian composer James B. Glionna:

James B. Glionna, At A Niagara Camp Meeting: Cake Walk And Two Step (Toronto, ON: Canadian American Music, 1903) (also added here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era)

James B. Glionna, Everett Waltz (Toronto, ON: Whaley & Royce, 1899) (also added here in Ragtime Waltzes)

James B. Glionna, Insignificant Thompson: A Swell Cake Walk And Daisy Two Step (Toronto, ON: Harry H. Sparks, 1900) (also added here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era)

James B. Glionna, Marquette: Two Step (Toronto, ON: Anglo-Canadian Music Pub. Ass., 1897)

I added the following entries here in Ragtime at the Zoo: Animal Rags (no sheet music, just bibliographic entries for now):

Chicken on the Fence (1905) (Jacob Henry Ellis) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

Gobbler’s Gambol: The New Turkey-Trot (1913) (Calvin Grooms) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

Oh, You Bear Cat Rag (1910) (Watson) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

The Race Horse Rag: Two Step (1911) (Mike Bernard) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

Tuxedo Cat Rag (Bill Edwards)

I added the following entries here in Ragtime and Food (no sheet music, just bibliographic entries for now):

Chop Suey Rag (1915) (Edward Hayne) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

Dish Rag (1909) (Floyd D. Godfrey) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

Onions: An Intermezzo Two Step (1909) (Oliver G. Wallace) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

Pretzel Pete (1906) (Hampton Durand) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

Scotch Rye: Characteristic Rag (1909) (E.W. Anderson) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

Scramble Rag (1913) (Louis Mentel) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

Some Chocolate Drops (Bonbons de Chocolat): Trot and One Step (1914) (Fred Irvin and Will Vodery) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

Velma Chocolates: Black Rag Two Step (1909) (Ernst Otto) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

Washington Pie: A Ragtime Piece (1907) (Theodore Morse) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

I added the following entries here in Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era (no sheet music, just bibliographic entries for now):

A Barn Dance Shuffle: A Rag Time Cake Walk (1902) (Wade Harrison) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

Drake’s Cake Walk (1909) (Edwin F. Kendall) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

Easy Pickin’s: Characteristic Dance and Cake-Walk (1902) (Egbert A. Van Alstyne) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

Hot off the Griddle: Novelty Cake Walk (1915) (James White) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

Kentucky Rosebuds: Cake Walk (1915) (Arthur Lange) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

Memories of the South: Cakewalk (1903) (Sig. Giorgio Minolti) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

A Rag-Time Drummer: March & Cake Walk (1901) (Chas. Kuebler) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

Rastus Johnson’s Cake Walk (1899) (A.E. Bayler) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

Razzle Dazzle: Characteristic Cake Walk & Two Step (1902) (Harry Von Tilzer) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

Smiling Remus (1901) (E. Raymond Howe) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

Southern Hospitality (1899) (Arthur Pryor) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

Syncopated Rags: An Original Cake Walk (1901) (Chas. H. Rose) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

The Vienna Rag: Cake Walk a la Strauss (1905) (Paul Rubens) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

Way Down South: Characteristic March and Cake Walk (1902) (Paul Rubens) (Available in print at University of Colorado)

I updated information on Canadian ragtime composer David Lee.

I added information on Virginia Tichenor here in Women Composers of Ragtime.

I added a link here under Sources to Dan Mouyard's excellent ragtime and stride piano website.

I added some photos to my online biography.

Wherever I mention in one of my essays the total number of pieces available, I updated the number, where applicable, wherever I added new titles included in this update. I also improved the "meta tags" on each of my pages to improve search results.

A special thanks to Luigi Ranalli for his comments on the launch of the site and for pointing out several additional pieces included in this first update.

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