RagTime Rarities. Complete Original Music for 63 Piano Rags

From the cakewalk era of the late 1890's to the fox-trot days of the late 'teens, ragtime music embraced numerous schools, styles, and composers. This book is a selection of piano rags that extends our knowledge of the tradition and brings back in a playing edition format many time-honored favorites, and other less well-known rags, that have long been unavailable. Their variety and musical exellence will appeal to all rag enthusiasts as well as those who are discovering this rital American musical tradition for the first time.
Rag enthusiast and performer Trebor Jay Tichenor has selected these works and contributed an informative introduction on the general history of ragtime and he specific composers and pieces included here. This collection does not duplicate any of the compositions included in Classic Piano Rags (Dover, 20469-3) or Scott Joplin: Collected Piano Works (Dover, 23106-2), so you can be sure it will he a valuable addition to your music library. Whether you want to study there important works or just want to enjoy these joyful rags at your piano, this Dover edition will stand up to your use year after year.


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(Publisher, city and date are in parentheses. )

May Aufderheide:
- DUSTY RAG (J. H. Aufderheide, Indianapolis, 1908)
- THE THRILLER RAG (J. H. Aufderheide, Indianapolis, 1909)

George D. Barnard:
- ALABAMA DREAM (The John Church Company, Cincinnati, 1899)

Barney & Seymore" (actually by Theron C. Bennett?):
ST. LOUIS TICKLE (Victor Kremer Co., Chicago, 1904)

Theron C. Bennett (alias George E. Florence):
- SWEET PICKLES (Victor Kremer Co., Chicago, 1907)

Mike Bemard:
- THE STINGING BEE (Will Rossiter, Chicago, 1908)

Grace M. Bolen:
- THE SMOKY TOPAZ (Daniels, Russell & Boone, St. Louis, 1901)

Blind Boone (John W. Boone):
- SOUTHERN RAG MEDLEY 1: Strains from the Alleys (Allen Music Co., Columbia, Mo., 1908)
- SOUTHERN RAG MEDLEY 2: Strains from the Flat Branch (Allen Music Co., Columbia, 1909)

Thomas E. Broady:
- MANDY'S BROADWAY STROLL (H. A. French, Nashville, 1898)
- A TENNESSEE JUBILEE (H. A. French, Nashville, 1899)
- WHITTLING REMUS (H. A. French, Nashville, 1900)

Jerre Cammack:
- TOM AND JERRY RAG (Stark Music Co., St. Louis, 1917 [written 1906])

James Chapman & Leroy Smith:
- ONE O' THEM THINGS! (Jos. Placht & Son, St. Louis, 1904)

Homer Denney:
- CHIMES (H. R. McClure Company, Sidney, Ohio, 1910 & 1911)

Tad Fischer:
- ENCORE RAG (O. K. Houck Piano Co., Memphis, 1912)

Joseph Gearen:
- BIG FOOT LOU (Victor Kremer Co., Chicago, 1899)

Lucian Porter Gibson:
- JINX RAG (Stark Music Co., St. Louis, 1911 & 1915)
- CACTUS RAG (Stark Music Co., St. Louis, 1916)

Frank R. Gillis:
- COON HOLLOW CAPERS (Connor & Cillis, N.Y., 1899)

George Gould:
- WHOA! NELLIE! (Charles N. Daniels, San Francisco, 1915)

Harry P. Guy:
- ECHOES FROM THE SNOWBALL CLUB (Willard Bryant, Detroit, 1898)
- "CLEANIN' UP" IN GEORGIA (Willard Bryant, Detroit, 1899)

Max Hoffman:
- RAGTIME RAGS (M. Witmark & Sons, N.Y., 1898)

Abe Holzmann:
- BUNCH O' BLACKBERRIES (Feist & Frankenthaler, N.Y., 1899)
- FLYING ARROW (Leo Feist, N.Y., 1906)

Charles Hunter:
- JUST ASK ME (Frank G. Fite, Nashville, 1902)

Mark Janza:
- THE LION TAMER RAG (A. F. Marzian, New Albany, Indiana, 1913)

Harry Jentes:
- BANTAM STEP (Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., N.Y., 1916)

Charles L. Johnson:
- "DOC" BROWN'S CAKE WALK (W. Jenkins' Sons Music Co., Kansas City, Mo., 1899)

Harry (E. H.) Kelly:
- PEACEFUL HENRY (Carl Hoffman Music Co., Kansas City, Mo., 1901)

Maurice Kirwin:
- AFRICAN PAS' (John Stark & Son, St. Louis, 1902)

Sadie Koninsky:
- ELI GREEN'S CAKE WALK (JOS. W. Stern & Co., N.Y., 1898)

William H. Krell:
- SHAKE YO' DUSTERS! OR PICCANINNY RAG (The S. Brainard's Sons Co., Chicago, 1898)

Henry E. Lodge:
- SURE FIRE RAG (Victor Kremer Co., Chicago, 1910)

H. H. McSkimming:
- FELIX RAG (H. H. McSkimming Pub. Co., Kiowa, Kansas, 1910)

Kerry Mills:
- IMPECUNIOUS DAVIS (F. A. Mills, N.Y., 1899)

Will Nash:
- GLAD CAT RAG (Pioneer Music Publishing Company, Chicago, 1905)

Theodore H. Northrup:
- LOUISIANA RAG (The Thompson Music Co., Chicago, 1897)

Robert J. O'Brien:
- THE RAE PICKERS RAG (The Union Music Co., Cincinnati, 1904)

Ben Rawls & Royal Neel:
- MAJESTIC RAG (Bush and Gerts, Dallas, 1914)

Clarence H. St. John:
- COLE SMOAK (Stark Music Co., St. Louis, 1906)

James Scott:
- A SUMMER BREEZE (Dumars Music Co.; Carthage, Mo., 1903)
- THE FASCINATOR (Dumars Music Co., Carthage, 1903)
- ON THE PIKE (Dumars Music Co., Carthage, 1904)

E. Philip Severin:
- JUNGLE TIME (E. P. Severin Music Company, Moline, Ill., 1909)

L. Edgar Settle:
- X. L. RAG (A. W. Perry's Sons, Sedalia, Mo., 1903)

David H. Silverman & Arthur R. Ward:
- THAT HAND PLAYED RAG (Silverman and Ward, St. Louis, 1914)

W.C.Simon:
- SPONGE (W. C. Simon, New Orleans, 1911)

Arthur Sizemore:
- THE CLIMBERS RAG (Stark Music Co., St. Louis, 1911)

Russell Smith:
- THAT DEMON RAG (The I. Seidel Music Publishing Co., Indianapolis, 1912)

Fred S. Stone:
- MA RAG TIME BABY (Whitney-Warner Publishing Co., Detroit, 1898)

Harry C. Thompson:
- THE WATERMELON TRUST (Barron and Thompson, N.Y., 1906)

Charles A. Tyler:
- A COTTON PATCH (J. W. Jenkins' Sons Music Co., Kansas City, Mo., 1902)

William E. Weigel:
- THE SHEATH (John Arnold & Co., Cincinnati, 1908)

Percy Wenrich:
- PEACHES AND CREAM (Jerome H. Remick & Co., Detroit, 1905)
- DIXIE BLOSSOMS (Jerome H. Remick & Co., Detroit, 1906)

James White:
- THE ORIGINAL CHICAGO BLUES (Frank K. Root & Co., Chicago, 1915)

Clarence C. Wiley:
- CAR-BARLICK-ACID (Clarence C. Wiley, Oskaloosa, Iowa, 1903)

Floyd Willis:
- THE QUEEN RAG (The Jos. Krolage Music Publishing Co., Cincinnati, 1911)

C, L. Woolsey:
- MEDIC RAG (Jerome H. Remick & Co., Detroit, 1910)
- MASHED POTATOES (C. L. Woolsey Music Co., Braymer, Mo., 1911)

Frank Wooster & Ethyl B. Smith:
THE BLACK CAT RAG (Frank Wooster Co., St. Louis, 1905)