Author: Carol J. Binkowski
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786490799
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 251

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Joseph F. Lamb (1887-1960) composed with enthusiasm and was influenced by a variety of sources, all kinds of music, cultures, traditions and the everyday. Although he is considered one of classic ragtime's "big three"--along with Scott Joplin and James Scott--he did not fit the usual profile. He was musically self-taught, held a corporate job, and composed in his spare time, yet wrote piano rags Joplin enthusiastically championed and returned to composing and well-deserved recognition long after the end of the ragtime era. This biography focuses on his music and his world, and is drawn from family and research sources. It includes a foreword by two of Lamb's children.

Author: Edward A. Berlin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190246057
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 453

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When it was first published in 1994, King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and his Era was widely heralded not only as the most thorough investigation of Scott Joplin's life and music, but also as a gripping read, almost a detective story. This new and expanded edition-more than a third larger than the first-goes far beyond the original publication in uncovering new details of the composer's life and insights into his music. It explores Joplin's early, pre-ragtime career as a quartet singer, a period of his life that was previously unknown. The book also surveys the nature of ragtime before Joplin entered the ragtime scene and how he changed the style. Author Edward A. Berlin offers insightful commentary on each of all of Joplin's works, showing his influence on other ragtime and non-ragtime composers. He traces too Joplin's continued music studies late in life, and how these reflect his dedication to education and probably account for the radical changes that occur in his last few rags. And he puts new emphasis on Joplin's efforts in musical theater, bringing in early versions of his Ragtime Dance and its precedents. Joplin's wife Freddie is shown to be a major inspiration to his opera Treemonisha, with her family background and values being reflected in that work. Joplin's reputation faded in the 1920s-30s, but interest in his music slowly re-emerged in the 1940s and gradually built toward a spectacular revival in the 1970s, when major battles ensued for possession of rights.

Author: United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chaplains, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Author: United States. Department of the Interior
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1498

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Author: United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chaplains, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Author: James Scott
Publisher:
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Category : Piano music (Ragtime)
Languages : en
Pages : 6

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Author: Larry Karp
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1615951067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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It's 1916, and time's running out for Scott Joplin. Before he dies, he wants to provide for his wife and to secure his place in musical history. He's written a musical drama. His young piano student, Martin Niederhoffer, who works as a bookkeeper at Waterson, Berlin, and Snyder Music Publishers, convinces him to try to get Irving Berlin to publish and produce the work. The next day, Niederhoffer walks into his office and finds Joplin crouched over the blood-soaked body of a young man. He hustles his teacher away; unfortunately, the two are seen leaving the building. Nell Stark, daughter of Joplin's first publisher, John Stark, hides Joplin and Niederhoffer from the police and summons her father from St. Louis to help sort out the mess. After Berlin flatly denies ever having received Joplin's play, young Niederhoffer breaks cover and engages the services of hit man Footsie Vinny, who gives Berlin a five-day deadline to come up with the manuscript. And just when things couldn't get worse, Niederhoffer's girlfriend, Birdie, is kidnapped....

Author: United States. Patent Office
Publisher:
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Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1218

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Author: New York Railroad Club
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Author: New York Railroad Club
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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