Peacherine Rag

The fellow playing
is a teacher and
pro
piano
player
from
the
University of Florida - BachScholar.
You can hear many of his videos on YouTube.
He plays ragtime music at a tempo and style
that you can listen to for an hour and not get tired of it.
I do enjoy the music played by Cory Hall and I listen to almost all of his recordings on YouTube. He has his own channel and plays many many different types of piano tunes.

Worth your time to find him and enjoy his work and the information that he provides.
Website:http://www.BachScholar.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/BachScholar#grid/user/C1C0F1BFEAADCC4E

BachScholar says.....
There has been much attention given recently to Joplin's "slow" and "not fast" indications, which are often misleading if taken literally. Never has there been a composer in the history of music who wrote only slow music, but rather all the great composers included a wide gamut of speeds and emotions from slow to moderate to fast. Joplin certainly was no exception, meaning that it would be too one-sided and simplistic to take his "slow" and "not fast" indications literally and never play any of his rags in a lively fashion. Joplin probably became obsessed with "slow" and "not fast" indications to guard against outrageously fast tempos
http://www.youtube.com/user/BachScholar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTRUSmCtpD0&feature=related

Parlor Songs.....

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An amazing website. Years of study and research about music from 1850 to 1920.

Parlor Songs says....
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Ragtime Station1528 only references items here that I find intesting.

If you want real knowledge and education
about early music of America please visit this site.

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Dengozo....Ernesto Nazareth

DENGOZO TANGO...BY ERNESTO NAZARETH

Watch this one....it's only about a minute long.
I don't think you will see this on Dancing with the Stars.



Nazareth was a famous composer from Brazil. His music was international and often
thought to be Parisian but only because it was performed so widely in Paris.
This little clip is Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (I know you thought that was Linda and Mike) performing a tango called The Maxixe Tango.
Maxixe (pronounced Ma-chee-ch)

Ernesto Nazareth (1863-1934) was born and lived throughout his life in Rio de Janeiro. Raised in a modest home, he began piano lessons with his mother and then studied with family friends Eduardo Madeira and Lucien Lambert. His unusual talents were recognized at an early age when, at fourteen, his first piano composition, the polka-lunda Voce bem sabe was published.

During this time musical life in Brazil was a rich tapestry of imported European art music and indigenous folk music performed by the chorinhos. The chorinhos were serenading bands who played a variety of string and wind instruments including guitar, mandolin and ukelele, flute and clarinet. These street musicians improvised on traditional Brazilian folks melodies and rhythms very often flavored with “blues-like” tunes known as choros. For Nazareth, these musical currents were among the ideas which charged his own imagination at the keyboard.

PlayerPiano

UKULELE LADY.....
Sounds fun on an old player piano. These use to be something that a lot of people had in their homes along with hundreds of rolls of songs. The paper was punched with holes and the piano would read the holes in the paper and play the notes.
My aunt had an old player piano and you would set with your feet at the base of the piano and pump a pedal as hard as possible to provide the power for the piano to play. The one in this recording is powered by electricity.

UKULELE LADY© 1925
Lyrics & Music: Lyrics: Gus Kahn, Music: Richard A. Whiting
Verse: I saw the splendor of the moonlight
On Honolulu bay
There’s something tender in the moonlight
On Honolulu
And all the beaches
Are full of peaches
Who bring their ukes along
And in the glimmer of the moonlight
They like to sing this song
Chorus: If you like ukulele lady
Ukulele lady like-a you
If you like to linger where it’s shady
Ukulele lady linger too
If you kiss ukulele lady
And you promise ever to be true
And she finds another ukulele
Lady fooling ’round with you
Maybe she’ll sigh (and maybe not)
Maybe she’ll cry
Maybe she’ll find somebody else
By and by
To sing to where it’s cool and shady
Where the tricky wicki wacki woo
If you like ukulele lady
Ukulele lady like-a you
She used to sing to me by moonlight
On Honolulu Bay
Fond memories cling to me by moonlight
Although I’m far away
Someday I’m going
Where eyes are glowing
And lips are made to kiss
To meet somebody in the moonlight
To hear that song I miss

Ragtime

Everything you could possibly want to know about Ragtime.....
"PERFESSOR" Bill Ragtime
http://www.perfessorbill.com

Ragtime, a uniquely American, syncopated musical phenomenon, has been a strong presence in musical composition, entertainment, and scholarship for over a century. It emerged in its published form during the mid-1890s and quickly spread across the continent via published compositions. By the early 1900s ragtime flooded the music publishing industry. The popularity and demand for ragtime also boosted sale of pianos and greatly swelled the ranks of the recording industry.

MAPLE LEAF RAG......



http://www.youtube.com/user/BachScholar#grid/user/C1C0F1BFEAADCC4E

Ragtime seemed to emanate primarily from the southern and midwestern states with the majority of activity occurring in Missouri -- although the East and West coasts also had their share of composers and performers. Ragtime's popularity promptly spread to Europe and there, as in America, soon became a fad.