All the recorder ragtime works which I purchased had the same property, they all were either arranged for the traditional recorder consort (D/A/T/B) ensuring that each voice had plenty to do. It was not until 1998 however, when I worked on my first Joplin arrangement, The Augustan Club Waltzes (1901) together with Blue Tuesday, that I finally realised what the problem was. Considering the vast amount of recorder literature available, literally thousands of items of sheet music, the percentage of this dedicated to ragtime is abysmally small.ĭelightful and charming as these few items are/were, I was always just a little disappointed because of the resulting thin sound partly due no doubt to the inexperience of myself and players involved (a notable exception is the Stan Davis arrangement of Paul Desmond's Take Five). I was so enchanted that thereafter I was always on the look-out for more ragtime music for the recorder and over the years purchased everything I came across. My simple answer is why not!! My interest in ragtime first started when I first came across the Hugh Blake arrangement of Scott Joplin's Fig Leaf Rag in Consort With a Swing for a recorder quartet (descant, treble, tenor and bass). Please 'click' the above menu tabs for relevant lists covering books, CDs, sheet music and more. This webpage was started on 3rd March, 2003 and deals with adaptions of music from the cakewalk ragtime era, very roughly from 1880 to 1923, for the recorder.

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