Contentment Rag by Joseph Lamb

[thereallyniceman]

Steve has produced another ragtime arrangement for classic banjo, and he describes this as "a pleasant slow rag and quite easy to play."   so we should all have a go !!!

I have added the score to the MUSIC LIBRARY along with a midi file.

[thereallyniceman]

Steve,

  I believe that Lamb only published 12 rags,

.... and you have done a couple already, so the rest should be a breeze .

 ;-)

[Steve Harrison]

Hi Ian, I've managed to get copies of most of the scores but some of the early ones are proving difficult to find. I'll keep trying and then maybe post the missing scores to see if anyone else has more luck. I rather like ragtime nightingale, it looks a real challenge for banjo but I'll put it on the to do list and see how it goes....Steve.

[Trapdoor2]

Paul Ely Smith recorded "Ragtime Nightengale" on the banjo (solo) back in 1982. I contacted him a few years ago and asked him whether he still had his arrangement, etc. He laughed and told me worked it out and played it by ear...never wrote it out.

[Steve Harrison]

Hi Marc, I've just completed my arrangement  of Ragtime Nightingale, which will be posted as soon as Ian's ears have done their job and debugged it for me. It's a complex piece of music and to be able to do a full and accurate ear arrangement without writing it down would have been one heck of an achievement!

All the best...Steve.

rapdoor2 said:

Paul Ely Smith recorded "Ragtime Nightengale" on the banjo (solo) back in 1982. I contacted him a few years ago and asked him whether he still had his arrangement, etc. He laughed and told me worked it out and played it by ear...never wrote it out.

[thereallyniceman]

I have just uploaded the score for Steve, but one thing that I have noticed is that despite me knowing the score as "Ragtime Nightingale"... it appears to actually be called:

[Trapdoor2]

Yes. However, the first page of the music is titled "Ragtime Nightingale". Go figure!

According to Ted Tjaden:

"Lamb's Ragtime Nightingale, intended in part to mimic the sounds of a nightingale, was written in response to James Scott's Ragtime Oriole even though it is likely that James Scott did not intend his work to be birdlike.
The opening arpeggiated chord from Ragtime Nightingale is likely based on Chopin's Etude in C Minor, Opus 10, no. 12, a piece of music Lamb was likely familiar with through Etude magazine."

Read about Lamb here: http://www.ragtimepiano.ca/rags/lamb.htm