Lazy Luke (A Raggy Drag)..1905..George L. Philpot

[Steve Harrison]

I could find no information about the composer of this very well written slow drag. The notes on the title page indicates that it was available as a banjo solo but I've never come across it in the past. The piano score was written in C/F but I find it suits the banjo better in F/Bb. I've mixed and matched the piano RH and LH parts in particular in the second part and trio. The score and MP3 are included to be added to thew library later...Steve.

[Joel Hooks]

#12 in the linked folio.  This is in A notation which transposes out to C and F.

https://archive.org/details/jacobs-grand-folio-no-4/page/n25/mode/1up

[Joel Hooks]

I'll add that Walter Jacobs, at some point, started publishing a piece so that all combinations of instruments it was published for work together.  While this was not always the case, Jacobs was pretty consistent especially later.  This sometimes finds the banjo arrangements in uncommon keys to match the piano parts.

This rule was continued for the Weidt tutor series.  I have the piano and guitar Weidt parts that I need to get around to scanning. 

While it might work better in F, the general idea was that you could play the banjo arrangement with the standard piano score, or the guitar part, or any combination of horns and strings. 

One can, with some digging, usually find full band or orchestra parts for many of the later Jacobs publications.  I have mined the Cadenza magazine and posted all of the banjo pieces on the internet archive.  The 10 issue folio set Jacobs published is a great collection of pieces in itself.  I have printed out and bound all of the 8 folios for regular banjo in one book and often play from it for evening amusement. 

[Trapdoor2]

Sounds like a fun tune!

I'll set the A notation in C and add it to the library.

[Trapdoor2]

I went to my copy of #4 and did not find "Lazy Luke". You're link references #4 but it comes up as #3 (which is where Lazy Luke resides).

Joel Hooks said:

#12 in the linked folio.  This is in A notation which transposes out to C and F.

https://archive.org/details/jacobs-grand-folio-no-4/page/n25/mode/1up

[Trapdoor2]

And...here's the C Notation, Tab and mp3.

[Steve Harrison]

Hi Joel (and Marc) thanks for the info on this. I'm always on the look out for good tunes that have dropped of the musical radar and this one is no exception...Steve. 

Joel Hooks said:

I'll add that Walter Jacobs, at some point, started publishing a piece so that all combinations of instruments it was published for work together.  While this was not always the case, Jacobs was pretty consistent especially later.  This sometimes finds the banjo arrangements in uncommon keys to match the piano parts.

This rule was continued for the Weidt tutor series.  I have the piano and guitar Weidt parts that I need to get around to scanning. 

While it might work better in F, the general idea was that you could play the banjo arrangement with the standard piano score, or the guitar part, or any combination of horns and strings. 

One can, with some digging, usually find full band or orchestra parts for many of the later Jacobs publications.  I have mined the Cadenza magazine and posted all of the banjo pieces on the internet archive.  The 10 issue folio set Jacobs published is a great collection of pieces in itself.  I have printed out and bound all of the 8 folios for regular banjo in one book and often play from it for evening amusement.