Re: Pre-ragtime saloon music

Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 06:53:04 GMT
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They used to do a lot of Stephen Foster songs around that time . . . I
beleive minstrel songs and Sousa marches were popular at that time, too. I have a book (The American Bicentennial Songbook) that says 1870's songs
include:
I need thee every hour (church hymn)
John Henry (blues, about a guy who died building a railroad)
Sourwood Mountain (a Kentucky fiddle tune)
The Mulligan Guard (tune satirizing security squads for Chicago's
politicians)
Put me in my little bed (a child's song)
The Gospel Train (spiritual)
Little old sod shanty on my claim (parody of "Little old log cabin in the
lane")
Home on the range (Oh give me a home, where the buffalo roam--that one)
Out of work (commerating the 1873 financial panic)
Old Chisholm Trail (about the trail going into San Antonio)
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If it was me, though, I'd do a bunch of Stephen Foster and maybe some
minstrel stuff . . . don't know if I'd do any marches, not at a wedding,
anyway . . .
Good luck,
--Tock
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> Hi, I'm a newbie poster with a question...
>
> I've been asked to play some music at a wedding in Cheyenne, WY next month
at an old vaudeville theater on an out-of-tune ("honky-tonk") piano. The
bride wants period music that would have been played in Cheyenne saloons in
the 1880s and '90s. I have a lot of ragtime I could play, but it's mostly
Joplin and dates from 1900 on.
> So the question is, what would be appropriate music? Ragtime seems too
late a development; or rather, early ragtime (late-19th-century) doesn't
seem to have been transcribed. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance for the help!
>
> Brandon D. in Seattle
>
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