The instrumental numbers on this recording, on the other hand, are uniform in both style and composer: piano rags of Scott Joplin. Composed during the same period as the songs (1901-1909), they offer a glimpse of the most popular instrumental music of the day. While Joplin was not the only ragtime composer who was successful at this time (others included Tom Turpin, Louis Chauvin, James Scott, Joseph Lamb, and Scott Hayden), Joplin was the most musically sophisticated, refined and prolific, with an oevre of some five hundred compositions.
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The arrangements on this recording, on the other hand, accurately reproduce the piano accompaniments originally published, including melodic interludes and original bass lines. In some cases, the original is subtly amplified with additional countermelodies or fuller harmonies, in the way an accomplished pianist will improvise a slightly fuller version of the accompaniment based on his abilities, experience and knowledge of style. In the case of the ragtime solos, these arrangements are fully faithful to the originals. In fact, they work extremely well on the guitar and sound quite at home there! This music becomes more personal in these readings with the guitar than is possible on the piano, and we feel that this more intimate aesthetic is highly effective and eminently suitable; that it is, in fact, in the true spirit of the originals.
This much is for sure: Bowman lived most of his life on the near South Side with his older sister Mary, who taught piano for about a half-century. The Bowmans lived on Missouri Avenue in 1900 when Euday was thirteen. Sister Mary was listed in the census as a music teacher. (Note the solidly Fort Worth name of the census enumerator. Kleber Van Zandt Jennings was the son of Hyde Jennings [as in our Hyde Park and Jennings Avenue] and Florence Van Zandt Jennings, daughter of Khleber Miller Van Zandt.) 2ff7e9595c
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