THE THOMPSONIAN INSTITUTION:
RAGTIME LINKS

The Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation (Annual Ragtime Festival - Sedalia, MO)
The Scott Joplin House and Museum (St. Louis, MO)
The Friends of Scott Joplin (St. Louis, MO)

Scott Joplin Web Ring (Links to ragtime sites)

Ted Tjaden's Ragtime Site (Great site for sheet music!)

Perfessor Bill Edwards website (Biographies, MIDI files, sheet music)

"What A Wonderful World" - Volume 1: Ragtime (MIDI files)

Duke University Historic Sheet Music Collection

Johns Hopkins University Historic Sheet Music Collection

A Ragtime Compendium by Michael Mathew

Ragtime Press (Sue Keller)

Rag's Rag (Sheet music and audio files)

Dee Family (Sheet music collection):    Joseph Lamb       Scott Joplin       James Scott

Warren Trachtman's Ragtime Page (MIDI files)

Jack Rummel's Ragtimers.org (with reviews of ragtime folios and CDs)

San Antonio Ragtime Society

Swedish Ragtime Page (MIDI files)

MP3 DOWNLOADS:

"Joseph Lamb: A Study in Classic Ragtime" (paid MP3 download: Joseph Lamb playing his own rags in 1959)

"Piano Rags by Scott Joplin", played by Joshua Rifkin (paid MP3 download from Amazon.com)
"James Scott: Complete Works", played by Guido Nielsen (paid MP3 download from Boomkat)

"Scott Joplin: Complete Rags, Marches & Waltzes", played by Guido Nielsen (paid MP3 download from Boomkat)

"Joseph Lamb: Complete Stark Rags", played by Guido Nielsen (paid MP3 download from Boomkat)

RAGTIME PERFORMERS AND COMPOSERS THAT I HEARD IN SEDALIA :


BOOKS ABOUT RAGTIME:

Ragtime: An Encyclopedia, Discography and Sheetography by David A. Jasen (ISBN 0415978629)

King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era by Edward Berlin (ISBN 0195101081)

They All Played Ragtime by Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis (ISBN 082560091X)

ARTICLES ABOUT RAGTIME:

Bittersweet Rag (Missouri's contribution to the music world)

Joplin's hand-played piano roll of "Pleasant Moments" discovered


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