George L. Cobb

George Linus Cobb (født 31. august 1886, død 25. desember 1942) var en produktiv komponist som var mest kjent for å lage ragtime, både som  instrumentalkomposisjoner og ragtimesanger, selv om han skrev annen musikk som marsjer og valser.  Jack Yellen skrev ofte tekstene til sangene.
Like etter at han begynte på Syracuse University i 1905 utga han sin første komposisjon. Hans mest kjente verk er The Russian Rag basert (ganske løst) på Rakhmaninovs Preludium i cis-Moll, op.3, nr.2. Dette stykket ble komponert etter at en venn tilsynelatende utfordret Cobb om han våget å forsøke å lage ragtime ut av stykket på  restauranten. Han tok imot utfordringen, satte seg ved pianoet og begynte å spille. Til hans overraskelse satt Rakhmaninov i den samme restauranten. Han gikk bort til Cobb etter at han var ferdig å spille og sa «Nice rag, but you've got the wrong rhythm.»Foruten å komponere hadde Cobb en spalte i magasinet The Tuneful Yankee, som ble lansert i 1917 og som skiftet navn til Melody i 1918. Spalten var kjent for sin syrlige stil.


== Ragtime, marsjer, valser ==
George L. Cobb komponerte også musikken til 84 sanger (som ikke er nevnt her).

  
1905 : Mr. Yankee - March and Two Step
1906 : Fleetfoot - March
1906 : Western Life - March
1906 : The Chauffeur - March and Two Step
1907 : Parade of the Teddy Bears - Characteristic March & Two Step
1907 : Idylia - Novelette Intermezzo
1908 : A Happy Group - Barn Dance Schottische
1909 : Rubber Plant Rag - A Stretcherette
1910 : Aggravation Rag
1910 : Canned Corn Rag
1910 : That Hindu Rag
1910 : The High Brows - March and Two Step
1912 : Jolly Dancers Ostende - Latest Ball Room Dance
1912 : Lady Of The Lake
1912 : Stunning Grenadiers - March and Two Step
1913 : The Baboon Bounce - A Rag Step Intermezzo
1913 : Bunny Hug Rag - Two Step Turkey Trot
1913 : The Get-A-Way - March and Two Step
1914 : After-Glow - A Tone Picture
1914 : Knock Knees - One-Step Or Two Step
1914 : On The Q.T. - March and Two Step
1914 : Huskin' Time - A Rural One Step
1914 : Fleur D'Amour - Hesitation Waltz
1914 : La Parisia - Hesitation Waltz
1914 : Mona Lisa - Valse
1914 : That Tangoing Turk - One Step or Two Step
1914 : Sing Ling Ting - Chinese One Step
1915 : Rabbit's Foot
1915 : Golden Dawn - A Tone Picture
1915 : White Narcissus - Hesitation Waltz
1915 : Buds and Blossoms - Waltz
1915 : Law And Order - March
1915 : Brass Buttons - March and Two Step
1915 : Three Nymphs - Dance Classique
1915 : Barbary - Valse Algerienne
1915 : Young April - Novelette
1916 : Mazie King Midnight Trot
1916 : Red Rooster
1916 : Good Bye Blues
1916 : Drift Wood - Novelette
1916 : Cheops - Egyptian Intermezzo
1916 : Frangipani - Oriental Fox-Trot
1916 : Georgia Rainbow
1917 : Nautical Toddle - Fox Trot
1917 : Blue Sunshine - Waltz
1917 : Levee Land - One-Step
1917 : Blue Bird - Waltz
1917 : Some Shape - One Step
1917 : Ladder of Love - Waltz
1917 : Bone Head Blues
1917 : Hang Over Blues
1917 : You and You Waltz [avec Thomas S. Allen]
1918 : Cracked Ice Rag
1918 : Calcutta - Oriental Fox Trot
1918 : Say When
1918 : Peter Gink (Adapted from Peer Gynt) - One Step
1918 : Irish Confetti - Fox Trot
1918 : Russian Rag
1918 : Toy Poodles - Novelty One-Step
1918 : Moonbeams - Novelette
1918 : What Next! - Fox-Trot
1918 : Here's How - One Step
1918 : Treat 'Em Rough - One Step
1918 : Opals - Waltz
1919 : Alhambra - Spanish One Step
1919 : Feeding the Kitty - A Ragtime One Step
1919 : Fancies - Novelette
1919 : Hawaiian Sunset - Waltzes
1919 : Memoirs
1919 : Water Wagon Blues
1919 : Javanola - Oriental Fox Trot and One Step
1919 : Stop It! - Fox-Trot
1920 : Dust 'em Off - Rag
1920 : Asa's Toddy - One Step
1920 : Bohunkus - Novelty One Step
1920 : Umpah! Umpah! - One Step Oddity
1920 : Peek In
1921 : Hop Scotch - Fox Trot
1921 : Wild Oats - One Step
1921 : The Faun (Danse)
1921 : Torrid Dora (Toreador)
1921 : The Faun - Danse
1921 : Almond Eyes - Fox Trot
1921 : Asia Minor - Fox Trot
1921 : Across the Hot Sands - March
1921 : Shivaree - One Step
1921 : Squares and Compass - March
1921 : Put and Take - One Step
1921 : Love Lessons - Waltz
1922 : Burglar Blues - Eccentrique Fox Trot
1922 : Ghost Walk - Eccentric Novelty
1922 : Carnival Revels Dance
1922 : Love and Laughter (Pizzicato) - Novelette
1922 : Broken China - An Oriental Novelty
1922 : March of the Walking Dolls
1922 : Potato-bug Parade - An Aroostook Episode
1923 : Piano Salad
1923 : Doll Days - Novelette
1923 : Mist of Memory - Waltz
1923 : High Brows - March
1923 : The New Russian Rag
1923 : Morning Kisses Waltz
1923 : Slumber Song
1923 : A Night In India - Suite (Twilight in Reverie, The Fakirs, Dance of the Flower Girls, By the Temple of Siva et March of the Brahman Priests)
1924 : The American Broadcast March
1924 : Puddle Ducks - March Grotesque
1924 : Dance of the Satyrs
1924 : Summer Furs (A Syncopated Classic - Scarf Dance Chaminade)
1924 : Cortege of the Cyclops
1924 : Mountain Laurel Waltz [avec Irving Crocker et R.E. Hildreth]
1924 : Spooks - Eccentric Novelty
1925 : Chromatic Capers
1925 : Dementia Americana - Suite (Static and Code, Hop House Blues, Owl On The Organ og Savannah Sunset)
1926 : The Lion Tamer - Galop
1926 : "Old Ironsides" - March
1926 : Patrol Of The Pelicans
1926 : Hero Of The Game - March
1926 : Power and Glory - Processional March
1927 : Procrastination Rag
1927 : Piano Sauce
1927 : The Tipster - Eccentric March
1927 : Cubistic Rag
1929 : Snuggle Pup


== Referanser ==


== Eksterne lenker ==
(en) George L. Cobb – kategori av bilder, video eller lyd på Commons 
(en) George L. Cobb på Internet Movie Database 
(en) George L. Cobb på Discogs 
(en) George L. Cobb på MusicBrainz 
(en) Fritt tilgjengelige noter av George L. Cobb i International Music Score Library Project
lydopptak av "Russian Rag" fra Library of Congress jukebox
"Alabama Jubilee", New York: Remick Music Corp., 1915. Fra:Alabama Sheet Music Collection.
Partiturene til stykkene hans
Biografi med verkliste