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 
 
 
 
 
 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
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