E.T.PAULL: THE JOLLY BLACKSMITHS; March-Two-Step, 1905

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THE JOLLY BLACKSMITHS; by E.T. Paull & E. Braham; E.T. Paull Music, New York 1905If you pulled this up item under the first category -- about "cast iron," you're considering a bid for the wonderful color lithograph cover, not the music. It is a truly fine piece of cover art, and offers what is surely an accurate picture of the blacksmith's tools of 100 years ago. This is typical of the lure of a Paull publication. The music's OK, and quite characteristic of its day. But the covers! They are NOT characteristic of the often sentimental slap-dash art that sold lots of other sheet music in the early 20th Century. But you are to view a wonderful piece of litho-art that takes you inside a blacksmith shop in 1905.But THE JOLLY BLACKSMITHS is also listed under the category " sheet music/rag", and it clearly lacks the heavy syncopations that mark the growing number of real Ragtime pieces appearing by 1905. No, it is just what Mr. Paull's sub-title says it is: a March and Two-Step. But maybe he was hoping to interest the growing number of rag players too, back in 1905. Instead of his usual 6/8 march signature, he goes for the other useable march-time of 2/4, like the rags. And he foregoes his usual "descriptive" remarks, as the piece moves along -- just one good march theme after another. The pattern of themes resembles that of the popular read more

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