Confrey By The Waters of Minnetonka piano roll score
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ต.ค. 2024
- Artis Wodehouse has transcribed Zez Confrey's (1895-1971) 1926 Ampico piano roll 68091 arrangement of Thurlow Lieurance's song, "By the Waters of Minnetonka." She has arranged it for two pianos. Having a musical score of a roll rendition is a unique way to study the roll arranging art that developed in the United States during the 1910s through the early 1930s. Confrey was a preeminent exemplar of this uniquely American musical art form.
Regarding the origin of the song itself, around 1909, Lieurance acquired a portable cylinder recording device from Edison Records, and carried it with him whenever he went to visit Indian performers. In October 1911 he recorded a Crow (Apsalooke) (maybe Oglala Lakota Sioux) singer, Sitting Eagle, also known as Mortimer Dreamer, then living on the Crow Reservation in Montana. From this recording he took the melody for his song "By the Waters of the Minnetonka". He set it to a harp-like accompaniment, and it was published by Theodore Presser in 1913 as "an Indian love song" with words by J. M. Cavanass, becoming an instant success and going through several editions; it was also frequently recorded in the years before 1950.[
(Courtesy Wikepedia)
Confrey's refreshing roll rendition of the tune -- a set of variations -- incorporates many of the Novelty/Ragtime licks for which he was justly famous and that evoke the echo effects and the reflection of the sun in the water that the Lieurance setting suggests.
The sound source for the Confrey roll heard on this video is taken from Wodehouse's 2003 recording on the Warner Classics label, entitled "Zez Confrey Piano Rolls and Scores". For this project, Wodehouse read the original rolls into MIDI format, and they were recorded from a Yamaha Disklavier playback of this data.
For more information about Confrey's rolls, go to "Time to Remember Zez Confrey" by Artis Wodehouse at academia.edu
Terrific work, Artis. The original is an American genre classic.
Hugo classic, this where i found this song.
Top-notch performance!
Incredible performance, Confrey was a wonderfully gifited pianist-composer-transcriber!
splendid!
Congratulations to Ms. Wodehouse for her transcription which gets every single note correct, especially when the upper two stave’s go into 6/8 (triplets) at bar 129.
A lesser transcriber might have written that as dotted-eighth followed by a sixteenth, but it is precisely in triple meter.
The 1950s sock-hop rhythm Confrey gets going at measure 97 (1:34) is truly innovative, and 30 years ahead of its time!
Indeed! I hear so much rock n roll in Confrey! (And Rachmaninoff, et al.) :)
Beautiful! Thank you for your valuable work in preserving this music!
Wonderful to hear, I have an Ampico roll of this that I enjoy. Thank you for all of your work putting these out to refresh memories or begin new ones.
Ampico Its such a great roll!
By Jeeves! This is great music!
Thanks for transcribing this! I've been following you ever since you came out with the Gershwin transcriptions - thanks so much for the work you do!
By the way, I'm not sure how that's possible but I think I heard this roll on Pandora (a scott joplin radio) just a few days ago (which is why I went looking for it here on youtube). Just FYI...
Hi! I am a pianist who is mainly focus on stride piano and early jazz style. I love listening to player pianos. Do you have any scores on the website so I can download and play with another pianist?
This is very awesome, beautiful arrangement!
Hello, I know this is very late and not exactly what you asked for, but I have transcribed some piano rolls into sheet music that you might be interested in. I'm behind on posting them, but I will do so in a month, give or take.
If you ever do version for two pianos, eight hands, let me know.
Forgive my ignorance, but how was this (if it known) originally played into the piano roll machine? Was it done in multiple takes at a slow speed, as it seems impossible to be played by two hands as it is?
David Arditti - you nailed it by your phrase "if known". There's no documentation on how this roll was created by Confrey. There was possibly a conflation of hand-played material and additional notes edited into the paper roll. Or it could have been created directly to the paper roll stencil, with no recourse to any hand-playing. You are right, its unplayable by one person, and that's why I arranged it for two pianists. All that said, Confrey was a very capable pianist in the Novelty style, as his 78 rpm recordings from the 1920s testify.
@@ArtisWodehouse Thanks for that information, and thanks for reviving this forgotten work. I think it is rather beautiful. It looks as if it would work well as a two-piano duet.
This would take as long as it was created to read and learn play perfectly.
The song wouldnt be forgotten about they wouldnt forget the person who actualy learnt this song.
Really cool!!! Could you possibly make your transcription available as a pdf? I would love to try to play that 4 hands (although it might be very challenging!).
I don’t see how this could be played by two people, although one person with four arms might be able to play it.
I would love to have the PDF for this! Is it available?
Not available.
This looks incredibly fun to play! Duets anyone?
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