| Home | Recorder Music | Rec. Sextet: | The Bolo Rag (1908) |
| Composer: | Gumble (1883-1946) | Suppliers: |  |
| Editor: | Geoff Grainger | Sextet: | Tenor(Treble)/Tenor/Tenor/Tenor+Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass) |
| Publisher: | Ditty Box Enterprises | Publication: | DBE 644 |
| Audio: |   Audio file information |
Length: approx. 3½ mins.
The Bolo Rag is a ragtimer's delight. Gumble respectfully dedicated this rag to a certain Miss Marion Hauver - whoever she may have been is lost in the ragtime history of a century ago. This is an effervescent composition in a sort of sonata form of AABBACCA with a 4-bar introduction and a 4-bar coda written in C-major excepting the C-strain which is in F-major. It would be nice to know how this rag got its title: is it anything to do with Argentine gouchos, the US armed forces or did Gumble actually coin the phrase "Be on the lookout"? Who knows?
A tempo of 76 crotchets/min. is suggested.
The Bolo Rag was published by Jerome H. Remick & Co., New York & Detroit, USA.
There is also a tenor solo version of this item.
"The Bolo Rag (1908)" has been recorded by:
South Shore Circus Concert Band on "Sounds of the Circus - Volume 27" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) 
Symphonic Winds on "Ragging the Baby to Sleep"