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First: Madison Square March (1895), The Prev.: Sand-Dancers (1907), The Return to Sextets Table Next: Fire Fly (1909) Last: Piffle Rag (1911) 		 Tattered Melody (1910)
Rag - March Characteristic

Composer:Ossusky    Suppliers: Ditty Box Enterprises
Editor:Geoff Grainger  Sextet:Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Bass+Descant/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
Publisher:Ditty Box Enterprises  Publication:DBE 1302
Audio:Listen. Sequencer: James Pitt-PayneListen. Artist: Midi Ragtime Recorder Ensemble Audio file information  

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Look and ListenLength: approx. 2½ mins.
Tattered Melody is, as the title suggests, is made up of tattered, syncopated classic themes in keeping with a then current fashion of rag-timing classics. Its form is ABACBC with a 4-bar introduction, the whole being written in the keys of Ab. The cover of the original sheet music shows a vaguely Beethovenesque wide-eyed cellist, perhaps it is his composition that is being tattered, staring at his music stand with an audience of a solitary cat. All very interesting - the composition too!
Tattered Melody was published by Jerome H. Remick & Co., New York & Detroit, USA.
A tempo of 80 crotchets/min. is suggested.

"Tattered Melody (1910)" has been recorded by:
CD tracks/info Tom Brier on "Generic" 
CD tracks/info Nora Hulse on "Cake Walks, Two Steps and Rags by Women Composers"