Efficiency Rag (1917)
Last updated: 24.01.24
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Composer: J.S. Scott Suppliers: dbe15.gif
Editor: Geoff Grainger Sextet D+GK/A/T/T/B/GB(B)
Publisher: Ditty Box Enterprises Publication: DBE 104
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Length: approx. 3 ½ mins. Sounds best with descant doubled with garklein or sopranino.
Efficiency Rag is a very fine rag with many fine touches (especially in the B section for my taste) and dare it be said, an extremely efficient one too! Its form is AABBACCBB whereby the AABBA and CCBB sections are in the major keys of C and F respectively. Use of the garklein (or sopranino) comes into effect after bar 62 and is intended to avoid excessive "squeakiness" - please experiment. How the rag came to its title is no longer known. Perhaps it reflects it being one of the first wartime 4-page publications, a novelty when compared with its 6- to 8-page peacetime predecessors. Or it may even be that the Quaker publisher John Stark utilised some spare artwork for the cover of the original sheet music as it is hard to reconcile this jolly rag with the somewhat stern young lady staring at the horizon gracing the title page.
Efficiency Rag was published by Stark Music Co, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
A tempo of 90 crotchets/min. is suggested.
  Composer Sequencer
     
audiomidi15.gif J.S. Scott Sakae Watanabe
  Composer Performer Instruments
       
audiodbemp315.gif J.S. Scott Midi Ragtime Recorder Ens. D+GK/A/T/T/B/GB(B)
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cd15.gif Jazzou Jones Hilarity flag15us.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15es.gif
cd15.gif Franklin Kennedy Ragtime The Music Of James Scott CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) flag15us.gif
cd15.gif Various Artists Classic Ragtime from Rare Piano Rolls CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) flag15us.gif flag15uk.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15ca.gif flag15it.gif
cd15.gif Various Artists Ragtime - The Best Of James Scott flag15us.gif
cd15.gif Guido Nielsen James Scott: The Complete Works 1903-1922 CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) flag15us.gif flag15uk.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15ca.gif flag15it.gif flag15es.gif
cd15.gif Royce Reynolds Ragtime The James Scott Songbook CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) flag15us.gif
cd15.gif Bennet Sayles Ragtime Heroes: The James Scott Songbook flag15us.gif
cd15.gif Steven Williams Classic Ragtime From Rare Piano Rolls flag15us.gif flag15uk.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15ca.gif flag15it.gif flag15es.gif
     Title Attribution Instruments Source Remarks
           
pdf15.gif Efficiency Rag (1917) J.S. Scott (music) Piano Ragtime Piano wvicon.gif
pdf15.gif Efficiency Rag (1917) J.S. Scott (music) Piano IMSLP Pub.