Mississippi Rag by W.H. Krell (1897)

Original listing and sheet music here: https://musescore.com/user/36482158/s...
"Two-Step. The First Rag-Time Two-Step Ever Written, and First Played by Krell's Orchestra Chicago." This was historically one of the very first scores to call itself a rag, even though technically it's not a rag but instead a collection of cakewalk melodies collected and transcribed by Krell. It's arranged in the "patrol" style which mimics the point of view of an observer of a parade marching by, first soft then louder then soft again. William Krell was a band leader from Chicago who composed a number of pieces mainly during the 1890s. This one was published in 1897 by S. Brainard in Chicago.

Original score source was from the Charles Templeton Sheet Music Collection at Mississippi State University at this link:
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/...
This is a reproduction of the original score, no changes were made.

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