Xylophone Rags - with Piano Accompaniment - George Hamilton Green - Copyright 1984 - in excellent condition. Purchased in the early 2000s when I was majoring in music in college and has been in a box in my closet unused since 2003. The book has my name written in the inside cover and a few marks on the front and back covers from normal use, but otherwise is in excellent condition.
Xylophone Rags includes: Chromatic Fox Trot; Cross Corners; Log Cabin Blues; Ragtime Robin; Rainbow Ripples; Triplets; Whistler; Jovial Jasper
George Hamilton Green’s Xylophone Rags contains eight original solos with piano accompaniment by the master of xylophone ragtime music. Includes information on style, performance practices, and a discography of Green’s music. Edited by Randy Eyles. Considered one of history’s greatest xylophone players, George Hamilton Green started playing at age 11 and at 13 was performing solos with his father’s band. At 19 he entered vaudeville and in one year was proclaimed “the fastest, most artistic, and most wonderful xylophonist and soloist in this country or abroad.” He was one of the most popular artists in recorded history, acting as soloist, composer, arranger, and as part of various groups including All Star Trio, Green Brothers’ Xylophone Orchestra, and Green Brothers Novelty Band. Green was a fine teacher and author of pedagogical materials; his course of 50 lessons retains importance today. His solo xylophone compositions such as “The Ragtime Robin,” “Charleston Capers” and “Caprice Valsant” still retain an enormous popularity. Upon his retirement from music in 1946, Green pursued a successful career as an artist, illustrator and cartoonist.