Gamelan Ragtime Novelties

Our Newest Gamelan and Marimba Arrangements

Our Gamelan Ragtime Novelties are all free and you can hear a streamed selection before you download the complete tune .

Some of these novelties have very strange titles viewed from this century and the musical content can be somewhat whimsical or require amazing dexterity on the part of the pianists for whom they were originally composed.

Our new arrangements are based on MIDI transcriptions of the original sheet music most of which was published ten years either side of 1900 in the USA. Many of the transcriptions in this selection were produced by John Cowell and have been put into the public domain without restriction. Weused a digital sample based version of the Indonesian Gamelan together with a selection of digital Marimbas. With trial and error a consistent set up was developed and then adapted for each recording. We have sought to emphasise the contrast between the two voices of the piano music whilst emphasising the rhythmic content.

There are more Gamelan Ragtime tracks on the Rags, Dances, Intermezzos, and Marches pages.