what is the song structure to joseph lamb's "sensation". I need it in done in letters please...
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1) Introduction
That Joseph Lamb was a white man composing such intricate ragtime music is not that significant since there were a number of important white composers of ragtime (George Botsford, George Cobb and Percy Wenrich, for example), and it would be debatable in any event to argue that ragtime composition is somehow race-dependent. What is significant about Joseph Lamb is his relatively late introduction to ragtime (at the age of 18) and his isolation from the ragtime community other than a brief meeting and friendship with Scott Joplin. In addition, unlike many ragtime composers, it would seem that writing ragtime was merely a hobby for Joseph Lamb who otherwise worked full-time in the garment industry and did relatively little live performing. Lamb also was able to live a relatively long life (he passed away at age 72) which meant that he was able to partake in the ragtime revival, if only briefly; to this extent, he is alone with Eubie Blake being the only other original ragtime personality to have taken part in the renewed interest in ragtime music.
Jasen and Tichenor in Rags and Ragtime: A Musical History (1978: 124) argue that "Lamb was the consummate ragtime composer, the genius who possessed the ability to synthesize the best from all of the Folk, Classic and Popular ragtime music worlds into stirring works of his own great originality." Schafer and Riedel (1973: 85) in the Art of Ragtime: For and Meaning of an Original Black American Art echo these comments:
. . . Lamb wrote very lively and completely organized rags; their thrust not toward technical or emotional complexity but toward lyrical flow, transparent vitality, and constant motion. Rags like "Cottontail Rag," "Reindeer Rag," and "The Ragtime Nightingale" show a powerful consistency of lyrical and rhythmic invention. Lamb's work is fully worthy of Scott or Joplin, and his rags are as "Negroid" and as individualized as anything written in ragtime.
2) Life of Joseph Lamb (6 December 1887 – 3 September 1960)
Much has been written on Joseph Lamb's life (see the bibliography below for more detailed information). Here are a few fast facts about his life:
Joseph Francis Lamb was born December 6, 1887, in Montclair, New Jersey.
Lamb had a brother James and two sisters, Anastasia and Katharine, from whom Lamb claims to have learned the piano.
In 1901, Lamb went to school at St Jerome's College (now St Jerome's University) in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario, after death of his father on October 4, 1900.
Lamb took lessons from a priest at the school but quit after six weeks or so because "the good father had nothing to offer Joe" (Scotti 1977: 15-16).
Lamb is quoted as having said "I never took lessons, and I can't explain how I happened to be able to write the rags I did. At about eight I started to fool around on the piano, but didn't know one note from another – on the piano or on the music": from Cassidy (1961: 4) cited by (Scotti 1977: 15).
McCarthy (1974: 20) quotes Amelia Lamb as follows on her husband's school days in Canada:
Joe used to laugh when he remembered those days at the college. He was so homesick that he wrote his mother and told her that if she didn't send him the fare home, he'd walk to New Jersey. I'm surprised he didn't ... he was so strong-willed.