File:"Tattered Melody Rag", by Hilda Ossusky (1910).oga

Here's a clever rag which got published with major publisher Jerome H. Remick in New York in 1910. I'll let Geoff Grainger from the website grainger.de do the talking: "Tattered Melody is, as the title suggests, made up of tattered, syncopated classic themes in keeping with a then current fashion of rag-timing classics...The cover of the original sheet music shows a vaguely Beethovenesque wide-eyed cellist, perhaps it is his composition that is being tattered, staring at his music stand with an audience of a solitary cat. All very interesting - the composition too!"

Regarding the composer Hilda Ossusky Geoff says: "Hilda Ossusky was an American pianist of whom practically nothing is known except the few facts gleaned from the three sheet music covers of her works all published in 1910. Of ragtime interest is her Tattered Melody".

Score #79 in my current ongoing series "Women Ragtime Composers".

Original score source was from the Charles Templeton Collection at this link: https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/cht-sheet-music/3686/

This is a reproduction of the original score, no changes were made.

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