Rec. Sextet: Recorder Music

Impecunious Davis (1899) Characteristic Two-step, March and Cake-Walk

Composer:	Mills (1869-1948)	Suppliers:
Editor:	Geoff Grainger	Sextet:	Descant/Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
Publisher:	Ditty Box Enterprises	Publication:	DBE 319
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Length: approx. 3 ¾ mins. Sounds best with 1st tenor and bass doubled.
In his original sheet music, Kerry Mills had this to say about Impecunious Davis:
"Davis lived in Black Creek, a small town on the Mississippi, just north of New Orleans. He was never known to have earned anything, and depended entirely on the charitableness of the surrounding inhabitants for his existence; in fact, he considered that he was a child of Nature, and the World owed him a living.
The white folks called him 'IMPECUNIOUS DAVIS'.
In a peculiarly contented happy-go-lucky way he would lounge about the levees for hours at a time, humming quaint, weird, haunting melodies; some of these had a patriotic flavor, which was probably due to his living at the time of the war of Rebellion.
The composer takes this opportunity of portraying the musical eccentricities of 'IMPECUNIOUS DAVIS' "

As it is, this is a lively heavily chorded piece requiring careful performance in the upper registers.
A tempo of 80 crotchets/min. is suggested.
Impecunious Davis was published by F.A. Mills New York.
This recorder adaptation is respectfully dedicated to Pat Edgell, old salt, now of Portland, England and decidedly not impecunious.

"Impecunious Davis (1899)" has been recorded by:
 Jenks/Grinstead on "Ragtime Bigtime" RealAudio