Early Jazz · 1917
Tiger Rag
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
- Key
- Bb
- Time
- C
- Tempo
- ♩=132
- AO focus
- AO3
Incipit
Form
Multi-strain stomp. The most-recorded jazz tune of the 1920s. Authorship contested.
Teaching points
- Multi-strain jazz form
- ODJB controversial authorship
- AO3: race and authorship in early jazz
Full score ↓Public domain
1917 first ed, PD via 95-year rule.