Joseph Erskine Agnew
Joseph Erskine Agnew (1868 or 1869 - December 1, 1949[1]) was a musician, arranger, music store proprietor, and music publisher in Des Moines, Iowa and later Newton, Iowa briefly. He played the mandolin.[2] He became a nationally prominent band music publisher.[3] Sheet music published by his Agnew Music Publishing Company is in the collections of the Library of Congress, the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and the University of Rochester.
He was born in Ohio.[1]
He acquired "Nappy Lee" from Joe Jordan (musician). The sheet music Agnew published for it is part of the Library of Congress holdings.[4] He copyrighted a valse by Myron A. Bickford.[5] He also copyrighted an arrangement of a work by J. Offenbach.[6] He copyrighted an arrangement of concert waltzes by Guy Sterling (musician) for the mandolin.[7]
He wrote "The 20th Century Method for Guitar" (1901, 1907).[8] He published "Musical Novelties for Mandolin Orchestra: The Cleveland Two Step".[9]
In 1917 he advertised various compositions of New Band Music in the Musical Messenger.[10]
He moved his business to Newton, Iowa where he was a band leader.[11]
He lived the last 25 years of his life in Kansas City, where he died in 1949.[1]
He sold his store to the Volkwein Brothers of Pittsburgh in 1939.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Deaths - Joseph Erskine Agnew". The Kansas City Star. December 2, 1949. p. 33.
- ^ "ccm :: Agnew, Joseph E Agnew". composers-classical-music.com.
- ^ a b Walker, Diane Parr (1983). "From "Hawk-Eye March and Quick Step" to "Caprice Hongrois": Music Publishing in Iowa". American Music. 1 (4): 42–62. doi:10.2307/3051779. JSTOR 3051779 – via JSTOR.
- ^ "Bouclaire waltzes". Library of Congress.
- ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (November 10, 1903). "Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, at Washington, D.C." Treasury Department – via Google Books.
- ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (November 10, 1916). "Catalog of Copyright Entries". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
- ^ "Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles". U.S. Government Printing Office. November 10, 1898 – via Google Books.
- ^ Noonan, Jeffrey (January 1, 2009). The Guitar in American Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar Periodicals, 1882-1933. A-R Editions, Inc. ISBN 9780895796448 – via Google Books.
- ^ "The Cleveland two step | Digital Special Collections". dl.mospace.umsystem.edu.
- ^ "Musical Messenger". 1917.
- ^ "Music Trades". Music Trades Corporation. November 10, 1919 – via Google Books.
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