1897 in music

Events

• The Cakewalk matures into Ragtime music
• John Philip Sousa's band makes phonograph recordings of Cakewalks and early Ragtime
• early publications by Scott Joplin

Published popular music

• "Asleep In The Deep"     w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Henry W. Petrie
• "At A Georgia Camp Meeting"     w.m. Kerry Mills
• "Badinage"     m. Victor Herbert
• "Beautiful Isle Of Somewhere"     w. Mrs Jessie Brown Pounds m. John S. Fearis
• "Break The News To Mother"     w.m. Charles K. Harris
• "Danny Deever"     w. Rudyard Kipling m. Walter Damrosch
• "Harlem Rag"     m. Tom Turpin
• "Louisiana Rag" m. Theodore H. Northrup
• "On The Banks Of The Wabash Far Away"     w.m. Paul Dresser
• "Our Lodger's Such A Nice Young Man"     w.m. Fred Murray & Laurence Barclay
• "Roustabout Rag"     m. Paul Sarebresole
• "The Shuffling Coon" by J. R. Todd
• "Song Of India"     m. Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov
• "Stars And Stripes Forever"     m. John Philip Sousa
• "Syncopated Sandy" by Wayburn & Whiting
• "Take Back Your Gold"     w.m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld
• "There's A Little Star Shining For You"     w.m. James Thornton
• "Ye Boston Tea Party" by Arthur Pryor

Musical theater

• The Charlatan     Broadway production
• The Circus Girl     Broadway production
• The Glad Hand     Broadway production
• Pousse Café     Broadway production

Classical music

• The Sorceror's Apprentice m. Paul Dukas

Births

• April 19 - Vivienne Segal, US actress and singer
• May 14 - Sidney Bechet
• July 11 - Blind Lemon Jefferson
• September 8 - Jimmie Rodgers
• November 2 - Dennis King, British singer and actor
• Aileen Stanley

Deaths

• April 3 - Johannes Brahms

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