 | Joplin, Scott - Great Crush Collision (1896) Piano solo |
| Composer : | Joplin, Scott (1867 - 1917) | ||||
| Instrumentation : | Piano solo4 other versions | ||||
| Style : | Jazz | ||||
| Arranger : Publisher : | Pete, Farrier (1953 - ) | ||||
| Date : | 1896 | ||||
| Copyright : | © CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 | ||||
| Added by farrierpete, 02 Jul 2021 The Crash at Crush was a one-day publicity stunt in the U.S. state of Texas that took place on September 15, 1896, in which two unmanned locomotives were crashed into each other head-on at high speed. William George Crush, general passenger agent of the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad, conceived the idea in order to demonstrate a staged train wreck as a public spectacle. No admission was charged, and train fares to the crash site – called Crush, set up as a temporary destination for the event – were offered at the reduced rate of US$2 (equivalent to $61.46 in 2019) from any location in Texas. As a result, an estimated 40,000 people—more people than lived in the state's second-largest city at the time—attended the event. Unexpectedly, the impact caused both engine boilers to explode, resulting in a shower of flying debris that killed two people and caused numerous injuries among the spectators. For the event, a tent city, called Crush, was temporarily erected on a rail line of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad about 5 miles south of the town of West in McLennan County. This included two wells that were specially constructed, tents belonging to the Ringling Brothers Circus, and a grandstand. A second railroad line was built parallel to the existing one for the event so that traffic on the main line would not be disrupted. The two 2'B locomotives used were numbered 999 (painted bright green) and 1001 (bright red). Both traveled throughout Texas months before the event to promote it. At 5 p.m., the two trains were run to opposite ends of the 6.5-mile track. They consisted of the two locomotives and old boxcars loaded with railroad ties. The locomotive drivers set the engines in motion, having previously determined exactly how much steam was given so that the trains would also meet in the middle of the track in front of the grandstand. As soon as this was done, the engineers jumped off. When the two trains met, each was traveling at about 70 km/h. What the organizers had not counted on: The collision caused both locomotives to explode boilers. Debris from the vehicles, some of considerable size, was hurled several hundred meters. Three spectators were fatally struck, and numerous were injured. Scott Joplin, who was in the area but is not certain if he saw the event, composed The Great Crush Collision March, which appeared less than a month after the event. The piece of music includes playing instructions for the musicians on how to imitate the collision sound. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_at_Crush -- -- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenbahnunfall_von_Crush -- A nice example of musical sound painting, film noises and a film score as used for background in the first SW silent films. Would still be usable today for exactly the same purpose. Scott Joplin (* between June 1867 and January 1868 at Linden, Texas; † April 1, 1917 in New York City, New York) was an American composer and classically trained pianist. More conclusive than other composers of ragtime, Joplin, who is considered the "perfecter of this style", combined elements of the Romantic piano tradition with African American folklore to create powerful miniatures. In addition to some eighty rags, Joplin has also written stage works. As 2017 marks the end of one hundred years of copyright protection, Joplin's work is now "In Public Domain". So: Any amateur video director or any other private person may download this music (PD arrangement) free of charge, save it as MP3 or .ogg, use it in video editing with his editing program or distribute the music further. Conditions of use: Free of charge! According to Creative Commons, Attribution, Non Commercial, Share Alike. So: In return for the right to use my arrangement with HQ-Sound, the software should be called "Musescore 3.6.2" and the arranger "FarrierPete@aol.com" in the credits - that's all. And of course the offer is only valid for free amateur videos, private party music or free computer games from fans, not for commercial film, advertising, video and software products that want to earn money in distribution. Sheet central : | Great Crush Collision March (5 sheet music) | | |||
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