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Harney, Ben [Benjamin Robertson]

ragtime piano, songwriter, singer


born: 06 Mar 1871 Middletown, Kentucky / state, USA now Louisville, Kentucky / state, USA Source: 1  

born: 1872 Source: 2  

died: 11 Mar 1938 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / state, USA Source: 1  
died: 28 Feb 1938 Source: 2  

The Music Sack has 8 items with information about Ben [Benjamin Robertson] Harney:


 1996

Mancuso, Chuck
Popular music and the underground
Foundations of jazz, blues, country, and rock, 1900-1950
Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1996, 626 p.

Number of People : 288


 1995

Tallmadge, William H.
Ben Harney : the Middlesborough Years, 1890-93
American Music, 13-2, 1995, p. 167-194

Number of People : 1


 1991

Bierley, Paul E.
Rehrig, William H.
The heritage encyclopedia of band music : composers and their music
Edited by Paul E. Bierley
William H. Rehrig
Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1991

Number of People : 8,916


 1986 Source: 1

Sadie, Stanley
Hitchcock, H. Wiley
The new Grove dictionary of American music
edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie
New York, N.Y. : Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1986. 4 v.

Number of People : 3,993


 1974

Claghorn, Charles Eugene
Biographical dictionary of American music
West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Pub. Co., 1974, 491 p.

Number of People : 3,156


 1973

Composers and their works

p. 109 In:
Jansen, David
Recorded ragtime 1897-1958
Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books / Shoe String Press, 1973, 155 p.

Number of People : 74


 1962 Source: 2

Ewen, David
Popular American composers : From revolutionary times to the present.
A biographical and critical guide
Compiled and edited by David Ewen
New York: H. W. Wilson, 1962

Number of People : 131


 1939

Witmark, Isidore
Goldberg, Isaac
The story of the house of Witmark : From ragtime to swingtime
By Isidore Witmark and Isaac Goldberg
New York: Lee Furman, Inc., 1939

Number of People : 96


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