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Clarence Lockhart Partee (born
Partee took up the banjo as a profession after his parents died before he was 14, and he moved to Chicago to pursue that goal. In 1881 he began an office manager for the J. B. Schall banjo company, giving banjo lessons and meeting prominent banjo players of the time, including E. M. Hall.Vintage Banjo Maker, ''J. B. Schall''
/ref> He also began studying the guitar and the mandolin. He became a soloist performer, traveling the country and teaching the banjo, guitar and mandolin. He also composed music and became a music publisher. Places he traveled included Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Omaha and Kansas City.
/ref> * ''American Conservatory banjo method'' (1895) written with his brother Charles H. Partee OCLC, ''American Conservatory banjo method''
/ref> * ''Practical hints on modern guitar playing'' (1899) * ''American Conservatory Mandolin Method ... containing also arrangements by Mrs. C. L. Partee'' (1898) * ''Book of harmony and composition : for the violin, mandolin, guitar and banjo'' (1907)
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Bio of J. B. Schall, banjo maker, for whom Pardee worked.
Bio of E. M. Hall, a prominent banjo player.
Another E. M. Hall biography.
Fretted Instrument Guild of America website.
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Clarence Lockhart Partee (born Concord, North Carolina
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January 20, 1864, died Manhattan, New York April 17, 1915) was an American composer and arranger and music publisher.New York, New York, Death Index, 1862-1948, ''Clarence L. Partee'', Certificate Number: 11205 He was also founder, editor and publisher of ''The Cadenza'' magazine, and devoted his life to teaching and advancing the banjo, mandolin and guitar, arranging more than 150 works for these three instruments. He was a charter member of the ''American Guild of Banjoists, Mandolinists & Guitarists'', now two separate organizations, the ''American Guild of Music'' and the ''Fretted Instrument Guild of America ''.American Guild of Music, ''AGM History''Partee took up the banjo as a profession after his parents died before he was 14, and he moved to Chicago to pursue that goal. In 1881 he began an office manager for the J. B. Schall banjo company, giving banjo lessons and meeting prominent banjo players of the time, including E. M. Hall.Vintage Banjo Maker, ''J. B. Schall''
/ref> He also began studying the guitar and the mandolin. He became a soloist performer, traveling the country and teaching the banjo, guitar and mandolin. He also composed music and became a music publisher. Places he traveled included Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Omaha and Kansas City.
''The Cadenza''
Partee settled in Kansas City about 1890, where his magazine ''The Cadenza'' was published, beginning with the September/October 1894 issue. ''The Cadenza was'' "the first legitimate, high class magazine devoted to the interests of ... players at large of the banjo, mandolin and guitar." Partee set his own standard, keeping the tone "literary" and the content educational, and as a result, improved the overall standard for magazines of this type. In an effort to expand his magazine's reach, Partee moved it from the Midwest to the New England area and added content tailored toward the cosmopolitan crowd, with stylish women on the cover and stories of banjo, mandolin and guitar players who had found success and love through their music. He also branched out adding sections to the magazine for voice, violin, harp and piano. Partee chose a non-standard niche for ''The Cadenza'', promoting sheet music rather than specific musical instruments. Another content difference noted by the ''Musical Journal'' was that the ''Cadenza'' did not devote itself to advertising the owner's merchandise or vilifying his competitors, unlike in other musician-oriented magazines. Partee moved his ''Cadenza'' to New York in 1900, and it was bought in May 1908 by Boston publisher Walter Jacobs. Jacobs ceased publication in 1924.Works
He was the author of:WorldCat Identities, ''Partee, Clarence L''/ref> * ''American Conservatory banjo method'' (1895) written with his brother Charles H. Partee OCLC, ''American Conservatory banjo method''
/ref> * ''Practical hints on modern guitar playing'' (1899) * ''American Conservatory Mandolin Method ... containing also arrangements by Mrs. C. L. Partee'' (1898) * ''Book of harmony and composition : for the violin, mandolin, guitar and banjo'' (1907)
Music
* ''De Coontown Jubilee''.Cake Walk
The cakewalk was a dance developed from the "prize walks" (dance contests with a cake awarded as the prize) held in the mid-19th century, generally at get-togethers on Black slave plantations before and after emancipation in the Southern Uni ...
. Banjo Solo by Clarence L Partee (1897)
* ''Prairie rose waltz''. By Clarence L. Partee and J.C. Groene & Co, (1890)OCLC WorldCat, ''Prairie Rose Waltz''/ref>
See also
*List of mandolinists (sorted)
This is a list of mandolinists, people who have specifically furthered the mandolin by composing for it, by playing it, or by teaching it. They are identified by their affiliation to the instrument.
First generation mandolinists (c. 1744 - 1880 ...
References
Bibliography
* * * *External links
Bio of J. B. Schall, banjo maker, for whom Pardee worked.
Bio of E. M. Hall, a prominent banjo player.
Another E. M. Hall biography.
Fretted Instrument Guild of America website.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Partee, Clarence L. 1864 births 1915 deaths 19th-century American composers 19th-century American guitarists 19th-century American male musicians 20th-century American composers 20th-century American guitarists 20th-century American male musicians American banjoists American classical guitarists American classical mandolinists American male composers American male guitarists American music arrangers American music educators American music publishers (people) American performance artists Classical musicians from Missouri Classical musicians from New York (state) Educators from Missouri Educators from New York City Guitarists from Missouri Guitarists from New York City Guitarists from North Carolina Musicians from Kansas City, Missouri People from Concord, North Carolina 19th-century American businesspeople American classic-fingerstyle banjoists