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Composer:Gustin  (c. 1870-1910)   Suppliers: Ditty Box Enterprises
Editor:Geoff Grainger  Quintet:Treble/Tenor/Bass+Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
Publisher:Ditty Box Enterprises  Publication:DBE 426
Audio:Listen. Sequencer: J. Pitt-PayneListen. Artist: Midi Ragtime Recorder Ensemble Audio file information  

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Look and ListenLength: approx. 2¾ mins.
An Old Virginia Cake Walk is fine, spirited two step with lyrical strains that just beg to be whistled to - just the stuff for adaptation for recorder ensemble. Its form is AABBCCB with a 4-bar introduction and a 4-bar interlude between the B- and C-strains whereby the AABB- and CCB-strains are in the major keys of G and C respectively.
The cover of the original sheet music is graced with a colourfully clothed, smiling and dignified cakewalking pair - quite a contrast to many of the hideous caricatures of that period.
An Old Virginia Cake Walk was published by Belcher & Davis, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
A tempo of 180 crotchets/min. is suggested.

"An Old Virginia Cake Walk (1899)" has been recorded by:
CD tracks/info Nora Hulse on "Cake Walks, Two Steps and Rags by Women Composers"