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Composer:Stokes  (1882-)   Suppliers: Ditty Box Enterprises
Editor:Geoff Grainger  Quintet:Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
Publisher:Ditty Box Enterprises  Publication:DBE 994
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Look and ListenLength: approx. 3¾ mins. Sounds best with the 1st tenor doubled.
Checkers is a cheerful and melodious two step of charm and simplicity. Its form is AABBACCBB with a 4-bar introduction and a 4-bar interlude between the CC-and BB-strains. The keys used are F- and Bb-major for the AABBA- and CCBB-strains respectively. What this piece quite has to do with the stern looking officer in the Austro-Hungarian uniform shown on the on the cover of the original sheet music is anyone's guess.
Checkers was published by the Whitney-Warner Publishing Co., Detroit, Michigan, USA.
A tempo of 80 crotchets/min. is suggested.

"Checkers (1903)" has been recorded by:
CD tracks/info Nora Hulse on "Cake Walks, Two Steps and Rags by Women Composers"