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Ash-cake shuffle : a characteristic march and two step
- Title
- Ash-cake shuffle : a characteristic march and two step / by D.A. Epler.
- Author
- Epler, D. A.
- Publication
- New York : Bergé Music Co., 525 Sixth Avenue, ©1899.
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Details
- Description
- 1 score (6 pages); 36 cm(525 Sixth Avenue, New York)
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Music.
- Note
- Piano Music.
- Cover title.
- "Can also be used as a polka or rag-time cake walk" -- cover.
- Also published in other instrumentations.
- Cover design includes stereotyped caricatures of a group of dancing African American children watching a woman take an ash-cake from the fireplace.
- Publisher's advertisements on p. [2].
- "A custom in the Old South of baking bread, cake etc.: A smooth, flat stone was on the hearth. This was kept hot by the falling ashes off the wood-fire, and the loaf or corn cake was put on it to be done. Hence the name of the dance or shuffle" -- note above caption.
- Call Number
- P.I. (Rag) (Epler. Ash-cake shuffle)
- OCLC
- 50125766
- Author
- Epler, D. A., composer.
- Title
- Ash-cake shuffle : a characteristic march and two step / by D.A. Epler.
- Publisher
- New York : Bergé Music Co., 525 Sixth Avenue, ©1899.
- Type of Content
- notated music
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Staff notation
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- To 1901
- Publisher No.
- B.M.Co.344-4 Bergé Music Company
- Research Call Number
- P.I. (Rag) (Epler. Ash-cake shuffle)