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Cakewalks in the Ragtime Era

Featuring Mississippi Rag (1897) by William Krell and other Cakewalks and Earlier Rags

 

By Ted Tjaden

(originally published June 2006 and updated periodically)

 


Sheet music available on this page:

See below to download or view (for free) over 160 cakewalk compositions

Recommended reading:

Morgan, Thomas. From Cakewalks to Concert Halls: An Illustrated History of African American Popular Music from 1895 to 1930. Washington, DC: Elliott & Clark Pub, 1992.

 

Cakewalks and cakewalk music were an important and likely necessary precursor in the late 1800's to the development of classic ragtime piano music. Although cakewalks and ragtime piano are technically distinct styles of music, they are often lumped together due to their similarities in origin and influences. Set out below on this page are the following links with more information on cakewalks in the ragtime era, including (free) links to 170 pieces of cake walk sheet music:

1)  Introduction to Cake Walks in the Ragtime Era
2)  Recordings of Cakewalks
3)  Online Cake Walk Sheet Music
4)  Bibliography

1)  Introduction to Cake Walks in the Ragtime Era [top]

Although the American cakewalk dates back to the early days of slavery, the cakewalk as a distinct music and dance style had its formal beginning in the 1870's and reached its peak of popularity at the end of the 19th century and early 20th century. Unlike classic piano ragtime, cakewalk music was meant to be danced to and often performed by a small orchestra or band. Although cakewalks were generally lightly syncopated, their melodies and harmonies were generally not as sophisticated as those found later in the classic rags of Joplin, Scott and Lamb.

It is thought that cakewalks were once called the "chalk-line walk," which "was a dance done by couples along a straight path, balancing buckets of water on their heads" (Haskins 1990:11). The form of dance evolved into a "cake" walk based on the fact that white slave owners awarded a "cake" to the best dancers among their slaves:

The cakewalk originated as a slave dance contest in the antebellum South. White slave owners were fond of awarding cakes to the best slave dancers at special social gatherings (Morgan and Barlow 1992:26).

The notion that prize winners would be awarded a cake is believed to be the origin of the sayings "that takes the cake" and it was a "piece of cake."

For a typical cakewalk "scene" (albeit, a racial stereotype), click on the cover to The Cake-Walk in the Sky (to the right).

Image  source: University of Colorado Digital Sheet Music Collection

Cake Walk in the Sky Sheet Music
                                Cover

As can be seen in the video below, cakewalking involved exaggerated steps with high kicks involved believed in part to be a "send up" by black slaves of the elitist mannerisms of their slave owners:

The dance was invented as a satirical parody of the formal European dances preferred by white slave owners, and featured exaggerated imitations of the dance ritual, combined with traditional African dance steps. One common form of cakewalk dance involved couples (one male and one female, with their arms linked at the elbows) lined up in a circle, dancing forward alternating a series of short hopping steps with a series of very high kicking steps. Costumes worn for the cakewalk often included large, exaggerated bowties, suits, canes, and top hats. (from the Wikipedia entry for "cakewalk")

 

 

Click here to view a 30 second video clip of the cake walkers.

Video capture from 1903 film of
                                  dancers dancing the cakewalk

Comedy Cake Walk. American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1903.

Source: Library of Congress

 

 

Two very early published cakewalks are Good Enough! (1871) and Walking For Dat Cake (1877):

Good Enough Sheet Music Cover

Good Enough!
Rollin Howard. Chicago, IL: Lyon & Healy, 1871.
[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University)  [top]

Walking for dat Cake Sheet Music
                                Cover

Walking For Dat Cake
. David Braham (lyrics by Edward Harrigan). New York: William A Pond, 1877.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University) [top]


Jasen and Jones (2000:xxviii) identify Opelika Cakewalk from 1892 as the first composition published with "cakewalk" in the title, although Jasen (1997:iii) identified Rastus on Parade (1895) (below) by Kerry Mills as starting the cakewalk craze and also establishing the cakewalk music structure of beginning in a minor key and finishing in a major key. The Mississippi Rag (1897) (below) was the first piece of instrumental music published with the word "rag" in the title. Its composer was William H. Krell, a (white) band leader. The first rag published by a black composer, the Harlem Rag, by way of contrast, was published later in 1897 by Tom Turpin, a well-known saloon owner from St Louis. There is some irony in The Mississippi Rag being the first instrumental rag published in print since the piece is really a "cakewalk" and not a classic rag. And even though The Mississippi Rag and Harlem Rag have their place in history as the first instrumental "rags" published, it has been pointed out, however, that ragtime was certainly known and played before 1897 (Gammond 1975:39).

The potential confusion or mislabeling of rags as cakewalks and vice versa arises in part because both forms of music are syncopated and have an "intoxicating" effect. Some rags included "cakewalk" in the title even though there were closer being a rag than a cakewalk (e.g., Scott Joplin's Swipesy Cake Walk, which is a rag); alternatively, the Mississippi Rag includes "rag" as part of its title, although it is a cakewalk. This labeling was likely done, in part, by the publisher to better promote the piece, depending on which form of music was more in vogue at the time.

 


It seems that cakewalks were not without controversy over the issue of whether it placed African-Americans in a stereo-typical light. In an 1893 edition of the Cleveland Gazette (see story to the right), a church pastor is chastised for allowing a cakewalk to occur in his church since cakewalks were "disgraceful relics of slavery days and should not be tolerated for a moment in intelligent Afro-American communities, to say nothing of churches."

 

Excerpt from
                                    1893 Cleveland Gazette commenting on
                                    the evils of cakewalks

Source:
Ohio History Connection

 

The effects of the cakewalk craze (and classic ragtime) did not escape Canadian listeners and composers where there was a minor boom itself in this sort of music. Typical of the Canadian version of cakewalk music would be The Cake Winner (1909) by GW Adams (below), mentioned here in The Canadian Encyclopedia. The earliest reference I could find in the Globe newspaper (Toronto) was an August 1, 1890, story (page 8) under the title "Colored People Jubilate Today":

This is Emancipation Day, and a number of our coloured citizens will jubilate in a benefitting manner at Berlin, in company with brethren from Hamilton, Chatham, Windsor, St. Catharines and other places . . . . There was an opening ball last night and this evening there will be a grand concert and cake walk.

A July 3, 1896, story in the Globe (page 2) describes a "sports meet" in Quebec where there is mention of a cake walk as entertainment at the event.

Finally, an August 21, 1899, story in the Globe describes a mass cakewalk at a summer party at the "cottage" north of Toronto of what I believe to be the summer home of Sir Henry Mill Pellatt:

Mr. and Mrs. Pellatt's annual at-home at Southwood Hall, Orillia, came off on Friday, August 11th. Mrs. Pellatt was desirous of introducing some new feature on the occasion and decided upon holding a "cake-walk." It was felt that this would be at the same time a novelty to the people of Orillia, and particularly gratifying to the national pride of the summer visitors, many of whom are from the Southern States.... At about 5:30 the Orillia Band, whose services had been secured for the occasion, broke into an energetic burst.... A detour among the shrubberies brought the procession in full view at the bottom of the lawn and the dancers advanced up the tennis court, two and two, in the cake walk step, to the ragtime music of the band.

The popularity of cakewalks spread even beyond North America to Europe where even Claude Debussy wrote Golliwog's Cakewalk (1908) (below), a "take" on the cakewalk from a classical composer's point of view.  Despite their simple nature, many cakewalks are enjoyable and fun to play and listen to.

Ultimately, however, the cakewalk craze gradually subsided as classic ragtime gained in popularity; in addition, new dance crazes, such as variations on the fox trot, were introduced prior to and during World War I and eclipsed the cakewalk, which by that time, must have seemed very dated and quaint.

Jasen and Jones (2000:xxix) sum up cakewalks in these terms:

In many of the best rags, especially those by Joplin and Lamb, there is a harmonic richness which gives them a hint of melancholy that is without counterpart in the cakewalk. The cakewalk was neither designed for introspection nor capable of it. It offers liveliness and nothing else.

For more information on cakewalks, there are a number of websites that discuss the cakewalk in more detail - see:

  • Basinstreet.com. "The Cakewalk 1897-1915: The Evolution From the Quadrille, March to Ragtime"
    (available online: basinstreet.com/cake-walk/).

2) Recordings of Cakewalks [top]

I can highly recommend the following CD by the Lake Arrowhead Early Jazz Band which contains 23 cakewalks played in the style of a small orchestra or military band:

  • Lake Arrowhead Early Jazz Band. The Cakewalk, 1897-1915. Stomp Off Records 1365. Purchase details (includes positive reviews by Jack Rummel and Eddie Cook).

3)  Online Cake Walk Sheet Music [top]

Set out in the table below are links to the sheet music and sheet music covers to 170 cakewalks or ragtime-era compositions with the word "cakewalk" in the title. The list of compositions below is not exhaustive; I have not included every cakewalk song (i.e., cakewalks with lyrics) and I have also not included the more racially offensive compositions.

Beneath the table is a list of 11 cakewalks that I have not been able to source online.

To find sheet music for cakewalks not listed below, check out the various online sources of ragtime sheet music.


Online Sheet Music for Cakewalks

Picture of Nathaniel Dett


After the Cakewalk.
Nathaniel Dett. Toronto, ON: Whaley, Royce & Co, 1900.

[view sheet music] [top]

Alabama Dream (Rag-Time Cake Walk)
                            Sheet Music Cover


Alabama Dream (Rag-Time Cake Walk)
. George D Barnard. Cincinnati, OH: The John Church Company, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

Alagazam! Cake Walk, March, and Two
                            Step Sheet Music Cover


Alagazam! Cake Walk, March, and Two Step
. Abe Holzmann. New York: Leo Feist, 1902.

[view sheet music]

Source: IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana [top]

Allonzo, Allons-y! Cakewalk


Allonzo, Allons-y! Cakewalk.
Fernand Heintz. 1903.

[view sheet music]

Source: Le Passe Temps (Vol. 9, no 214 (6 juin 1903) at 157-59) as digitized by the National Library of Québec [top]

At A Darktown Cakewalk Sheet Music
                            Cover


At A Da*ktown Cakewalk
. Charles Hale. Philadelphia, PA: Belmont Music Co, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana [top]

At
                            a Georgia Camp Meeting Sheet Music Cover

At A Georgia Camp Meeting: A Characteristic March Which Can be Used Effectively as a Two-Step Polka or Cake Walk
. Kerry Mills. New York: FA Mills, 1897.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

Audacious Arabella: Cake Walk March
                            Sheet Music Cover


Audacious Arabella: Cake Walk March
. Hanna Rion. New York: FA Mills, 1900.

[view sheet music]

Source: Photocopy from Center for Popular Music [top]

Aunt Hannah: March and Cake Walk Sheet
                            Music Cover


Aunt Hannah: March and Cake Walk
. William Loraine. New York: Hugo V Schlam, 1900.

[view sheet music]

Source: The E Azalia Hackley Collection, Detroit Public Library [top]

Aunt Mandy's Wedding: March & Cake
                            Walk First Page of Music


Aunt Mandy's Wedding: March & Cake Walk
. Wm H Tyers. New York: Jos W Stern, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Photocopy provided by Dave Kerr (England) [top]

Aunt
                            Minervy Anns: Cake Walk and Characteristic
                            March Sheet Music Cover


Aunt Minervy Anns: Cake Walk and Characteristic March
. Joseph St John. Montreal, QC: Canadian Foreign Music Co, 1900.

[view sheet music]

Source: Library and Archives Canada [top]

Bamboo Cake Walk Sheet Music Cover


Bamboo Cake Walk
. CG McIntosh. Melbourne: Allan & Co, 1905.

[view sheet music]

Source: National Library of Australia Digital Collections [top]

Belle of Richmond: Characteristic March
                            and Cake Walk Sheet Music Cover


Belle of Richmond: Characteristic March and Cake Walk
. Hans Liné. New York: Jos W Stern & Co, 1902.

[view sheet music]

Source: Photocopy from the New York State Library [top]

Belle of the Cake Walk: March Sheet
                            Music Cover


Belle of the Cake Walk: March
. Lawrence B O'Connor. Boston, MA: BF Wood Music Co, 1897.

[view sheet music]

Source: Photocopy from the New York State Library [top]

Black Cinderella Cake Walk Sheet Music
                            Cover


Black Cinderella Cake Walk
. Florence Wood. Toledo, OH: Peter McCormick, 1900.

[view sheet music]

Source: IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana [top]

Blackville Society Cake Walk and Two
                            Step Sheet Music Cover


Blackville Society Cake Walk and Two Step
. Bernard Franklin. Boston, MA: GW Setchell, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Charles H Templeton Sheet Music Collection (MSU)  [top]

Bluffton Carnival Rag: Cake Walk Sheet
                            Music Cover


Bluffton Carnival Rag: Cake Walk
. Verdi Karns. Bluffton, IN: Verdi Karns, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana [top]

 Sheet music cover for Boardin' House
                            Johnson: Cake Walk

Boardin' House Johnson: Cake Walk
. Sadie Koninsky. New York: Joseph W Stern, 1899.

[view sheet music] [top]

The Bos'n Rag: Cake Walk Sheet Music
                              Cover


The Bos'n Rag: Cake Walk
. Fred S Stone. Detroit, MI: Whitney Warner Pub Co, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: The E Azalia Hackley Collection, Detroit Public Library [top]

Sheet music cover for A Bran Dance
                            Shuffle: A Rag Time Cake Walk

A Bran Dance Shuffle: A Rag Time Cake Walk. Wade Harrison. Nashville, TN: H.A. French, 1902.

[view sheet music]

Source: Digital copy provided by Peter Persoff [top]

The
                            Brooklyn Cake Walk Sheet Music Cover


The Brooklyn Cake Walk (
also known as
The Permans' Brooklyn Cake Walk). TW Thurban. Melbourne: Allan's, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: National Library of Australia Digital Collections [top]

Bunch
                            O' Blackberries: Cake - Walk & Two -
                            Step Sheet Music Cover


Bunch O' Blackberries: Cake-Walk & Two-Step
. Abe Holzmann. New York: Feist & Frankenthaler, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Maine Music Box [top]

The Cake-Walk in the Sky Sheet Music
                            Cover


The Cake-Walk in the Sky
. Ben Harney. New York: M Witmark & Sons, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: University of Colorado Digital Sheet Music Collection [top]

Sheet
                            music cover from 1899 folio

The Cake-Walkers. J Howard Johnston. Chicago, IL: The S Brainards’ Sons Co, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: University of South Florida Digital Commons [top]

The Cake Walk Patrol: Two Step Sheet
                            Music Cover


The Cake Walk Patrol: Two Step
. WH Krell. Chicago, IL: The S Brainard's Sons Co, 1895.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

The Cake Winner Sheet Music Cover


The Cake Winner
. GW Adams. Toronto, ON: Amey & Hodgins, 1899. 

[view sheet music

Source:  Library and Archives Canada [top]

Cover of
                            Folio


Campbell Cakewalk
. Brun Campbell (transcribed by Richard A Egan, Jr).  Sheet music available in Richard A Egan, Jr, ed, Brun Campbell: The Music of "The Ragtime Kid" (St Louis, MO: Morgan Publishing, 1993).

Car-Barlick-Acid Rag Two-Step-Cake Walk
                            Sheet Music Cover


Car-Barlick-Acid Rag: Two-Step-Cake Walk
. Clarence C Wiley. Detroit, MI: Jerome H Remick & Co, 1905.

[view sheet music]

Source: Charles H Templeton Sheet Music Collection (MSU) [top]

Careless Sam: Cake Walk & Two Step
                            Sheet Music Cover


Careless Sam: Cake Walk & Two Step
. John H Davies. Kansas City, MO: JW Jenkins' Sons Music Company, 1900.

[view sheet music]

Source: Kansas City Sheet Music Collection [top]

Carlton Cake Walk


Carlton Cake Walk
. Theo Bonheur. Melbourne: Cassell & Co, [189-].

[view sheet music]

Source: National Library of Australia Digital Collections [top]

Carolina Tar Heel Cake Walk Sheet Music
                            Cover


Carolina Tar Heel Cake Walk
. Dan Sullivan. New York: White-Smith Music Pub Co, 1898.

[view sheet music]

Source: IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana [top]

Chocolate Drops Sheet Music Cover

Chocolate Drops: A Da*ktown Improbability. Suitable for March, Cake Walk or Two Step
. Harry Von Tilzer. New York: Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Co, 1902.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

Colored Aristocracy: Cake Walk Sheet
                            Music Cover


Colored
Aristocracy: Cake Walk. Gus W Bernard. Indianapolis, IN: DH Baldwin, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: University of South Carolina Sheet Music Collection [top]

The Colored Major: Characteristic March
                            And Two Sheet Music Cover


The Colored Major: Characteristic March And Two
. Stephen R Henry. New York: The Lyceum Publishing Co, 1900.

[view sheet music]

Source: Maine Music Box [top]

A
                            C__n Band Contest: Jazz Fox-Trot Sheet Music
                            Cover


A C**n Band Contest: Jazz Fox-Trot
. Arthur Pryor. New York: Emil Ascher, 1918.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

C**n Hollow Capers: Cake Walk & Two
                            Step Sheet Music Cover


C**n Hollow Capers: Cake Walk & Two Step
. Frank R. Gillis. New York: Hugo Schlam, 1900.

[view sheet music]

Source: The E Azalia Hackley Collection, Detroit Public Library [top]

C**ntown Jubilee: Rag Time Cake Walk,
                            March and Two Step Sheet Music Cover


C**ntown Jubilee: Rag Time Cake Walk, March and Two Step
. Leo Friedman. Chicago, IL: Sol Bloom, 1898.

[view sheet music]

Source: The E Azalia Hackley Collection, Detroit Public Library [top]

C**n-ville Festival Cakewalk Sheet
                            Music Cover


C**n-ville Festival Cakewalk
. Gus H. Kline. Chicago, IL: G.H. Kline, 1898.

[view sheet music]

Source: IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana [top]

The Cotton Pickers: Characteristic Rag
                            Time, Two Step or Cake Walk Sheet Music
                            Cover


The Cotton Pickers: Characteristic Rag Time, Two Step or Cake Walk
. Will Hardy. Haverhill, MA: Hardy Music Publishing Co, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana [top]

Cotton Pickers Rag: Original Cake Walk
                            Sheet Music Cover


Cotton Pickers Rag: Original Cake Walk
. Wm J Braun. New Orleans, LA: Louis Grunewald Co Ltd, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana [top]

Creole Belles: March-Two-Step Sheet
                            Music Cover


Creole Belles: March-Two-Step
. J Bodewalt Lampe. Detroit, MI: Whitney-Warner Publishing Co, 1900.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

Cuban
                            CakeWalk Sheet Music Cover


Cuban Cake Walk
. James T Brymn. New York: Richard Saalfield, 1901.

[view sheet music

Source: Charles H Templeton Sheet Music Collection (MSU) [top]

Dandy Dan: Two-Step & Cake-Walk
                            Sheet Music Cover


Dandy Dan: Two-Step & Cake-Walk
. Julian Fredericks. New York: Jos W Stern & Co, 1909

[view sheet music]

Source: University of Colorado Digital Sheet Music Collection [top]

The
                            Darkies Delight: Two Step and Cakewalk Sheet
                            Music Cover


The Da*kies Delight: Two Step and Cakewalk
. Samuel Lapin. Springfield, MA: AH Goetting, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

The Darkie's Drill: Cake Walk Sheet
                            Music Cover


The Da*kie's Drill: Cake Walk
. Agnes Melville. Boston, MA: Avon Music Company, 1902

[view sheet music]

Source: Maine Music Box [top]

Darktown C**n: Cake Walk


Da*ktown C**n: Cake Walk
. Benoit F Pourier. 1904.

[view sheet music]

Source: Le Passe Temps (Vol. 12, no 305 (1 décembre 1906) at 538-41) as digitized by the National Library of Québec [top]

Cover
                            of folo from S Brainards Sons

A Da*ktown Diversion: Two-Step
. GL Lowell. Chicago, IL: S Brainards’ Sons, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: University of South Florida Digital Commons [top]

Darktown Excitement: March and Cake
                            Walk Sheet Music Cover


Da*ktown Excitement: March and Cake Walk
. William Brown. Baltimore, MD: George Willig & Co, 1900.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

Darktown Is Out To-Night A Senegambian
                            Review. March Two-Step Sheet Music Cover


Da*ktown Is Out To-Night: A Senegambian Review. March Two-Step
. Will Marion. New York: M. Witmark & Sons, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Charles H Templeton Sheet Music Collection (MSU) [top]

De
                            C**ntown Jubilee: Cake Walk: An African
                            Ragtime Oddity Sheet Music Cover


De C**ntown Jubilee: Cake Walk: An African Ragtime Oddity
. Clarence L Partee. Kansas City, MO: CL Partee Music Co, 1897.

[view sheet music]

Source: Kansas City Sheet Music Collection [top]

Democratic Fun: A Campaign Cake-Walk
                            Sheet Music Cover


Democratic Fun: A Campaign Cake-Walk
. Robert Buechel. Denver, CO: Tolbert R Ingram Music Co, 1908.

[view sheet music]

Source: University of Colorado Digital Sheet Music Collection [top]

Deo
                            Gratias: Lucien!!! Cake-Walk


Deo Gratias: Lucien!!! Cake-Walk
. Samuel Emmanuel Duguay. 1903.

[view sheet music]

Source: Le Passe Temps (Vol. 9, no 222 (26 septembre 1903) at 287) as digitized by the National Library of Québec [top]

Dixie Flyer: Cakewalk and Two Step
                            Sheet Music Cover


Dixie Flyer: Cakewalk and Two Step. AE Henrich. Mt. Vernon, IN: AE Henrich, 1901.

[view sheet music]

Source: IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana [top]

Doc
                            Brown's Cake Walk: Kansas City Rag


Doc Brown's Cake Walk: Kansas City Rag
. Charles L Johnson. Kansas City, MO: JW Jenkins' Sons, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Personal copy [top]

Down
                            on The Old Plantation: Cake-Walk Sheet Music
                            Cover


Down on The Old Plantation: Cake-Walk
. Bayard Wilson. Philadelphia, PA: MD Swisher, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Maine Music Box [top]

Sheet music cover for Drake’s Cake
                            Walk

Drake’s Cake Walk. Edwin F Kendall. Brooklyn, NY: Drake Brothers Company, 1909.

[view sheet music]

Source: Digital copy provided by Peter Persoff [top]

Dusky Dinah: Cake-walk and Patrol Sheet
                            Music Cover


Dusky Dinah: Cake-walk and Patrol
. Dan J Sullivan. Boston, MA: Chas Shackford, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University) [top]

Dusky Dudes Sheet Music Cover


Dusky Dudes
. Jean Schwartz (lyrics by Will Heelan). New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & Von Tilzer, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Brown University) [top]

Dusky Troopers March & Cake Walk
                            Sheet Music Cover


Dusky Troopers March & Cake Walk
. Will Hardy. Havervill, MA: Premium Music, 1900.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University) [top]

Sheet music cover for Easy Pickin’s:
                            Characteristic Dance and Cake-Walk

Easy Pickin’s: Characteristic Dance and Cake-Walk
. Egbert A Van Alstyne. Chicago: Will Rossiter, 1902.

[view sheet music]

Source: University of Colorado Digital Sheet Music Collection [top]

Ebony Echoes: A Good Old-Fashioned
                            Cake-Walk Sheet Music Cover


Ebony Echoes: A Good Old-Fashioned Cake-Walk
. Dan Walker. New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co, 1915.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University) [top]

Echoes From Old Kentucky: March,
                            Two-Step and Cake Walk.


Echoes From Old Kentucky: March, Two-Step and Cake Walk
. Mynnie Dillingham. Sydney: Alberts, 1901.

[view sheet music]

Source: Digital copy provided by Peter Persoff [top]

Cover
                            sheet of folio from S Brainards Son

Echoes from Old Mobile. Walter E Petry.  Chicago, IL: S Brainards’ Sons, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: University of South Florida Digital Commons [top]
Eli
                            Green's Cake Walk Sheet Music Cover


Eli Green's Cake Walk: March & Two Step
. Sadie Koninsky. New York: Jos W Stern & Co, 1898.

[view sheet music]

Source: IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana [top]

Eli
                            Green's Cake Walk Sheet Music Cover


Eli Green's Cake Walk
(song). Sadie Koninsky (words by Dave Reed). New York: Jos W Stern & Co, 1896.

[view sheet music]

Source: Charles H Templeton Sheet Music Collection (MSU) [top]

An
                            Ethiopian Mardi Gras. March, Two-Step and
                            Cake Walk Sheet Music Cover


An Ethiopian Mardi Gras. March, Two-Step and Cake Walk
. Maurice Levi. New York: The Rogers Bros Music Publishing Co, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

Cover
                            of folio by S Brainards Sons

A Florida Cracker: Rag Two-Step
. Ellis Brooks. Chicago, IL: S Brainards’ Sons, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: University of South Florida Digital Commons [top]
Freaks
                            of Blackville: Cakewalk and Two-Step Sheet
                            Music Cover


Freaks of Blackville: Cakewalk and Two-Step
. Charles [Clarence?] W Dalbey. Toronto: Harry H Sparks, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Personal copy [top]

Sheet Music Cover for Fun on the Levee:
                            Cake Walk (Charles Johnson)

Fun on the Levee: Cake Walk. Charles L. Johnson. Chicago: FJA Forster Music Publisher, 1917.

[view sheet music] [top]
The German Cake Walk Sheet Music Cover


The German Cake Walk
. Paul Rubens. New York: Sol Bloom, 1903.

[view sheet music]

Source: Library of Congress Sheet Music Collection (Music, Theatre and Dance) [top]

Give Cinda the Cake: March and Two Step
                            Sheet Music Cover


Give Cinda the Cake: March and Two Step
. Theo Metz. New York: Edward Schuberth & Co, 1898.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

Golliwog's Cakewalk Sheet Music Cover


Golliwog's Cakewalk
.
Claude Debussy (1908).

[view sheet music] [top]

Good Enough! Sheet Music Cover


Good Enough!
. Rollin Howard. Chicago, IL: Lyon & Healy, 1871.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University) [top]

Hannah's Promenade: Characteristic
                            March and Two-Step Dance


Hannah's Promenade: Characteristic March and Two-Step Dance
. Jacob Henry Ellis. New York: Willis Woodward, 1897.

[view sheet music]

Source: International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) [top]

"Happy Hannah": Cake Walk
                            Sheet Music Cover


"Happy Hannah": Cake Walk
. Theo Havermeyer. Chicago, IL: McKinley Music Co Place Pub, 1898.

[view sheet music]

Source: Maine Music Box [top]

Happy Hottentots: Cake - Walk Sheet
                            Music Cover


Happy Hottentots: Cake-Walk
. J Fred O'Connor. Boston, MA: Chas Shackford & Co, 1900.

[view sheet music]

Source: Maine Music Box [top]

Happy Mose Cake-Walk and Two-Step Sheet
                            Music Cover


Happy Mose Cake-Walk and Two-Step
. Phil Kussel. Cincinnati, OH: Philip Kussel, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Charles H Templeton Sheet Music Collection (MSU) [top]

Harlem Rag Sheet Music Cover

Harlem Rag
. Tom Turpin (revised and arr by WH Tyers). New York: Jos W Stern & Co, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Library of Congress [top]

Harriman Cake Walk - Fox Trot Sheet
                            Music Cover


Harriman Cake Walk - Fox Trot
. Lee S Roberts. Chicago, IL: Lee S Roberts Pub Co, 1915.

[view sheet music]

Source: IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana [top]

High Yellow Cake Walk and Two-Step
                            Sheet Music Cover


High Yellow Cake Walk and Two-Step
. F Henri Klickmann. Chicago, IL: Frank K Root & Co, 1915.

[view sheet music]

Source: Charles H Templeton Sheet Music Collection (MSU) [top]

Hello My Baby! Sheet Music Cover

Hello My Baby!
Joseph Howard (lyrics by Ida Emerson). New York: TB Harms, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University) [top]

Sheet Music Cover for Hester on Parade
                            (Charles Johnson)

Hester on Parade
. Charles L Johnson. Kansas City, MO: J.W. Jenkins Sons Music Co., 1899.

[view sheet music] [top]
His Rag-Time Walk Won the Prize Sheet
                            Music Cover

His Rag-Time Walk Won the Prize
. Nathan Bivins. New York: Hugo Schlam, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Brown University)  [top]

Hoe-Cake Shuffle: A Characteristic
                            Virginia Dance Sheet Music Cover

Hoe-Cake Shuffle: A Characteristic Virginia Dance
. Claudia Jenkins. Boston, MA: BF Wood Music Co, 1903.

[view sheet music]

Source: Charles H Templeton Sheet Music Collection (MSU) [top]

Hog-Town Pig-Aninnies: Two-Step
                            Cake-Walk: A Very Warm Number Sheet Music
                            Cover

Hog-Town Pig-Aninnies: Two-Step Cake-Walk: A Very Warm Number
. Edmund Braham. New York: Edmund Braham, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

The
                            Honey Boy Cakewalk Sheet Music Cover

Honey Boy: Cake Walk
. M Cadenza. Los Angeles: RL Durant, 1901.

[view sheet music]

Source: IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana [top]

The
                            Honolulu Cake Walk Sheet Music Cover

T
he Honolulu Cake Walk: A Characteristic March. JW Lerman. New York: N. Weinstein, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: National Library of Australia Digital Collections [top]

Hop-Lee: A Chinese Cake Walk for Piano
                            Sheet Music Cover


Hop-Lee: A Chinese Cake Walk for Piano
. Ellis Ephraim. Baltimore, MD: PJ Lammers, 1901.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

Hot
                            off the Griddle: Novelty Cakewalk Sheet
                            Music Cover


Hot Off the Griddle: Novelty Cakewalk
. James White. Chicago, IL: Frank K Root, 1915.

[view sheet music]

Source: Personal copy [top]

A Hot Old Time in Dixie Sheet Music
                            Cover


A Hot Old Time in Dixie
. Nat Rothman. New York: New York Music Publishing Co, 1904.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University) [top]

A Hot Old
                            Time in Ragtown: Characteristic Cakewalk
                            Sheet Music Cover


A Hot Old Time in Ragtown: Characteristic Cakewalk
. Charles B Brown (arranged by Lewis Reiterman). Chicago, IL: Will Rossiter, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana  top]

Huckleberry Finn Cake Walk Two-Step
                            Sheet Music Cover


Huckleberry Finn Cake Walk Two-Step
. HS Brennan. Philadelphia, PA: Jos Morris, 1900.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University) [top]

Hula
                            Hula Cake Walk Sheet Music Cover


Hu-la Hu-la Cake Walk
. Egbert van Alstyne. Omaha, NB: A Hospe, 1899.

[view sheet music] [listen to 1915 recording by John Philip Sousa]

Source: Digital copy provided by Peter Persoff [top]

Hunky-Dory: Characteristic Cake Walk,
                            March, and Two Step Sheet Music Cover

Hunky-Dory: Characteristic Cake Walk, March, and Two Step
. Abe Holzmann. New York: Leo Feist, 1900.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

Impecunious Davis: Characteristic
                            Two-Step, March and Cake-Walk Sheet Music
                            Cover


Impecunious Davis: Characteristic Two-Step, March and Cake-Walk
. Kerry Mills. New York: FA Mills, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University) [top]

First page of music for In Dahomey:
                            Cakewalk Smasher (Grainger)

In Dahomey: Cakewalk Smasher
. Percy Grainger. (circa 1903-1909).

[view sheet music] [listen to performance by Marc-André Hamelin] [top]

In Ole Alabam: Rag Time Cake Walk and
                            Two-Step Sheet Music Cover


In Ole Alabam: Rag Time Cake Walk and Two-Step
. Hortensia Weisman. Albany, NY: Henry P Volgel, 1900.

[view sheet music]

Source: Photocopy from the New York State Library [top]

Jasper Jenkins: Characteristic Two-Step
                            Sheet Music Cover


Jasper Jenkins: Characteristic Two-Step
. Henry Vogel. Albany, NY: Henry Vogel, 1898.

[view sheet music]

Source: African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Brown University)  [top]

Jemima's Wedding Day: Cake Walk Sheet
                            Music Cover


Jemima's Wedding Day: Cake Walk
. Martin Saxx (words by Jere O'Halloran). Boston, MA: Saxx Music Co, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University) [top]

Jolly Pickanninies: Cake Walk and Two
                            Step Sheet Music Cover


Jolly Pick*nninies: Cake Walk and Two Step
. Ernst Rueffer. New York: E Rueffer, 1905.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University) [top]

Jolly Sam: March & Cake Walk Sheet
                            Music Cover


Jolly Sam: March & Cake Walk
. Russell Dickinson. Boston, MA: Tremont Music Pub Co, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Maine Music Box  [top]

A
                            Jolly South Carolina Cake Walk. March and
                            Two Step Sheet Music Cover


A Jolly South Carolina Cake Walk: March and Two Step
. Henry Volmer. Philadelphia, PA: JF Bellois, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

Keep Moving Cake Walk Sheet Music
                            Cover


Keep Moving Cake Walk
. William White. New York: Jos W Stern, 1915.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University) [top]

The Kentucky Cornhuskers: Two Step
                            March and Cake Walk Sheet Music Cover


The Kentucky Cornshuckers: Two Step March and Cake Walk
. Alfred Rosenberg. New York: Gagel Bros, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Photocopy from the New York State Library [top]

Kentucky Rosebuds: Cake Walk or One
                            Step Sheet Music Cover

Kentucky Rosebuds: Cake Walk or One Step. Arthur Lange. New York: Joe Morris Music, 1915.

[view sheet music]

Source: Photocopy provided by a reader [top]

Laughing Lucas: Characteristic March
                            and Two-Step Sheet Music Cover


Laughing Lucas: Characteristic March and Two-Step
. Florence McPherran. Chicago, IL: Ellis Music Co, 1901.

[view sheet music]

Source: IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana [top]

Limber Libby: Characteristic March, Two
                            Step and Cake Walk Sheet Music Cover


Limber Libby: Characteristic March, Two Step and Cake Walk
. Edward Hogben. New Haven, CT: Edward J Hogben, 1900.

[view sheet music]

Source: Copy from University of Toronto Music Library [top]

A Little on the Rag-Time (Makes the
                            Piano Talk): Cake walk, March and Two-Step
                            Sheet Music Cover


A Little on the Rag-Time (Makes the Piano Talk): Cake walk, March and Two-Step
. SG Kiesling. New York: CH Ditson, 1900.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University) [top]

Liza Skinner: De Cake-Walk Winner Sheet
                            Music Cover


Liza Skinner: De Cake-Walk Winner
. NH Moray. Detroit, MI: Zickel Bros, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Brown University)  [top]

Looney C**ns: Cake Walk & Two Step
                            Sheet Music Cover


Looney C**ns: Cake Walk & Two Step
. John T. Hall. New York: John T. Hall Music Publishing Co, 1900.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University) [top]

Loquatias Moll: Characteristic Cake
                            Walk Sheet Music Cover


Loquatias Moll: Characteristic Cake Walk
. Sam Bennett and Theodore Northrup. New York: Armstrong Music, 1900.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University)   [top]

Ma
                            Tiger Lily Sheet Music Cover


Ma Tiger Lily
. AB Sloane. New York: M Witmark & Sons, 1900.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

The Main Gazabo at a Corn Party: Cake
                            Walk Sheet Music Cover


The Main Gazabo at a Corn Party: Cake Walk
. Chris Praetorius. New York: Crown Music, 1903.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University)  [top]

Miss Cinda's Walk Two-Step and
                            Cake-Walk Sheet Music Cover


Miss Cinda's Walk Two-Step and Cake-Walk
. Samuel Lapin. Philadelphia, PA: HL Morris, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Charles H Templeton Sheet Music Collection (MSU)   [top]

Mississippi Rag Sheet Music Cover

Mississippi Rag
. William Krell. New York: S Brainard's Sons, 1897.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University) [top]

The Mississippi Side-Step: March and
                            Cake Walk Sheet Music Company


The Mississippi Side-Step: March and Cake Walk
. Leo E. Berliner. New York: Berliner & Co, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Maine Music Box [top]

The Mobile Prance: Characteristic
                            March, Cakewalk or Polka Sheet Music Cover


The Mobile Prance: Characteristic March, Cakewalk or Polka
. Chas B Brown. Milwaukee, WI: Chas K Harris, 1901.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

Mumblin' Moss: American Cake-Walk Sheet
                            Music Cover


Mumblin' Moss: American Cake-Walk
. TW Thurban. Melbourne: Allan's, 1902.

[view sheet music]

Source: National Library of Australia Digital Collections [top]

Nicodemus and His Banjo: Cake-walk
                            March & Two Step Sheet Music Cover

Nicodemus and His Banjo: Cake-walk March & Two Step
. E Ascher. New York: Standard Music Company, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University) [top]

Noires
                            et blanches: cake-walk


Noires et blanches: cake-walk
. Beauchamp. Jos. 1904.

[view sheet music]

Source: Le Passe Temps (Vol. 10, no 236 (9 avril 1904) at 94- 95) as digitized by the National Library of Québec [top]

Old
                            Jasper's Cake Walk Sheet Music Cover


Old Jasper's Cake Walk
. Saint Suttle. New York: S Brainard's Sons Co, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source:Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

An Old Virginia Cake Walk Sheet Music
                            Cover


An Old Virginia Cake Walk
. Louise Gustin. Detroit, MI: Belcher & Davis, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana [top]

Ole
                            Eph's Vision: A Characteristic March
                            (Two-Step Polka or Cake Walk) Sheet Music
                            Cover

Ole Eph's Vision: A Characteristic March (Two-Step Polka or Cake Walk)
. Lee Orean Smith. Williamsport, PA: Vandersloot Music Pub Co, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

Parson
                            Johnson's Rag-Time Mule: A Characteristic
                            Two Step and Cakewalk Sheet Music Cover

Parson Johnson's Rag-Time Mule: A Characteristic Two Step and Cakewalk
. EE Huston. Denver, CO: Tolbert R Ingram Music Co, 1900.

[view sheet music]

Source: University of Colorado Digital Sheet Music Collection [top]

First page of music for Le petit negre
                            (Debussy)

Le petite nègre: cakewalk. Claude Debussy (1909).

[view sheet music] [listen to performance by Ichiro Kaneko] [top]

Phoebe
                            Thompson's Cake Walk Sheet Music Cover


Phoebe Thompson's Cake Walk
. Sadie Koninsky. New York: Edw M Koninsky & Bros, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Maine Music Box [top]

Pickaninny Shuffle Sheet Music Cover


Pick*ninny Shuffle
. Emma Suckert. Detroit, MI: Central Music Pub Co, 1896.

[view sheet music]

Source: The E Azalia Hackley Collection, Detroit Public Library [top]

Pickin' On De Ole Banjo: Old Fashion
                            Cake Walk Sheet Music Cover

Pickin' On De Ole Banjo: Old Fashion Cake Walk
. Henry Widmer. New York: Chas K Harris, 1915.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University) [top]

Policy Sam: Cake Walk & Two Step
                            Sheet Music Cover

Policy Sam: Cake Walk & Two Step
. Joseph Gioscia. New York: TB Harms & Co, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

Pop-corn: Cake Walk & Two Step
                            Sheet Music Cover

Pop-corn: Cake Walk & Two Step
. May Summerbelle. Australia?: sn, 189-?.

[view sheet music]

Source: National Library of Australia Digital Collections [top]

Possum Hall Rag: Cake Walk and Two-Step
                            Sheet Music Cover


Possum Hall Rag: Cake Walk and Two-Step
. Bennett Fritch. Copyright: Bennett Fritch, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Personal copy [top]

Prancin Jimmy: A Rag Time Dream:
                            Characteristic Cake Walk and Two Step Sheet
                            Music Cover

Prancin Jimmy: A Rag Time Dream: Characteristic Cake Walk and Two Step
. EB Claypoole. Baltimore, MD: Cohen & Hughes, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source:Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

Prancing Pickaninnies Sheet Music
                            Cover


Prancing Pickaninnies: Cake Walk
. Max Dreyfus. St Louis, MO: St Louis Post-Dispatch, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana [top]

Rag Knots: A Cake Walk and Two-Step


Rag Knots: A Cake Walk and Two-Step
. W.C. Coleman. Galveston, TX: Thos. Goggan & Bro, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Digital copy provided by Peter Persoff [top]

Ragelies: Two Step or Cake Walk Sheet
                            Music Cover

Ragelies: Two Step or Cake Walk
. WM Fassbinder. St Paul, MN: WM Fassbinder, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Copy from University of Toronto Music Library [top]

A
                            Ragtime Masquerade: Cake Walk and Two Step
                            Sheet Music Cover

A Ragtime Masquerade: Cake Walk and Two Step
. Philip Meahl. Chicago, IL: John Allen, 1900.

[view sheet music]

Source: The E Azalia Hackley Collection, Detroit Public Library [top]

A
                            Rag-Time Skedaddle: March & Cake Walk
                            Sheet Music Cover


A Rag-Time Skedaddle: March & Cake Walk
. George Rosey. New York: JW Stern, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Charles H Templeton Sheet Music Collection (MSU) [top]

Rastus Johnson's Cakewalk Sheet Music
                            Cover

Rastus Johnson’s Cake Walk. AE Bayler. New York: S Brainard's Sons Co, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: University of South Florida Digital Commons [top]

Rastus on Parade Sheet Music Cover


Rastus on Parade
. Kerry Mills. FA Mills, 1895.

[view sheet music]

Source: Charles H Templeton Sheet Music Collection (MSU) [top]

Rastus Thompson's Rag-Time Cake Walk
                            Sheet Music Cover

Rastus Thompson's Rag-Time Cake Walk
. Harry Von Tilzer (words by Andrew Sterling). New York: Jos W Stern & Co, 1898.

[view sheet music]

Source: African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Brown University)  [top]

Raz
                            Ma Taz: Cake Walk & Two-Step; What it
                            is? Sheet Music Cover


Raz Ma Taz: Cake Walk & Two-Step; What it is?
William Smith. New York: George Krey, 1901.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University) [top]

Remus Takes the Cake: Characteristic
                            March and Two Step Dance: A Southern Melody
                            Sheet Music Cover


Remus Takes the Cake: Characteristic March and Two Step Dance: A Southern Melody
. Jacob Henry Ellis. New York: Willis Woodward & Co, 1896. 

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

Sambo
                            at the Cake Walk Sheet Music Cover


S*mbo at the Cake Walk
. Alfred Marks. New York: C Schuster & Son, 1896.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University) [top]

Simple Simon: Cake Walk Sheet Music
                            Cover


Simple Simon: Cake Walk
. Louise Howarde. Sydney: Mason's Music Stores, 1906.

[view sheet music]

Source: National Library of Australia Digital Collections [top]

Smokey
                            Mokes: Cake Walk and Two Step Sheet Music
                            Cover


S
moky Mokes: Cake Walk and Two Step. Abe Holzmann. New York: Feist & Frankenthaler, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

Sourires printaniers: marche ou cake
                            walk


Sourires printaniers: marche ou cake walk
. Auguste Bosc. 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Le Passe Temps (Vol. 5, no 105 (1 avril 1899) at 73- 75) as digitized by the National Library of Québec [top]

First page of music for The Sousa's
                            Cakewalk (Sousa)

The Sousa's Cakewalk. G. Wittman. Paris: Edward Salabert, 1902.

[view sheet music]

Source: Le Ragtime Français [top]
South Car'lina Tickle: Cake Walk Sheet
                            Music Cover


South Car'lina Tickle: Cake Walk
. Adam Geibel. Philadelphia, PA: Theodore Presser 1898.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University) [top]

Southern Hospitality Cakewalk Sheet
                            Music Cover

Southern Hospitality. Arthur Pryor. St. Joseph, MO: Brokaw Music Pub Co, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: University of South Florida Digital Commons [top]

Stuttering Jasper: March and Cake Walk
                            Sheet Music Cover

Stuttering Jasper: March and Cake Walk
. Robt. Cohn. New York: FA Mills, Music Publisher, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

The Sun
                            Do Move: Cake Walk and Two Step Sheet Music
                            Cover

The Sun Do Move: Cake Walk and Two Step
. John Stromberg. New York: Weber, Fields & Stromberg, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

Swipesy Cake Walk Sheet Music Cover


Swipesy Cake Walk
. Scott Joplin and Arthur Marshall. St Louis, MO: John Stark and Son, 1900.

[view sheet music]

Source: IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana [top]

Syncopated Rags Cakewalk Sheet Music
                            Cover

Syncopated Rags: An Original Cake Walk. Charles H Rose. New York: Graves & Co, 1901.

[view sheet music]

Source: Let's Rag (Adrien Le Gallo)  [top]

Three Black Crows: Cake Walk and Two
                            Step


Three Black Crows: Cake Walk and Two Ste
p. Raymond Miller. Philadelphia, PA: Welch Wilsky, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Personal copy [top]

  Too
                            Much is Plenty: An Ideal Southern Two-Step
                            and Cake Walk Sheet Music Cover


Too Much is Plenty: An Ideal Southern Two-Step and Cake Walk
. Henry Tiedemann. Galveston, TX: Thos Goggan & Bros, 1906.

[view sheet music]

Source: Charles H Templeton Sheet Music Collection (MSU) [top]

Trombone Johnsen: Rag Time Cake Walk
                            Sheet Music Cover


Trombone Johnsen
: Rag Time Cake Walk
. EJ Stark. St Louis, MO: John Stark & Son, Sheet Music Publishers, 1902.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

Sheet
                            Music Cover for Folio from S Brainards Sons

The Turkey Walk . GL Lowell. Chicago, IL: S Brainards’ Sons, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: University of South Florida Digital Commons [top]

Uncle Jasper's Jubilee: Dance
                            Characteristique Sheet Music Cover

Uncle Jasper's Jubilee: Dance Characteristique
. ET Paull. New York: ET Paull Music Co, 1898.

[view sheet music]

Source: Maine Music Box [top]

Uncle Jerry's New England Two-Step and
                            Cake-Walk Sheet Music Cover

Uncle Jerry's New England Two-Step and Cake-Walk
. JC Rhell. Philadelphia, PA: Standard Music Publishing Co, 1907.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

Uncle Rufus' Cake-Walk: Characteristic
                            March and Two Step Sheet Music Cover

Uncle Rufus' Cake-Walk: Characteristic March and Two Step
. Ellis Ephraim. Baltimore, MD: The Baltimore Music Co, 1898.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

Vienna Rag Sheet Music Cover

The Vienna Rag: Cake Walk á la "Strauss."
Paul Rubens. New York: Jos. W. Stern & Co., 1905.

[view sheet music]

Source: Charles H Templeton Sheet Music Collection (MSU) [top]

Le vrai
                            cake-walk cover sheet

Le vrai cake-walk.
Leon Dequin. 1904.
[view sheet music] [listen to an .mp3]

Source: Le Passe Temps (Vol. 10, no 239 (21 mai 1904) at 136-39) as digitized by the National Library of Québec [top]

Walkin' on de Rainbow Road Sheet Music
                            Cover


Walkin' on de Rainbow Road
. SM Roberts. Philadelphia, PA: MD Swisher, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

Walking for Dat Cake Sheet Music Cover


Walking for Dat Cake
. David Braham (lyrics by Edward Harrigan). New York: William A Pond, 1877.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University) [top]

A
                            Warm Proposition: Cake Walk Sheet Music
                            Cover


A Warm Proposition: Cake Walk
. Paul Knox and Monroe Rosenfeld. Brooklyn, NY: Chas W Held, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Maine Music Box [top]

Image of First Page of Sheet Music for
                            "A Warm Proposition: Greatest Cake Walk
                            Ever"


A Warm Proposition: Greatest Cake Walk Ever
. James Glionna. Toronto, ON: HH Sparks, 1901.

[view sheet music]

Source: Toronto Reference Library Microfiche  [top]

A
                            Warm Reception: Characteristic March,
                            Two-Step and Cake-Walk Sheet Music Cover


A Warm Reception: Characteristic March, Two-Step and Cake-Walk
. Bert Anthony. Fall River, MA: GH Munroe & Co Place Pub, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Maine Music Box [top]

A
                            Warmin' Up in Dixie: Cake Walk, March and
                            Two Step: Sheet Music Cover


A Warmin' Up In Dixie: Cake Walk, March and Two Step
. ET Paull. New York: ET Paull, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University)  [top]

Way
                            Down South: Characteristic March, Cake-Walk
                            and Two-Step Sheet Music Cover


Way Down South: Characteristic March, Cake-Walk and Two-Step
. LS Fisher. Boston, MA: GW Setchell, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University) [top]

Whistling Rufus: A Characteristic March
                            Sheet Music Cover


Whistling Rufus: A Characteristic March
. Kerry Mills. New York: FA Mills, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection [top]

Yon
                            Yonson's Version of a Cake-Walk Sheet Music
                            Cover


Yon Yonson's Version of a Cake-Walk
. Jay Youmans. Platteville, WI: Jay Youmans, 1899.

[view sheet music]

Source: Photocopy from University of Wisconsin-Madison Library [top]


I am currently looking for copies of the following pieces, set out in rough chronological order; if I obtain copies, I will digitize them and add them to the table above:

  • 1903: Boston Banjo Band: Cake Walk Two Step. MC Ives. London: WH Broome, 1903 [check Google] [Source: NLA].


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