Ole Virginny Barbeque..1899..Julius E. Andino

[Steve Harrison]

Julius Andino was born in Puerto Rico and moved to the US in 1870 to further his musical career. He was a prolific composer and arranger, in particular for silent movies. This excellent early cake walk has a distinctly Latin influence reflecting the composers nationality. Rhythmically it is very Habanera like in some sections. The piano score was written Bb/Eb, I've arranged it C/F. I've not yet managed to find any more of Andino's scores....Steve.

[Ethan Schwartz]

Interesting! Some of the rhythms/harmonies are outside of what I would consider typical of a cakewalk, but it works. 

[Steve Harrison]

Hi Ethan, many thanks for your comment, Andino's choice to call this a cakewalk was probably reflecting the popularity of cakewalks at the time in the same way that some of the other composers of popular music called their tunes rags when many of them contained very little syncopation...Steve.

Ethan Schwartz said:

Interesting! Some of the rhythms/harmonies are outside of what I would consider typical of a cakewalk, but it works.