Annotation:Oakland Garden

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OAKLAND GARDEN. American, "Clog Dance". C Major ('A' and 'C' parts) & A Minor ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. Composed by Edwin Christie, according to Ryan's Mammoth (1883), referring not to the famous blackface minstrel Edwin Christy (Christy's Minstrels) but a journeyman composer in the Boston region. See note for "Lotta's Favorite" for more on E.P. Christy. The title refers to Boston's Oakland Garden theatre, a minor venue that had a brief life, managed by Isaac B. Rich in the mid-1880's.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 82. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2), c. 1880’s; No. 421, p. 47. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 115.

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