Annotation:Mrs. Conway's Chocolate Cake

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MRS. CONWAY’S CHOCOLATE CAKE. Irish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Falmouth, Massachusetss, musician and writer Bill Black, in fond memory of the hospitality of the Conway house on Wallace Ave. in the Bronx. Mrs. Conway was the mother of fiddlers Brian Conway and Rose Conway Flanagan.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Black (Music’s the Very Best Thing), 1996; No. 195, p. 104.

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