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Length: approx. 3 ¾ mins. Sounds best if Bass is doubled.
Blue Goose, written under the pseudonym of Raymond Birch, is a fine, bubbling workmanlike rag. There are speculations that this rag was intended for a University of Delaware fraternity which called its sport teams "The Blue Hens". Amongst his "Classic Rags", Rudi Blesh considered
Blue Goose together with
Cum-Bac (1911) to be "near-classic".
A tempo of 190 crotchets/min. is suggested.
Blue Goose was published by
F.J.A. Forster Music Publisher, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
There is also a
treble solo version of this item.