Blue Skies On The Ridge: A Song History

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"Blue Skies On The Ridge" is one of the pieces in Ellen Pratt's Ensemble Arrangements For The Mountain Dulcimer, Volume 7, a book published by Ellen Pratt, where it is set in DAD tuning for four dulcimers: first and second parts, a third for standard or bass dulcimer, and a fourth giving chord backup.[1] The listing says the volume combines traditional and classical material with a number of original melodies, and Pratt's own store page calls its contents original and traditional arrangements, but neither names a composer for this piece, so the sources consulted here do not settle whether it is her own tune or say when it was written.[1][2] Her DulcimerDownloads biography dates her first dulcimer compositions to around 2004 and places the start of her ensemble writing and arranging after she joined a dulcimer orchestra in northeastern Connecticut.[3]

Mountain peak and ridges above autumn forest under clearing storm clouds

Thomas Cole, View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm, oil on canvas, 1838. Shown for its mountain ridges; it has no connection to the piece.

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Sources

  1. Ellen Pratt: "Ensemble Arrangements For The Mountain Dulcimer, Volume 7".
  2. Ellen S. Pratt: "Ensemble Arrangements for Mountain Dulcimer Volume 7".
  3. DulcimerDownloads: "Ellen Pratt".
  4. Image: Thomas Cole, View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm, oil on canvas, 1838. The Cleveland Museum of Art.

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