Fanfare Of Hope: A Song History
"Fanfare Of Hope" opens the song list of DulciFlute 3, John Keane and Karen Keane's Fingers Of Steel book of duets for Native American flute and mountain dulcimer, which calls for a dulcimer tuned DAD and a flute in B minor.[1] The download bundles a 26-page PDF of the book, a separate PDF for each of its fourteen pieces, and a folder of MP3 recordings of the songs.[1] The Keanes, who come from Shreveport, Louisiana, both hold music education degrees from Northeast Louisiana University, today the University of Louisiana-Monroe, and they have composed and released several books and CDs of their own music for dulcimer and flute.[2][3] The listing does not say who composed this piece, and the sources consulted here say nothing about when it was written or how it got its title.[1][2][3]
W. Duke, Sons & Co., Heralds Trumpet, from the Musical Instruments series (N82) for Duke brand cigarettes, commercial color lithograph, 1888. Shown for its herald's trumpet; it has no connection to the tune.
As background on the word, not on this tune, Britannica explains that the fanfare began as a brief signal figure for trumpets, horns and other "natural" instruments, at times with percussion added, and that it served at hunts, on the battlefield and at court.[4] According to the same article, the first fanfares preserved in musical notation are found in fourteenth-century French treatises on hunting, and among its twentieth-century American examples is Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" (1942).[4]
Sources
- Fingers Of Steel: "John Keane And Karen Keane, DulciFlute 3".
- DulcimerDownloads: "John Keane".
- DulcimerDownloads: "Karen Keane".
- Encyclopaedia Britannica: "Fanfare".
- Image: W. Duke, Sons & Co., Heralds Trumpet, from the Musical Instruments series (N82) for Duke brand cigarettes, commercial color lithograph, 1888. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.