Footsteps To The Wind: A Song History

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"Footsteps To The Wind" is the third of fourteen titles listed for DulciFlute 3, John Keane and Karen Keane's collection of duets pairing a mountain dulcimer, tuned DAD, with a Native American flute in B minor, published by Fingers Of Steel.[1] The download holds the book as a 26-page PDF, every song again as a separate PDF, and a folder of 28 MP3 tracks for listening alongside the notation.[1] The Keanes are Shreveport, Louisiana, performers who earned music education degrees at Northeast Louisiana University, now the University of Louisiana-Monroe, and John Keane's DulcimerDownloads page credits them with several books and CDs of their own music for dulcimer and flute.[2] The listing names no composer for this piece, and the sources consulted here mention no recording of it outside the book and give no explanation of its title.[1][2]

Woodblock print of travelers on a path bending against a strong wind as papers and a hat fly into the air, with Mount Fuji outlined in the distance

Katsushika Hokusai, Ejiri in Suruga Province (Sunshū Ejiri), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei), woodblock print, ink and color on paper, ca. 1830–32. Shown for its windswept scene; it has no connection to the tune.

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Sources

  1. Fingers Of Steel: "John Keane And Karen Keane, DulciFlute 3".
  2. DulcimerDownloads: "John Keane".
  3. Image: Katsushika Hokusai, Ejiri in Suruga Province (Sunshū Ejiri), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei), woodblock print, ink and color on paper, ca. 1830–32. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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