Seasons Lost: A Song History

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"Seasons Lost" is the fourteenth of the fifteen songs listed for Music From The Heart, Tom McConnell's dulcimer book from Airway Publishing, which DulcimerDownloads offers as a PDF download bundled with MP3 recordings of each piece.[1] According to the listing, the book gathers McConnell's own original music, and every tune in it, this one included, is written for DAD tuning.[1] McConnell, whom the listing calls a college professor, is presented on his DulcimerDownloads artist page as a hobbyist who plays mountain dulcimer, guitar, ukulele and a little bass, in a style he calls "acoustic folk" with borrowings from blues, bluegrass, Americana and jazz.[1][2] Nothing in the sources consulted here records when the piece was written or what lies behind its title.[1][2]

Ink painting of a tall rock topped with pine trees, a pavilion at its foot, distant hills and an inscription

Xiao Yuncong, Album of Seasonal Landscapes, Leaf G (previous leaf 7), album leaf; ink and light color on paper, 1668. Shown for the seasons in the title; it has no connection to the tune.

Our book that contains the song "Seasons Lost"

Sources

  1. Tom McConnell: "Music From The Heart".
  2. DulcimerDownloads: "Tom McConnell".
  3. Image: Xiao Yuncong, Album of Seasonal Landscapes, Leaf G (previous leaf 7), album leaf; ink and light color on paper, 1668. The Cleveland Museum of Art.

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