Senatobia Winter: A Song History
"Senatobia Winter" comes from DulciFlute, John and Karen Keane's collection of duets for mountain dulcimer and Native American flute, which DulcimerDownloads sells as a PDF download with MP3 recordings played by the two authors; the listing says the book is published by Fingers Of Steel.[1] According to the listing, every one of its sixteen pieces is an original, with the flute part written out in notation and the dulcimer part given as chords, though it credits the collection to both Keanes without saying which of them wrote this tune.[1] John and Karen Keane come from Shreveport, Louisiana, hold music-education degrees from what is now the University of Louisiana-Monroe, and are described on their DulcimerDownloads artist pages as active composers of original music for mountain dulcimer and Native American flute.[2][3]
Yeoseol, Winter Landscape, hanging scroll; ink and slight color on silk, 1500s. Shown for its winter scene; it has no connection to the tune or to Mississippi.
Senatobia is also the name of a city, the seat of Tate County in northwestern Mississippi, which the city's website places 30 minutes south of Memphis, Tennessee.[4][5] Nothing in the sources consulted here connects the tune to the town, records when it was written, or explains what prompted its title.[1][2][3]
Sources
- Fingers Of Steel: "John Keane And Karen Keane, DulciFlute".
- DulcimerDownloads: "John Keane".
- DulcimerDownloads: "Karen Keane".
- Mississippi Encyclopedia: "Tate County".
- City of Senatobia: "About Senatobia".
- Image: Yeoseol, Winter Landscape, hanging scroll; ink and slight color on silk, 1500s. The Cleveland Museum of Art.