Snowflakes Drift Among the Leaves: A Song History

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"Snowflakes Drift Among the Leaves" appears in Ellen Pratt's Ensemble Arrangements For The Mountain Dulcimer, Volume 5, a book of multipart dulcimer ensemble pieces that Pratt publishes herself and that DulcimerDownloads sells as a 74-page PDF download.[1] The listing gives the piece in four separate parts, labeled Dulcimer 1 through Dulcimer 4, all in DAD tuning.[1] It does not name a composer for the tune or say whether it is one of Pratt's own pieces or her arrangement of someone else's.[1] Pratt's DulcimerDownloads artist page says she began writing her own dulcimer music in 2004 and that she took up ensemble writing and arranging once she had become a member of a dulcimer orchestra in northeast Connecticut.[2] Nothing in the sources consulted here records who wrote the tune, when it was written or what lies behind its title.[1][2]

Ink painting of snow-laden bamboo leaves beside a rock

Hong Fan, Bamboo in Snow, hanging scroll; ink on paper, 1818. Snow on bamboo leaves, shown for the title; it has no connection to the tune.

Our book that contains the song "Snowflakes Drift Among the Leaves"

Sources

  1. Ellen Pratt: "Ensemble Arrangements For The Mountain Dulcimer, Volume 5".
  2. DulcimerDownloads: "Ellen Pratt".
  3. Image: Hong Fan, Bamboo in Snow, hanging scroll; ink on paper, 1818. The Cleveland Museum of Art.

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