The Break Of Spring: A Song History

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"The Break Of Spring" is the tenth of fifteen titles in Tom McConnell's Music From The Heart, a mountain dulcimer book from Airway Publishing that DulcimerDownloads presents as a collection of McConnell's original music.[1] Every piece in it is set in DAD tuning, and the ZIP download holds the complete 44-page book alongside a folder of single-song PDFs and a folder of MP3 tracks, one per tune.[1] On his DulcimerDownloads artist page, music is described as McConnell's hobby; his instruments are listed as mountain dulcimer, guitar, ukulele and, to a lesser extent, bass, and the label he gives his own playing, "acoustic folk," is said to take in Americana, blues, bluegrass and jazz as well.[2] Nothing in the sources consulted here dates the tune or explains its title, and the only recording they point to is the MP3 in the download; its attribution to McConnell likewise rests on the listing's description of the book as a whole rather than on a credit for this title.[1]

Wood engraving of a woman and children resting on a stone wall beneath a tree in blossom

Winslow Homer, Spring Blossoms, wood engraving, 1870. Shown for its springtime subject; it has no connection to the tune.

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Sources

  1. Tom McConnell: "Music From The Heart".
  2. DulcimerDownloads: "Tom McConnell".
  3. Image: Winslow Homer, Spring Blossoms, wood engraving, 1870. The Cleveland Museum of Art.

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