The Red Rocks Of Sedona: A Song History
Deborah Hamouris includes "The Red Rocks of Sedona" in Indian Summer, her own publication of 24 tunes for standard mountain dulcimer, as a single part in CGC tuning, the only title in the book's listing set in that tuning; the listing names no composer for it.[1]
John K. Hillers, East Fork, de Chelly River, Arizona, albumen print from wet collodion negative, 1879–1881. Canyon de Chelly rather than Sedona, shown for its rock walls; it has no connection to the piece.
A track of the same name, by Hamouris with the jazz guitarist Mimi Fox, appears second on 1 in 8, an album drawn from her experience of breast cancer, which she learned she had in 2015.[2][3] None of the sources consulted here says whether that track and the book's tune are the same piece.[1][2][3] The album's credits list Hamouris as songwriter and Fox as arranger and co-writer, without assigning credits song by song.[2]
Around Sedona, Arizona, the Coconino National Forest's Red Rock Ranger District takes in a landscape famed for its red rock; the Forest Service describes its cliffs as what is left of wetlands from the distant past, cut into shape by the desert.[4] The sources consulted here do not say what led Hamouris to the subject.[2][3]
Sources
- Deborah Hamouris: "Indian Summer".
- DJ Hamouris: "1 in 8".
- DJ Hamouris: "The Red Rocks Of Sedona".
- USDA Forest Service, Coconino National Forest: "Red Rock Ranger District".
- Image: John K. Hillers, East Fork, de Chelly River, Arizona, albumen print from wet collodion negative, 1879–1881. The Cleveland Museum of Art.