Wishing For Wings: A Song History

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"Wishing For Wings" is the seventh of fifteen titles in the "Songs included" list on the DulcimerDownloads listing for Tom McConnell's Music From The Heart, and like every other piece there it is set in DAD tuning.[1] The seller describes the book, issued by Airway Publishing and sold on the site as a licensed download, as McConnell's original music, and each piece comes with its own MP3 so buyers can hear the notation played.[1] His DulcimerDownloads artist page calls him a hobby musician; besides the mountain dulcimer he plays guitar and ukulele, and dabbles on bass.[2]

Painting on silk of a lone figure on a hillside watching a line of geese fly over distant hills

Ma Lin, Landscape with Flying Geese, album leaf; ink and slight color on silk, mid-1200s. A figure watching geese in flight, shown for the title; it has no connection to the piece.

Nothing in the sources consulted here explains the flight imagery of the title, dates the piece, tells how it came to be written, or points to a recording other than the MP3 that comes with the book.[1][2] Even the attribution rests on the listing's general description: no composer is named beside the individual titles, so McConnell's authorship of this one is assumed rather than stated.[1]

Our book that contains the song "Wishing For Wings"

Sources

  1. Tom McConnell: "Music From The Heart".
  2. DulcimerDownloads: "Tom McConnell".
  3. Image: Ma Lin, Landscape with Flying Geese, album leaf; ink and slight color on silk, mid-1200s. The Cleveland Museum of Art.

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