Yellow Door Breakdown: A Song History

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"Yellow Door Breakdown" closes Mark Gilston's American Old Time Tunes For Dulcimer, Volume 1, a book of forty old-time tunes arranged for mountain dulcimer and published by Gilston; the table of contents pictured on its DulcimerDownloads listing places it on page 41.[1] The book's alphabetical list of tunes and alternate names, also pictured there, gives it no other title.[1] The sample pages on the listing do not include this tune, so they do not show how the book credits it.[1] Beyond this book, the sources consulted here do not document a tune of this name, and they do not say who composed it, when, or what its title refers to.[1]

Etching of an ornate arched doorway with latticed windows opening onto water, a figure standing inside

James McNeill Whistler, The Doorway, etching, drypoint and roulette, 1880. Shown for the doorway in the title; it has no connection to the tune.

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Sources

  1. Mark Gilston: "American Old Time Tunes For Dulcimer, Volume 1".
  2. Image: James McNeill Whistler, The Doorway, etching, drypoint and roulette, 1880. The Cleveland Museum of Art.

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