Purcell's Trumpet Tune--Authentic version?
Diane Reid
in fact by Jeremiah Clark (Clarke?).
Diane
Peter Hirsch
>There is a piece by Purcell commonly played at weddings and performed and
>recorded by brass ensembles. It's his so-called "Trumpet Tune in D." It
>is my understanding that this piece was originally for harpsichord. Can
>anyone fill me in? Purcell's works are cataloged as Z. ____. Does
>anyone know the Z. number for this work? Are there any recordings of the
>authentic original version of this work? Thanks.
>Dave
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While there is a Trumpet Tune and Air in "The Indian Queen" (Z 639)
and also a Trumpet Tune in "King Arthur: (Z 628) and a transcription
for organ of the "Indian Queen" selection (Z T698), I am pretty sure
that the piece you are referring to is Jeremiah Clarke's "Trumpet
Voluntary" which was long attributed to Henry Purcell but is
definitely by Clarke. There are numerous recordings available of all
of these. If you can't locate any of them at your local CD shop,
please e-mail me and I'll try to give you a hand.
Peter Hirsch
MUZE, Inc.
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James H. Haynes
In article <48snnu$5...@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca>, Diane Reid <crw...@bnr.ca> wrote:
>I understand that the Trumpet Tune, originally attributed to Henry Purcell, is
>in fact by Jeremiah Clark (Clarke?).
>
at least lately on the radio one of them is said to be by Purcell and the
other is said to be by Clark(e?). Maybe one is called "Trumpet Tune" and
the other is called "Trumpet Voluntary".
Can someone clarify the whole situation, preferably with something easy
to remember?
Tom Wood
> There is a piece by Purcell commonly played at weddings and performed and
> recorded by brass ensembles. It's his so-called "Trumpet Tune in D." It
> is my understanding that this piece was originally for harpsichord. Can
> anyone fill me in? Purcell's works are cataloged as Z. ____. Does
> anyone know the Z. number for this work? Are there any recordings of the
> authentic original version of this work? Thanks.
> Dave
Purcell wrote lots of "Trumpet Tunes," but the most famous one is not
by Purcell -- it's by Jeremiah Clarke (as is the famous Trumpet
Voluntary). Clarke's "Trumpet Tune" is the one often played at
weddings (often still erroneously attributed to Purcell). Because of
that 19th-century misattribution, the piece has a Z. number (tho don't
ask me what it is).
Clarke published harpsichord arrangements of both these pieces, but they
originated as pieces for solo trumpet and winds. Crispian Steele-Perkins
has recorded them in a delightful EMI disk called "Shore's Trumpet"
(in honor of the famous John Shore, for whom Purcell and others wrote
their trumpet music). Steele-Perkins plays natural trumpets in that
recording, including one made in 1680.
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Dave Griegel
> gri...@umd.edu (David Griegel) wrote:
> >There is a piece by Purcell commonly played at weddings and performed and
> >recorded by brass ensembles. It's his so-called "Trumpet Tune in D." It
> >is my understanding that this piece was originally for harpsichord. Can
> >anyone fill me in? Purcell's works are cataloged as Z. ____. Does
> >anyone know the Z. number for this work? Are there any recordings of the
> >authentic original version of this work? Thanks.
> While there is a Trumpet Tune and Air in "The Indian Queen" (Z 639)
> and also a Trumpet Tune in "King Arthur: (Z 628) and a transcription
> for organ of the "Indian Queen" selection (Z T698), I am pretty sure
> that the piece you are referring to is Jeremiah Clarke's "Trumpet
> Voluntary" which was long attributed to Henry Purcell but is
> definitely by Clarke. There are numerous recordings available of all
> of these. If you can't locate any of them at your local CD shop,
> please e-mail me and I'll try to give you a hand.
Perhaps I should have prefaced my question by saying that I know the difference
between the Purcell Trumpet Tune and the Clarke Trumpet Voluntary. But
information on period instrument performances of either would be appreciated.
Granted there are a number of "Trumpet Tunes" by Purcell, but there's one in
D major that is particularly popular. It and the Clarke are often played
on the same record by brass ensembles such as the Canadian Brass and the
Empire Brass. I've looked at the orchestral music listing for Purcell in
New Grove, and they don't list an independent Trumpet Tune in D. What gives?
Tom Wood
> Perhaps I should have prefaced my question by saying that I know the difference
> between the Purcell Trumpet Tune and the Clarke Trumpet Voluntary. But
> information on period instrument performances of either would be appreciated.
> Granted there are a number of "Trumpet Tunes" by Purcell, but there's one in
> D major that is particularly popular. It and the Clarke are often played
> on the same record by brass ensembles such as the Canadian Brass and the
> Empire Brass. I've looked at the orchestral music listing for Purcell in
> New Grove, and they don't list an independent Trumpet Tune in D. What gives?
Easy: the Trumpet Tune you're referring to is ALSO by Jeremiah Clarke!
And almost all trumpet tunes are in D (since that was the pitch for
which most natural trumpets were constructed).
David Griegel
: Dave Griegel (gri...@cyclops.iucf.indiana.edu) wrote:
: > Perhaps I should have prefaced my question by saying that I know the difference
: > between the Purcell Trumpet Tune and the Clarke Trumpet Voluntary. But
: > information on period instrument performances of either would be appreciated.
: > Granted there are a number of "Trumpet Tunes" by Purcell, but there's one in
: > D major that is particularly popular. It and the Clarke are often played
: > on the same record by brass ensembles such as the Canadian Brass and the
: > Empire Brass. I've looked at the orchestral music listing for Purcell in
: > New Grove, and they don't list an independent Trumpet Tune in D. What gives?
: Easy: the Trumpet Tune you're referring to is ALSO by Jeremiah Clarke!
: And almost all trumpet tunes are in D (since that was the pitch for
: which most natural trumpets were constructed).
Let me see if I have this right. There's the Prince of Denmark's March by
Clarke, which used to be incorrectly attributed to Purcell. This piece is
also known as Trumpet Voluntary. Are you now saying that the Trumpet Tune
in D, which is still said to be by Purcell, is also actually by Clarke?
One would think that both errors would have been caught at about the same
time. When was the second misattribution discovered? Do you know of any
reference?
Many thanks,
Peter Hirsch
several "Trumpet Tunes" by Purcell from various larger works like "The
Indian Princess" and "King Arthur" What you jear on the radio could be
any one of these. Depending how on the ball the announcer is, you may
or may not be able to tell which one.
Romain Kang
| I understand that the Trumpet Tune, originally attributed to Henry
| Purcell, is in fact by Jeremiah Clark (Clarke?).
As others have noted, there are numerous Purcell "Trumpet Tunes",
which are commonly specified by the opera for which they were
written; my impression is that when unadorned, "Purcell's Trumpet
Tune" most often refers to the one that recurs in _King Arthur_.
The practice (which I seemed to observe in England) for setting
Clarke's piece aside from the Purcell works seems to be to call it
"The Prince of Denmark's March". However, at a concert I saw in
Oxford this summer, the lead trumpeter said that when couples selected
music for weddings, he found it easiest to simply refer to the piece
as Purcell's, rather than risk confusing them more.
Romain Kang Pyramid Technology Corp.
rom...@pyramid.com San Jose, California, USA
Stephen Wilcox
James H. Haynes <hay...@cats.ucsc.edu> wrote:
>I'm constantly bewildered about this. There are two different tunes, and
>at least lately on the radio one of them is said to be by Purcell and the
>other is said to be by Clark(e?). Maybe one is called "Trumpet Tune" and
>the other is called "Trumpet Voluntary".
>
>Can someone clarify the whole situation, preferably with something easy
>to remember?
The Prince of Denmark's March is by Clarke. It goes: Daah, Dyyyy
diddle dumm da daa daa, daa daa daa diddle daa dum dum dum. It's often
called the Trumpet Voluntary.
Purcell wrote several trumpet tunes, but the most famous one goes: Dum
dum daah da dum-dy dum-dy dum dum, dum dum dum dum dum-dy dum-dy daa.
(if you want notes, the Clarke is D---- E DE F#.G F# E, D E F# ED E A
A A and the Purcell is A A A.G F#.E D.F# E A, F# A D A D.E F# G E----)
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Tom Wood
> Stephen Wilcox (wil...@maths.ox.ac.uk) wrote:
> : In article <48t9ed$o...@darkstar.ucsc.edu>,
> : James H. Haynes <hay...@cats.ucsc.edu> wrote:
> : Purcell wrote several trumpet tunes, but the most famous one goes: Dum
> : dum daah da dum-dy dum-dy dum dum, dum dum dum dum dum-dy dum-dy daa.
> : (if you want notes, the Clarke is D---- E DE F#.G F# E, D E F# ED E A
> : A A and the Purcell is A A A.G F#.E D.F# E A, F# A D A D.E F# G E----)
BOTH pieces are by Clarke. The first, as you correctly note, is Clarke's
"Prince of Denmark's March." The second, variously known as Trumpet Aire,
Trumpet Song, etc. is from Clarke's incidental music to the play "The
Island Princess."
Most recordings now correctly attribute the "Voluntary" to Clarke -- but
the Trumpet Tune/Song/Aire is still often attributed to Purcell.
As I stated earlier, Crispian Steele-Perkins' EMI CD "Shore's Trumpet"
includes period-instrument performances of both pieces -- both
attributed to Clarke.
crisp...@freenetname.co.uk
> I understand that the Trumpet Tune, originally attributed to Henry Purcell, is
> in fact by Jeremiah Clark (Clarke?).
>
I stumbled across this question some 21 years after it was posted, it now being 2016 ! 'Prince of Denmark's March' seems to have been dealt with but 'Trumpet Tune' as we know it comes from music which Jeremiah Clarke contributed to a semi-Opera entitled 'The Island Princess'. When researching my recording "Shore's Trumpet" in 1986 I discovered many different versions of this melody, also sometimes called 'A Scottish Tune'. Evidently it was already a popular tune and when published in a keyboard version c1700 it was probably a marketing ploy to attribute it to Purcell who was by far the most famous composer of that time [even though he had been dead for 5 years] Crispian Steele-Perkins