Trumpet Volunteer
Jerry Wang
Volunteer?
Thanks!
Jerry-
Keith Edgerley
by Peter Sellers - based on the Trumpet Voluntary.
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Keith
Sapere aude
Kip & Cathy
mean--the piece Chuck and Di got married to) follows:
Written by Jeremiah Clarke, who I think may have been American (note the
uncertainty), as a movement in a piano sonata. How it got from piano sonata
(or keyboard sonata, more likely) to an ensemble piece I don't know, but I
happened on the music to the keyboard version in a now-defunct music store.
It looks different in detail from what we know, but of course it's the same
piece.
There's also a "trumpet involuntary" by PDQ Bach...
--Kip Williams
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Adrian Hunter
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> Jerry, what I know of the Trumpet Voluntary (I'm guessing that's what you
> mean--the piece Chuck and Di got married to) follows:
>
> Written by Jeremiah Clarke, who I think may have been American (note the
> uncertainty), as a movement in a piano sonata. How it got from piano sonata
> (or keyboard sonata, more likely) to an ensemble piece I don't know,
Presumably by way of the organ. Well, that's what one would
normally connect with the word "voluntary" (a piece played at the
end of a church service for those who don't know), and trumpet
being the prominent solo stop.
(cf Trumpet Tune by Purcell, or Tuba Tune by Cocker which are
organ pieces (or were originally I hope!) -- not necessarily
obvious from the titles.)
Adrian
Yves-Andre Schaeffer
> Anyone knows the composer and the background/history...etc of Trumpet
> Volunteer?
If you mean the "Trumpet Voluntary" by Jeremiah Clarke, unfortunatley not
much.... other than the fact that it is sometimes called "The Prince Of
Denmark's March", and was for most of its history malattributed to
Purcell... Hope this helps....
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> Anyone knows the composer and the background/history...etc of Trumpet
> Volunteer?
>
>
> Jerry-
Trumpet Voluntary
by Jeremiah Clark
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Jerry Wang wrote in message...
>Anyone knows the composer and the background/history...etc of Trumpet
>Volunteer?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Jerry-
I assume you mean the piece called "Purcell's Trumpet Voluntary", often used
as the processional or recessional at weddings. (It was used at Chuck and
Di's wedding back in '81/'82.) As E. Power Biggs once commented, it is
perhaps the most singularly inappropriately named piece of music, as it is
neither by [Henry] Purcell, nor for trumpet, nor a Voluntary. It is "The
Prince of Denmark's March" by Jeremiah Clarke (English composer, ca.
1673-1707; an approximate contemporary of Purcell); and it is for keyboard
(harpsichord or organ; few if any English organs of the period had pedals,
so pieces could be played on either). The piece is often (if not usually)
performed in an arrangement where the melody is played by a trumpet. There
are also other pieces written for keyboard imitative of trumpet music with
names such as (for example) John Stanley's "A Trumpet Tune" and Purcell's
"Trumpet Tune 'Bonduca' ".
Probably more than you wanted to know, but what the heck.
Frank Decolvenaere
a...@cts.canberra.edu.au
keith.e...@bluewin.ch wrote:
> Jerry Wang wrote:
> >
> > Anyone knows the composer and the background/history...etc of
Trumpet
> > Volunteer?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Jerry-
sketch
> by Peter Sellers - based on the Trumpet Voluntary.
> --
A satire of late 1950s BBC interviews with rock singers, often
near-illiterates from the East End who were picked up by smooth-talking
business men in search of quick profits and rough trade, irrespective of
any *musical* talent. Cf "Sonny English" in Private Eye's "Barry
Mackenzie" cartoon strip.
"Don't knock the rock, cock,
Don't knock the roll, Noel ... "
Andrew Clarke
Canberra
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Jerry Wang
I think I've got enough info's to answer a long-time puzzle. I've
heard this piece of music many times in many weddings, people also ask
me about this music from time to time. Now I know that I was not just
wrong about the name, I didn't even know that it's not originally
composed for trumpet!
Guess I can have a good night sleep now...:-)
Thanks a million!
Jerry-
Ross Fletcher
>From: hu...@mindspring.com (Jerry Wang)
>Subject: Trumpet Volunteer
>Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 08:39:59 GMT
>Anyone knows the composer and the background/history...etc of Trumpet
>Volunteer?
The Trumpet Volunteer was a sketch on the LP "The Best of Sellers" in which
Peter Sellers conducted an interview with Mr Iron - a takeoff of Tommy Steel -
a Cockney rock star of the early '60s. The sketch included comments on
classical music and how it could be turned into rock'n roll. It concluded
with a rock version of the Trumpet Voluntary.
Wyremusik
"Jeremiah Clarke wurde um 1674 vermutlich in London geboren. Er war Chorknabe
an der Chapel Royal untrer John Blow, dann von 1692-1695 Organist am Winchester
College, 1693 übernahm er als Nachfolger von John Blow, der zurücktrat, die
Leitung des Knaabenchors an St. Paul's, 1695 wurde er Organist der Kathedrale
und 1705 Chorleiter, nachdem er 1700 zum Gentleman der Chapel Royal ernannt
worden waar. Er starb in London am 1.12.1707.
Werke: Er schrieb zahlreiche Anthems, Services, Psaalmen, Oden, Ayres,
verschiedene Instrumentalmusik, viele Bühnenmusiken und Suiten für Cembalo.
Sein Stil ähnelt sehr dem von Henry Purcell." Lothar