Trumpet voluntary
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Trumpet Voluntary is the name given to several English keyboard pieces from the Baroque era. A trumpet voluntary is most commonly played on the organ using the trumpet stop, hence the name. Trumpet voluntaries usually consist of a slow introduction followed by a faster section with the right hand playing fanfare-like figures over a simple accompaniment in the left hand. In some instances, the Trumpet is replaced by the Cornet stop, or even a Flute stop. Echo effects are also used sometimes.
The most celebrated trumpet voluntary is the Prince of Denmark's March, a composition by Jeremiah Clarke written circa. 1700.[1] It is properly a rondo for keyboard and was not originally called a trumpet voluntary. It is very popular as wedding music and was played at the 1981 wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer.[2][3][4] This piece, particularly in a well-known arrangement for trumpet, string orchestra and organ by Sir Henry Wood, was incorrectly attributed for years to Henry Purcell. It is now known to have been the work of Clarke.
The organist and composer John Stanley also wrote a number of trumpet voluntaries, as did Clarke's teacher John Blow.
References
- ^ Gerald Norris (1981) A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland p.61. David & Charles, 1981
- ^ Dan Fox (2007) World's Greatest Wedding Music: 50 of the Most Requested Wedding Pieces p.7. Alfred Music Publishing, 2007. Retrieved January 4, 2011
- ^ Lefevre, Holly (2010) The Everything Wedding Checklist Book: All You Need to Remember for a Day You'll Never Forget p.127. Adams Media, 2010
- ^ Bride Magazine, Inc. (2003). Bride's Book of Etiquette, p. 231. New York: The Berkley Publishing Group. ISBN 0-399-52866-0.
Free scores
- IMSLP Twelve Voluntaries for the Organ or Harpsichord. Selected from the Works of several Eminent Authors. Ca 1780. (Anonymous composers, except no. 3 by John Stanley)
- IMSLP Collection of Voluntaries for Organ or Harpsichord, composed by Dr. Green, Mr. Travers and several other eminent Masters (1765).
- John Beckwith 6 Voluntaries for the Organ or Harpsichord (1780).
- Thomas Sanders Dupuis Voluntary in C.
- William Goodwin Twelve Voluntaries for the Organ or Harpsichord (1776).
- Maurice Greene Twelve Voluntaries for the Organ or Harpsichord (1779).
- William Russell 24 Voluntaries for the Organ or Pianoforte, in two vol. (1804 ?, 1812).
- John Stanley 30 Voluntaries for Organ or Harpsichord, Op. 5, Op. 6 & Op. 7.
- John Travers Voluntary XI from XII Voluntaries for the Organ or Harpsichord (ca 1769).