TRUMPET TUNE & AIR

Trumpet Tune and Air
After much research and deliberation Superbrass HQ has decided to attribute this piece to Henry Purcell not Jeremiah Clarke. Clarke is best remembered for 'The Prince of Denmark's March', which is commonly called the 'Trumpet Voluntary', written about 1700. From the late 1870's until the 1940s the 'Prince of Denmark' was attributed to Henry Purcell, and was published as 'Trumpet Voluntary' by Henry Purcell in William Sparkes's Short Pieces for the Organ, Book VII, No. 1. Music scholars and historians are still arguing about who actually composed 'Trumpet Tune and Air'. What is certain is that it originated and was taken from the semi-opera 'The Island Princess', the story about a group of European voyagers who travel to the Spice Islands and are astounded by the alien culture they meet there. Semi-operas were popular and developed in England between 1673 and 1710 and were performed with singing, speaking and dancing roles. Along with Henry Purcell it is pretty c

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