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For many years, the Trumpet Voluntary remained the European Service signature tune of the BBC World Service. [10] [11] It is the corps march, both slow and quick, of the British Army's Royal Army Chaplains' Department. [12]
A trumpet voluntary is a voluntary – a musical composition for the organ – played using the trumpet stop.Trumpet voluntaries are associated with the English Baroque era and 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.
Jeremiah Clarke (c. 1674 – 1 December 1707) [1] was an English baroque composer and organist, best known for his Trumpet Voluntary, a popular piece often played at wedding ceremonies or commencement ceremonies.
There seems to be confusion about the two so-called Trumpet pieces by Clarke. The Trumpet Tune in D, formerly ascribed to Purcell, is identical with the Second Act-Tune of The Island Princess, but not with the Prince of Denmark's March. The latter is also called Trumpet Voluntary and was misattributed to Purcell as well. Both are described and ...
The title 'voluntary' was often used by English composers during the late Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical periods. Originally, the term was used for a piece of organ music that was free in style, and was intended to sound improvised (the word voluntary in general means "proceeding from the will or from one's own choice or consent"). [1]
Since the televised wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981, there has been an upsurge in popularity of Jeremiah Clarke's "Prince of Denmark's March" for use as processional music; the piece was formerly (and incorrectly) attributed to Henry Purcell as Trumpet Voluntary.
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He established that ‘Purcell's Trumpet Voluntary’ was by Jeremiah Clarke. [4] He was also a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. In addition, he was also interested in local history, architecture, poetry and was librettist for several works by his friend Patrick Hadley. [5] [2] [3]