IranTrumpet The Trumpet Voluntary Author(s): Charles Cudworth and Franklin B. Zimmerman Source: Music & Letters, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Oct., 1960), pp. 342-348 Published by: Oxford University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/733054 Accessed: 26-11-2016 04:51 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms Oxford University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Music & Letters This content downloaded from 188.118.81.43 on Sat, 26 Nov 2016 04:51:10 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms IranTrumpet THE TRUMPET VOLUNTARY CHARLES CUDWORTH & FRANKLIN B. ZIMMERMAN THE tercentenary of Purcell's birth has afforded an excellent oppor- tunity to summarize the known facts about the so-called 'Trumpet Voluntary' which we now know was composed by his younger contemporary Jeremiah Clarke. Year by year the evidence for Clarke's authorship grows stronger, while Purcell's claim recedes. There is no authentic evidence for the Purcellian attribution, whereas a firm ascription to Clarke appears in at least four early sources; there are also several anonymous sources. The most important of the printed sources is 'A Choice Collection of Ayres for the Harpsichord or Spinett' (London, 1700), in which the piece appears on page 13 as 'The Prince of Denmark's March by Mr Clarke' (see the reproduction opposite).