- The Prince of Denmark’s March is a short harpsichord piece by Jeremiah Clarke which appeared in an anthology entitled A Choice Collection of Ayres for the Harpsichord or Spinett, published in England in 1700.1
- The collection also included contributions by John Blow, Francis Piggot, John Barrett & William Croft.2
- This piece rocketed to fame after English composer & conductor Sir Henry Wood arranged it for trumpet, organ, and drums, called it “Trumpet Voluntary,” and attributed it to Henry Purcell.3
- Wood was not the first to misattribute this piece to Purcell; there had been confusion about this since at least 1870, when a Victorian organist published an edition of the piece, attributed to Purcell, under the title “Trumpet Voluntary.”4
- Prince George of Denmark was the consort of Queen Anne, who reigned from 1702-1714.
Sources
- Christopher, H. Powell, Diack Johnstone, and Watkins Shaw, “Clarke [Clark, Clerk], Jeremiah (i),” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed February 19, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000005874.
- “A Choice Collection of Ayres (Various),” IMSLP, accessed February 19, 2021, https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Choice_Collection_of_Ayres_(Various).
- Christopher, H. Powell, Diack Johnstone, and Watkins Shaw, “Clarke [Clark, Clerk], Jeremiah (i),” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed February 19, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000005874.
- Charles Cudworth and Franklin B. Zimmerman, “The Trumpet Voluntary,” in Music and Letters 41, No. 4 (October 1960), 342-48, accessed February 19, 2021, http://www.jstor.org/stable/733054.
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