Purcell

[ThomLongIsland]

<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Hi, </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px">
</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Here's a music history question I've wondered about for some time. Some of the trumpet tunes by Purcell have a name attached: Trumpet Tune Bonducca; Trumpet Tune Cebell. Does anyone know for certain what those names refer to? I guess they are the names of people (for whom it was written or to whom it was dedicated), or names of places. But that's my guess. What does anyone think?</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px">
</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Thom</p>

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Re: Purcell



I am not familiar with either of those Trumpet Tunes specifically, but I suspect the word "from the stage work" after the word "Trumpet Tune" would probably be required to make sense of those references.
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This supposition is confirmed via a quick Google search, which reveals the following information:</p><ul>[*]According to Wikipedia, one of the last stage works that Purcell wrote music for was called Bonduca or The British Heroine (1695) - ie, the story of she who is more commonly known as Boadicea or Boudica. There are indeed several Google references to a "Trumpet Tune from <span style="font-style: italic;">Bonduca</span>". Interestingly, the official Zimmerman catalogue entries for the Incidental Music from Bonduca (Z574) do not list any "Trumpet Tune" as such but the Parley of Instruments recording of Z574 profiles the trumpet for several of the instrumental-only movements - see the Hyperion Records performers' listing for each movement of that recording .[/list]
<ul>[*]From the Liner Notes for the recording of "<span class="piecedata"><font class="piecename">Trumpet Tune for Harpsichord in C major, Z T678 "Cibell"</font> by <font>Henry Purcell </font></span>":[/list]<div style="margin-left: 80px;"><span class="listdata">"The Purcell Suite is taken from a variety
of sources. ,,,, The [Cebell Trumpet Tune] is a transcription of a
transcription. "Cebell" refers to Purcell's
borrowing of the melody of a chorus praising
the goddess Cybele in Lully's opera
Atys. The finale combines the stately
Trumpet Tune, described to both Purcell
and Jeremiah Clarke, with the spirited introduction
to the anthem Rejoice in the
Lord Alway."</span></div>

Amazing what 5 minutes of Google can reveal.</p>

Cheers</p>

Kraammoz
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[ThomLongIsland]

Re: Purcell

<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Thanks for the info Kraammoz, and research! I should have done that myself I guess but it's good to have a resident musicologist on the board! I hadn't thought about stage works as a source. </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px">
</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">I have used the Cebell designation (Trumpet Tune Cebell) for the postlude on a Sunday bulletin, for instance, mainly so people weren't expecting "THE" trumpet tune. Now I wonder what might be a more appropriate title. </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px">
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</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Thom </p>