Henry Purcell (1659–1695)
Trumpet Tune, from The Indian Queen
Purcell's own keyboard setting of a trumpet tune from his music for The Indian Queen (1695)
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at quarter note = 120: the middle speed of the 63 pieces in 3/4 in the library whose files set one. Its length counts from that.
Plays on a MIDI keyboard in Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer, or Chrome on an Android phone or tablet, or on the keys on screen without one.
Versions
Each easier version only leaves notes out and adds none, so every note in it is the piece's own. Print any of them free.
- As written282 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand262 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots182 notes
- Right-hand melody158 notes
The easy version, the melody and left-hand roots at level 2, engraved on its own page.
To practise it on paper: a practice chart for this piece, a week of steps from each hand alone to full tempo, with their speeds.
What it asks of you
- Treble clef from C4 to A5, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from C2 to C4, with ledger lines
- No key signature to keep in mind
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), octaves, 3rds (skips), 4ths, 5ths
- Chords: inverted triads, triads
- Hands playing together, one hand moving while the other holds, moving the hand to a new position, hands taking turns, hands in different rhythms
What stands between you and this piece
Clefsight compares the notes of this piece with what you already read.
Score typed for Clefsight from Novello, Ewer and Co., London, 1895, ed. W. Barclay Squire and E. J. Hopkins, plate 10040 (scan on IMSLP), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: Henry Purcell died in 1695. Credits