The Festive Baroque Revival: An Analysis of David German’s Trumpet Tune
Following its sudden popularity, it was published by Fred Bock Music Company in 1990, where it is still sold as a standard for weddings and festival Sundays. Musical Style and Structure david german trumpet tune
The right hand (or solo trumpet stop) presents a fanfare motif consisting of ascending broken triads (D-F#-A) followed by a dotted rhythm (long-short-long). Unlike Purcell’s driving rhythmic cells, German introduces a small chromatic neighbor tone (e.g., D-Eb-D) in the B section, giving it a mildly “bluesy” or Romantic inflection—a clear 20th-century fingerprint. The Festive Baroque Revival: An Analysis of David