An Album of Trumpet Tunes for Organ.(Book Review)

compiled and edited by Dale Tucker. Warner Bros. (15800 N. W. 48th Ave., Miami, FL 33014), 1997. 118 pp., $10.95.

As a trumpeter, I have played a number of trumpet tunes and voluntaries that were transcriptions of original baroque organ works. So naturally, when asked by AMT to review a collection of them, I was more than eager. But my enthusiastic anticipation became a letdown when I received them and discovered this anthology under review consists of just organ works. Well, the initial disappointment has now transformed into a curiosity regarding this collection. So here's what you organists can expect.

This is a set of twenty-nine short pieces, most truly titled "Trumpet Tunes," but also "trumpet" voluntaries, fanfares and processions. The preface of this publication mentions that a number of these works originally came from the St. Cecilia Organ Series, while the rest originated from both the Warner Bros. and Belwin catalogs. Actually, many have a copyright from that well-known sacred music publisher, H. W. Gray Company. In fact, you literally can see that this collection was culled from different sources, since certain numbers clearly ...