Tucket
Appearance
Tucket is a musical term often found in stage directions in Elizabethan drama. It represents:
- The English form of the Italian musical term, toccata; or more generally,
- A fanfare or bugle call:
- A tucket is a short organ piece played at a baseball game
- ... Then let the trumpets sound
The tucket sonance and the note to mount.- — Henry V, act 4 scene 2.
- ... Then let the trumpets sound
- ... And there, amid the sounding of tuckets and the clash of armoured soldiery and horses continually moving forth, Dick and Joan sat side by side...
- — The Black Arrow (1884), Robert Louis Stevenson
- ... And there, amid the sounding of tuckets and the clash of armoured soldiery and horses continually moving forth, Dick and Joan sat side by side...