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...some scored for full orchestra, running as long as three minutes. Most of them explore themes suggested by their titles-Cowell's, for example, uses a Mexican air. Fanfare, a French word of possible Moorish derivation, is allied to the Elizabethan stage directions sennet (also senet, sennate, cynet, signet, signate) and tucket, both indicating musical flourishes. There are no musical samples extant of sennets and tuckets. Sennet may have derived from "seven," perhaps meant a seven-note trumpet call. Tucket most probably stems from the Italian toccata (meaning a touch), and in all likelihood originally signified a drum sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Let the Trumpets Sound | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

Votes will be collected in boxes set up in the dining halls of each of the seven Houses, in Sever, Dudley, and Harvard Halls. Other special ballot containers are being stationed with the Signet Society and at the headquarters of local clubs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '46 to Select Jubilee Committee Members | 3/30/1943 | See Source »

Something new has been added to the production of "Othello," which is being presented at the Cambridge Summer Theatre by Paul Robeson, who arrived at a new method of interpreting Othello's famed epilectic fit through the study of actual medical cases, it was disclosed at a Dramatic Club-Signet Society party yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROBESON, GUEST OF HDC, TELLS OF OTHELLO INTERPRETATION | 8/14/1942 | See Source »

...from prefect, and who is experimenting to work out new ideas all the time, was entertained as guest of honor, with Margaret, Webster, Jose Ferrer, Uta Hagen, and other members of the cast of "Othello" at a cocktail party given jointly by the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Signet Society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROBESON, GUEST OF HDC, TELLS OF OTHELLO INTERPRETATION | 8/14/1942 | See Source »

...cocktail party was given by the Dramatic Club and the Signet Society in order that the members of the cast of Dracula, which the Dramatic Club is producing on August 20, 21, and 22, might meet the cast of "Othello...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROBESON, GUEST OF HDC, TELLS OF OTHELLO INTERPRETATION | 8/14/1942 | See Source »

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