Word: tuckets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sennets and Tuckets. Technically, a fanfare is a brief passage (from two to 25 seconds) for brasses, employed as an attention-getter for what follows. The Goossens fanfares, however, are more elaborate compositions, 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...
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