Tucket

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.



... 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