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A dictionary of old English music & musical instruments 1923, 1923
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1IV, 2). The derivation of the term would be through Old Northern French Touket, and Old French Touchet, a blow, from a Teutonic source (cf. German, Tusch, a flourish of brass). The Tucket may, originally, have been a drum-signal, as the Teutonic word from which it had its name had the sense of "to touch" or "to beat," and especially so since the noun Tuck meant a drum-beat (cf. the Italian Toccata, touched; i.e. music touched or struck on a keyboard, as distinct from Sonata, sounded, and Cantata, sung).
3TUT: In lute-playing the Tut was the sudden deadening of a note just played, by damping the vibration of the string with the next finger.
5TYMBYR. v. TIMBREL.
7UT. v. ARETINIAN SYLLABLES and GAMUT.
9VIAL, VIALL. v. VIOLS.
11VIOLS: A family of bowed stringed instruments that became exceedingly popular in England. Indeed, they became so acclimatised in this country, that their foreign origin, at one period at any rate, was almost lost sight of. The influence they exercised on the history of English instrumental music was very great, and in this class of composition the English use of the Viols even affected continental art. In its commonest form the Viol was used in three sizes and pitches—Treble, Tenor, and Bass—and combined as mentioned in the article CHEST OF VIOLS. The instruments of this family are distinguished from those of the modern violin species by having a flat back, sloping shoulders, C-shaped sound-holes, a tail-piece fixed on a notched pin, and generally six strings. Their tone was soft and sympathetic, eminently suited to the music of the period, and especially well-fitted to be an accompaniment for voices—a use in which the Viols might be profitably revived to-day. The Treble-Viol was the first of the family to disappear before the irresistible invasion of the Violin. Its six strings were tuned in fourths with an interpolated third, as follows:
13showing a tremendous range when compared with the modern violin. Possibly the gravity of the bass-string used on the
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