This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens.
TUCKET
: a fanfare on a trumpet
Merriam-Webster:
Tucket can be found most notably in the stage directions of several of William Shakespeare’s plays. In King Lear, for example, a tucket sounds to alert the Earl of Gloucester of the arrival of the Duke of Cornwall (Act II, Scene i). The word tucket likely derives from the obsolete English verb tuk, meaning “to beat the drum” or “to sound the trumpet.” These days, the word fanfare itself refers to a sounding of trumpets made, for example, in celebration or to alert one of another’s arrival. The presence of fanfare might be the reason that tucket is rarely used in contemporary English.
“By this time the tucket was sounding cheerily in the morning, and from all sides Sir Daniel’s men poured into the main street and formed before the inn.” — Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, 1888
“… Leonard Bernstein came on to lead a thunderous performance of ‘Fanfare for the Common Man,’ a series of ear-blasting tuckets and bass-drum explosions that Mr. Copland wrote in 1943….” — Donal Henahan, The New York Times, 15 Nov. 1985
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Prizes awarded for creativity and participation
To be eligible for a prize, and to help motivate other people, post your creative project to Facebook or Instagram. You can also email it to me directly, and use the tags: #salchallenge @seattleartistleague #(word of the day)
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SAL Challenge 30: TUCKET
This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens.
TUCKET
: a fanfare on a trumpet
“By this time the tucket was sounding cheerily in the morning, and from all sides Sir Daniel’s men poured into the main street and formed before the inn.” — Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, 1888
“… Leonard Bernstein came on to lead a thunderous performance of ‘Fanfare for the Common Man,’ a series of ear-blasting tuckets and bass-drum explosions that Mr. Copland wrote in 1943….” — Donal Henahan, The New York Times, 15 Nov. 1985
Prizes awarded for creativity and participation
To be eligible for a prize, and to help motivate other people, post your creative project to Facebook or Instagram. You can also email it to me directly, and use the tags: #salchallenge @seattleartistleague #(word of the day)
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