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Notes for lines 0-1017 ed. Bernice W. Kliman
| 615 The kettle drumme, and trumpet, thus bray out | 1.4.11 |
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614 615 1942 3736 1604 Dekker
Dekker
615 kettle drumme, and trumpet] Dekker (ed. Bowers, 2:274, apud Jenkins, ed. 1982), in “The Magnificent Entertainment: Giuen to King Iames, Queene Anne his wife, and Henry Frederick the prince vpon the day of His Maiesties tryumphant passage . . . through . . . London. . . , wrote: ‘to delight the Queen with her own country music, nine trumpets and a kettle drum did very sprightly and actively sound the Danish march.’”
-1658 Cleveland
Cleveland
615 kettle drumme] Cleveland (apud Douce, 1807): “. . . Fuscara, ‘Tuning his draughts with drowsy hums, As Danes carouse by kettle-drums’ 8vo. 1682, p. 3.”
1746 Upton
Upton
615 bray out] Upton (1746, p. 23): “Arms on armor clashing bray’d horrible discord, VI, 209. à gr. [Greek Here] clamare. Hom. II. ´µ. 396. [GREEK], sonitum dedere arma. II ø´. 387. [GREEK] remugiit verò lata tellus.Shakesp. in [Jn. 3.1.303. (1236)] Braying trumpets. In Hamlet [615]. The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out The triumph of his pledge. Spencer, B.4.c.4.f.48. Then shrilling trumpets loudly ’gan to bray.”
1784 Davies
Davies See n. 614
615 Davies (1784, 3:14): “* The kettle-drums and trumpets, which are ranged in a large place before the palace, proclaim aloud the very minute when the kind sits down to table. Molesworth.”
1787 Gent. Mag.
White
615 kettle drumme] T. H. W [White] (Gent. Mag. 57 [1787]:479), writing of Ant. 2.7.97 (1446), “ ‘It ripens towards it. Strike the vessels, Here to Caesar.’ Vessels is probably a kettle-drum, which were beaten when the health of a person of eminence was drunk; immediately after, we have, ‘make battery to our ears with the loud music.’ They are called kettles in Hamlet. ‘Give me the cups; And let the kettle to the trumpet speak.’
“Johnson’s explanation [of Ant. 2.7.97 (1446)], ‘try whether the casks sound as empty,’ degrades this feast of the lords of the whole world into a rustic revel.”
1793- mSteevens
mSteevens as in v1803
615 The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out] Steevens (1793-) : “Thus in Chapman’s version of the 5th Iliad: ‘—he laid out such a throat As if nine or ten thousand men had brayd out all their breaths In one confusion.’”
1803 v1803
v1803
615 bray out] Steevens (ed. 1803): “—thus brayout—]] So, in Chapman’s version of the 5th Iliad: ‘—he laid out such a throat As if nine or ten thousand men had brayd out all their breaths In one confusion.’ Steevens.”
1807 Douce
Douce
615 kettle drumme] Douce (1807, 2:205): “Thus Cleaveland in his Fuscara, or The bee errant, ‘Tuning his draughts with drowsie hums As Danes carowse by kettle-drums.’ ”
John Cleveland, 1613-1658
1813 v1813
v1813 = v1803
615 bray out]
1819 cald1
cald1 = Douce without attribution +
615 kettle drumme] Cleveland (apud Caldecott, 1819): “. . . Fuscara, ‘Tuning his draughts with drowsy hums, As Danes carouse by kettle-drums’ 8vo. 1682, p. 3.”
cald1 = Upton + in magenta
615 bray out] Caldecott (ed. 1819): “Bray, is harshly sound out. [then Jn. ref as in Upton]. Blanch.
1821 v1821
v1821 = v1813
615 bray out]
1832 cald2
cald2 = cald1
615 kettle drumme]
1904 ver
ver
615 kettle drumme] Herford (apud Verity , ed. 1904): “This instrument was then characteristic of Denmark.”
1929 trav
trav ≈ ver +
615 kettle drumme]
Travers (ed. 1929): “a touch of still more definite local colour . . . .”
1930 Kirby
Kirby
615 kettle drumme] Kirby (Mudic and Letters 9:34 ff, apud Jenkins, ed. 1982). See also Kirby’s book The Kettle-Drums, a Book for Composers, Conductors and Kettle-Drummers. London: Oxford UP. 74pp.
1939 kit2
kit2: Douce on Cleveland
615 kettle drumme] Kittredge (ed. 1939): "Douce cites Cleveland, Fuscara (Works, ed. 1687, p. 3): ’As Danes Carowze by Kettle-drums.’ "
1947 cln2
cln2
615 bray out] Rylands (ed. 1947): "celebrate."
1982 ard2
ard2 ≈ trav without attribution; Cleveland ≈ cald without attribution; Dekker; Dollerup, pp. 195-7; Kirby; xref
615 kettle drumme] Jenkins (ed. 1982): Though the instrument was known in 16th-century England, it provides local color because it was well-known as an accompaniment to Danish celebrations. “(cf. Cleveland, Fuscara, ’As Danes carouse by kettle-drums’). ’Like a Denmark drummer’ became a common phrase. On the entry of James I and Anne of Denmark into London in 1603, ’to delight the Queen with her own country music, nine trumpets and a kettle drum, did very sprightly and actively sound the Danish march’ (Dekker, Magnificent Entertainment, Dramatic Works, ed. Bowers, 2: 274). Cf. 1942 S.D. See Dollerup, pp. 195-7, and for an account of the kettle-drum and its history, P. R. Kirby in Music and Letters, Ix, 34 ff.”
1987 oxf4
oxf4
615 kettle . . . trumpet] Hibbard (ed. 1987): "instruments closely associated with the Danish march. Dekker’s The Magnificent Entertainment, written to celebrate the entry of James I and his queen, Anne of Denmark, into the City of London on 15 March 1604, describes a scaffold, erected in the Poultry, ‘where . . . to delight the Queen with her own country music, nine trumpets and a kettle-drum did very sprightly and actively sound the Danish march’ (711-14)."
1989 OED
OED
615 kettle] OED for sb. 5, lists only Ham. 3736 for the obsolete use of kettle for kettledrum.
1999 Dessen&Thomson
Dessen&Thomson
615 kettle drumme, and trumpet] See Dessen & Thomson(1999) note for 1942.
2000 Edelman
Edelman
615 kettle] Edelman (2000), discussing march, says that the drum was the instrument used. Danes, however, also used kettles.“
Edelman
615 drumme] Edelman (2000) says that the drum and fife “musical instruments long associated with war; like all instruments, also synecdoche for those who play them.”
2002 Srigley
Srigley
615 kettle drumme] Srigley (2002, p. 173) says that, as recorded in John Stowe, Annales (London, 1605, pp. 1434-37), William Segar, in 1603, in the church in Copenhagen where Christian IV’s son was to be baptized, heard kettle drums, which, according to John Nichols (The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities of King James the First [London, 1828] 2:65),.were a novelty in England when Christian visited England with them in 1606.
2006 ard3q2
ard3q2: RP
615 kettle drumme, and trumpet] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “instruments associated with Denmark. As [Richard Proudfoot] points out, these would be safer and cheaper than the repeated discharge of pieces.”
ard3q2
615 bray out] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “make a loud, harsh noise. The choice of verb and its associations with animals, especially donkeys, is not complimentary to the instruments.”