fanfare
fanfare.Not a term used by Shakespeare; the various signals indicated in his plays for trumpets, drums, etc. may be divided into the military (alarums, charge, parley, retreat) and the ceremonial (flourish, sennet, tucket). The music for these in Shakespeare's plays does not survive, though an idea of some military signals may be gained from battaglia pieces of the period, such as Byrd's The Battell.
Jeremy Barlow