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The Tusch (from French touche , "stop") is a musical signal that is usually played chorally by several instruments, originally by a trumpet ensemble. The word has been used in the southern German language area since 1745.

The flourish indicates, for example, the end of a successful trick in the circus or the punch line of a joke in a variety show or carnival session . A flourish gives the audience the commitment to applause and causes the honorees to compliment , such as a bow. The flourish has an order and structure function: In a carnival session, the repeated playing of a triple flourish usually helps to end the raging of the audience, and therefore helps the meeting to proceed quickly.

The simplest flourishes are sustained single notes or major chords, sometimes repeated and combined with drum rolls and similar drum effects . If Tuschs also contain melodic elements, which are mostly based on fourths , the limit to fanfare , which can be a small piece of music , is exceeded.

If Tuschs are played before and after pieces of music, care must be taken to ensure that the key and motif are unified with them so that they do not appear awkward. A well-known example of a flourish at the beginning of the song is the Soviet (now Russian) national anthem .

A special case of flourish are musical accents in film music ( sting ) that indicate an emotion, clarify the end of a scene or emphasize a punch line. These can be pure drum sounds. A characteristic motif, which is often described onomatopoeically as Ba-Dum Tsch ; here is for a roll that only a snare and then - Tomtom , a descending -Schlag or two tom-shocks may crash cymbal struck.

literature

• Riemann music dictionary . Material part. 12th edition. Schott, Mainz 1967, p. 1002.
• Gerlinde Haid : Tusch. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .

Web links

Wiktionary: Tusch  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry Tusch on duden.de.
2. ↑ Reto Parolari: Circus Music in Theory and Practice, Edition Swiss Music, Winterthur 2005, p. 63, ISBN 3-9501993-1-4 .
3. ^ BBC Glossary of common media terms , accessed Sept. 17, 2015.