Chamade
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In war, a chamade was a certain beat of a drum, or sound of a trumpet, which was addressed to the enemy as a kind of signal, to inform them of some proposition to be made to the commander; either to capitulate, to have leave to bury their dead, make a truce, etc. Gilles Ménage derives the word from the Italian chiamate, from Latin clamare, to call.
Marin Mersenne recorded both a chamade drum pattern,[1] and a chamade cavalry trumpet signal in his annotated copy of the Harmonie universelle.[2]
The word was taken from French into German from the late seventeenth century in the military phrase die Chamade schlagen, meaning 'to surrender', and became a geflügeltes Wort in the late nineteenth century.[3]
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[edit]- ↑ van der Miesen, Leendert (2025). "Conclusion". Marin Mersenne and the Study of Harmony. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 309–310. doi:10.2307/jj.26844242. ISBN 978-90-485-6414-9.
- ↑ Long, John H. (1971). Shakespeare's Use of Music: The Histories and Tragedies. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. pp. 6, 271. ISBN 0-8130-0311-3.
- ↑ Brunt, Richard James (1983). "Chamade". The Influence of the French Language on the German Vocabulary (1649–1735). Studia linguistica Germanica. Berlin and New York: Walter De Gruyter. p. 187. ISBN 3-11-008408-2.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). "Chamade". Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al. p. 189.
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