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 unknown, but we learn from the induction to the Malcontent that it was 'not received' by the audience at the Globe in 1604. There was also, of course, the final 'jig'. For an overture, the public theatres seem to have employed nothing beyond three soundings of a trumpet, the last of which was the signal for the prologue to begin. Probably the musical element tended to increase. A special music-room perhaps existed already at the Swan in 1611, and, if so, may have been, as it was in the later theatres, in the upper part of the tire-house.

a drum, and a trebel viall, a basse viall, a bandore, a sytteren j chyme of bells iij tymbrells  j sack-bute'.]*
 * [Footnote: inventories of 1598 (H. P. 115, 116, 118) include 'iij trumpettes and