A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1550-1580
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Modulatour, n. [e.m.E. modulato(u)r (c 1500), L. modulātor.] ? One who leads others in the ‘modulation’ or correct timing of music during its performance. —c1550-c1580 Art of Music 24 b.
Tactus … is ane … mocioun or ane chop witht the hand of the preceptour dressand the sang mensuraly that the modulatouris … failye nocht in the perfyt mensuring of the quantaties of all noittis and pausis in equall voces dewydit c1550-c1580 Ib. 36 b.
Wpone the quhilkis nottis discant and countering may be plesandly be soung at the arbitry of the modulatouris as thay best pleis thairapon till accord c1550-c1580 Ib. 37.