Sunset (bugle call)

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"Sunset (bugle call)"
Notation of the bugle call.
GenreBugle call
Published1932 (1932)

"Sunset", also known as the "Retreat Call", is a bugle call played in

bugle or equivalently on a trumpet
without moving the valves.

The call is regularly heard performed in an arrangement for full military band by Captain A.C. Green (1888–1974), who was Director of the Royal Naval School of Music's Junior Wing on the Isle of Man.[2]

The arrangement was composed aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth in response to Admiral Fisher's desire for a "spectacular show" and was first performed in 1932 by the Massed Bands and Bugles of the Mediterranean Fleet.[1] The Sunset call is now a regular part of the Royal Marines' "Beat the Retreat" ceremony, the call's melody also gives its name to "Sunset Parades" given in commemoration of former military conflicts.[2] It is traditional to stand for the performance of the piece.

Trumpet & Bugle Calls for the British Army marks this call for Royal Artillery units only. The call would then be sounded on an E♭ Cavalry Trumpet.

References

  1. ^ a b Royal Marines Band - "beating retreat" royalmarinesbands.co.uk, Retrieved 18 July 2010
  2. ^ a b A.C. Green biography, seayourhistory.org.uk, Retrieved 18 July 2010

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