Here's a sampling of documents regarding field music and bugling.
Includes the original music for: Casey's Infantry Bugle and Drum calls, Hunt's Artillery Calls, and Cooke's Cavalry calls .
NonBugler Series ($6 per tape, $8 per manual, $10 per CD...roughly $2 postage).
BLUE: Infantry Bugle Signals for Non-Buglers:
Pocket Manual of how and when to do the calls. Articles by Dom Dal Bello and
Robert Braun. Excerpts from Kautz' and the Musicology of Taps.
Tape 1: 20 Must Know Calls, and Camp Duty Calls (Parade, Guard Mount)
Tape 2: Skirmish and Manuever by the bugle
YELLOW: Cavalry Bugle Signals for Non-Buglers:
Pocket Manual of how and when to do the calls. Written by Richard Lynch of the
1st New Hampshire Cavalry. Right out of Poinsett's Cavalry Tactics Manual.
Tape 1: 15 Must know Cavalry Bugle Signals; As Foragers by the Bugle
RED: Artillery Bugle Signals for Non-Buglers:
Pocket Manual of how and when to do the calls. Written by Chas. Lee, Washington
Artillery and Michael Millette of Taylor's Battery. Right out of Hunt's
Artillery Manual.
Tape 1: 15 Must know Artillery Bugle Signals; Manuever by the Bugle
Arlington Taps Information
Important Documents (most of these files use WinZip 7.0 for compression)
- Chickamauga call schedule: in MS Word format
- Functional Bugler Specification w/ Pictures: 1 Mb file in MS Word format (Zipped)
- Functional Bugler Specification: 55 Kb file in MS Word format
- Chickamauga 1999 Federal Unit Preludes MS Word format
- Hardee's Infantry General Calls: in MIDI (complete)
- Hardee's Infantry Skirmisher Calls: in MIDI (complete)
- Poinsett's Cavalry Bugle Signals: in MIDI (complete)
- Poinsett's Cavalry Skirmisher Calls: in MIDI (complete)
- Mexican Cavalry Call "El Deguello": in MIDI
- Vaas/Nevins School of the Bugle: 10 Tunes": in MIDI
- Braiding a bugle cord": The loop method of braiding, in PDF
- Infantry Ditties: the Infantry manuals for non-buglers...one with the MIDI files one without.
- Cavalry Ditties: the cavalry manuals for non-buglers...one with the MIDI calls, one without.
- G135 Infantry Schedule: suggested call schedule framework
- G135 Cav Schedule: Final Draft of the Federal Cavalry Schedule and Call schedule