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Beat Retreat
PRELIMINARIES
The Drummers Call
The traditional bugle call was included in all early ceremonial parades. Buglers march on to start the parade with Drum beatings and Bugle calls.
The Band Call
Traditionally sounded on all occasions when the band was required to play.
The Fall In
A bugle call still used on formal ceremonial occasions immediately prior to the parade taking up formation to receive the Inspecting Officer.
Sarie Marais Toonsetting arr Dunn
The Massed Bands march on t o Horse Guards Parade.
Royal Salute
The National Anthem
Royal Occasion Cole
A Fanfare is sounded on the Silver Trumpets of the Royal Marines School of Music.
DISPLAY BY THE MASSED BANDS IN HONOUR OF THE CORPS
Per Mare Per Terran Rose
The Captain General Dunn
Preobrakensky Donajowsky arr Dunn
The Massed Bands troop in slow time, then break into quick time , divide into three bands and move into position for Beating Retreat.
By Land and Sea Alford
The Massed Bands break into quick time and position themselves for the formal ceremony of Beating Retreat
HM Jollies
BEATING RETREAT
The Massed bugles start the ceremony with the bugle call of the Royal Marines.
A Combined bugle and hand fanfare which leads directly into Beating the Retreat.
Bolero Ravel
The British Grenadiers Traditional
The Corps of Drums rejoin the band
DISPLAY BY THE MASSED BANDS IN HONOUR OF THE ROYAL NAVY
Under The White Ensign Dunn
The Bands, rejoined by the Corps of Drums divide into four, reform into two and finally one band for the Finale.
On the Quarterdeck Alford
Viscount Nelson Zehle
Heart of Oak Boyce arr Dunn
FINALE
State Occasion Farnon
Abide With Me arr Neville
An arrangement of the evening hymm is followed by the focal point of the ceremony;
Sunset by the Silver Bugles accompanied by the bands with the Corps of Drum in Rear.
Sunset Green
To Comrades Sleeping Young
Rule Britannia Arne arr Sargent / Arnold
The National Athem arr Jacobs
A Life on the Ocean Wave Russell arr Alford
The Regimental March is played as the Massed Bands countermarch into position for the March back to Wellington Barracks.
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