Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/To The Colors and Retreat

To The Colors and Retreat

To the Colors is a bugle call that renders honor to a nation. It is commonly used when there isn't a band to play the national anthem.

Retreat - Bugle call

Retreat is a bugle call used to signal the end of the official day.

I know these two calls from colors at boy scout camp. I grouped them together because in my experience To the Color is used for morning colors, raising the flag, and Retreat is used for evening colors, lowering the flag. They balance each other out.

Nominate and support. Guerillero | My Talk 05:32, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment (Really, a bit of trivia:) In the US Army usage I remember, for morning flag-raising, the sequence goes: Reveille, morning gun, To the Color. The hoist commences at the first note of To the Color, with the flag reaching the top of its staff or pole at the last note. Similarly, Retreat is sounded before the evening gun, followed by To the Color as the flag is lowered, with similar synchronization of call and hoist. __ Just plain Bill (talk) 15:01, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, well if they pass, then they will be promoted separately, at least for my opinion. You may want to wiki-link some of the names there, since lots of people who sift through featured sounds want to learn more about them, just like the rest of Wikipedia :). And I believe Retreat is the same as Sunset? --haha169 (talk) 18:34, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

From what I have read sunset has a few differences from Retreat.--Guerillero | My Talk 04:20, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I was just asking because there is an article on Sunset, but I couldn't find one on Retreat. Anyway, Support, sounds good. --haha169 (talk) 02:15, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Would you like me to renominate these individually?--Guerillero | My Talk 04:20, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Together is fine, particularly for short works like this, performed by the same group or person. You could reasonably throw in a few more bugle calls, actually, since they are so short. That said, you might want to break up that massive Brandenburg nomination. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 14:51, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Clear EV and the recording and performance quality are more than ample. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 21:28, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Well played. Major Bloodnok (talk) 21:37, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

~~Promote all Sfan00 IMG (talk) 22:43, 12 March 2011 (UTC)~~[reply]

I'm going to do a little research to try and find the dates, as soon as I have a little time. Otherwise we have to put them into undateable, which is awkward. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 17:53, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Reveille is already in undateable. Perhaps we should make a section specifically for bugle calls, or a section for short tunes? A lot of these types of things are undateable. An example is the Can-can.--haha169 (talk) 05:13, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - The Can-Can is easily datable. It's from Orpheus in the Underworld. I sang it once. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 13:53, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted ToTheColor.ogg and Promoted Retreat.ogg as two separate files (as opposed to one file in two parts.) Sven Manguard Wha? 02:39, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]