Composition: Drum Taps (St. George Tucker, Tui)

Title Drum Taps
Alternative title Cantata for men's voices and instruments
Creators Tui St. George Tucker (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist)
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Instrumentation male chorus, 3 clarinets, percussion, cello, double bass and piano
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Composed 1973
First published 2006
Dedication
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Composition types Secular choruses
Language English
Period Modern
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Metronome Key Measures
Lo, Victress on the Peaks
Delicate Cluster
Adieu to a Soldier
Spirit Whose Work Is Done
Look Down Fair Moon
By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame
Reconciliation
Hush’d be the Camps Today

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6. By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame ·