FirstPeace

PeaceBugle is an international music and film project by Steve Chettle. Its objective is to promote and support international peace. It is a response to 20th and 21st century war, civil conflict and genocide.

The brief was for a new bugle call with a duration of one minute (to mirror one-minute silences).

FirstPeace is a call to peace, a practical tool to be used to promote peace and a musical symbol and emblem of and for peace activities. It is also a core part of the PeaceBugle Audio-Visual Installation.

Military bugle calls are purely notes that specify particular actions such as reveille, parade, mess call etc.

FirstPeace contains a complex narrative within its notation. It sounds distinctive and memorable and acts as a foil for the Last Post bugle call.

There are three sections:

First section: Elegiac - sorrow and lamentation (within this there is a bar rest which is silence).

Second section: The word PEACE converted to Morse Code and then played as notes. The letter appear above the stave. The Morse Code is P • – – • E • A • – C – • – • E •

Third section: The British Army bugle call for ceasefire. It is in the 1914 War Office booklet for Bugle calls which was still operational without change in 1918. This bugle call is the one that was played

at 11am on 11th November 1918 to tell the British troops to stop fighting.

FirstPeace can be used at peace vigils & rallies and to mark particular events such as International Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27th, Remembrance Day on November 11th. FirstPeace is planned to be played at 11am on 21st September as part of the UN International Day of Peace.

www.internationaldayofpeace.org

When playing FirstPeace we ask that you use it solely for the pursuit and support of peace.

Steve Chettle, PeaceBugle