They wake us up by playing reveille at zero-five thirty; by zero-five thirty-five, we're expected to be dressed in PT clothes and outside, ready for a morning run or PT.

Another flashback to 1978: Shortly before 10 A.M. the casino lounge band, the Dixielanders, played reveille.

A Ghurka bugler played "Last Post" and reveille, and the assembled crowd was silent for two minutes to remember the dead.

At 06300 hours last Sunday, the visitors to the New Jersey were woken by a recorded bugle playing reveille.

The first cabin to gather at morning and evening lineup gets to raise or lower the flag to a scratchy record playing reveille or "Taps."

"Go around playing reveille for all your little mall-elves?"

The drum and bugle corps popular in the 1930's have died out, many Boy Scout troops no longer teach the instrument, and even the military uses recordings to play reveille on bases.

The title is piercing and jaunty, something like a bugle playing reveille at camp, with no close relation to the sounds of the coming day, but both jolting us and enticing us awake to engage with them.

Even his morning calls attain some additional flavor: "And now the company jumps when he plays reveille."

Louis plays taps, reveille, and mess call, and composes a love song for Serena.