Taps
The originals are not known to the SecondHandSongs editors. If you have more information, contact us.
- Music written by
- Daniel Butterfield
- Composition date
- 1862
- Comments
- aka "Butterfield's Lullaby". Bugle call which is a variation of an earlier bugle call known as the "Scott Tattoo", which was used in the U.S. from 1835 until 1860, and was arranged in its present form by the Union Army Brigadier General Daniel Butterfield. Butterfield's bugler, Oliver Wilcox Norton, of East Springfield, Pennsylvania, was the first to sound the new call. Within months "Taps" was used by both Union and Confederate forces. It was officially recognized by the United States Army in 1874, when it was formally named "Taps".
- Licensing
- Request a synchronization license