Traditional Music
Each year, the programme of music at the National Ceremony remains the same, following a programme finalised in 1930:
- Rule, Britannia! by Thomas Arne
- Heart of Oak by William Boyce
- The Minstrel Boy by Thomas Moore
- Men of Harlech
- The Skye Boat Song
- Isle of Beauty by Thomas Haynes Bayly
- David of the White Rock
- Oft in the Stilly Night by John Stevenson
- Flowers of the Forest
- Nimrod from the Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar
- Dido's lament by Henry Purcell
- O Valiant Hearts by Charles Harris
- Solemn Melody by Walford Davies
- Last Post – a bugle call
- Beethoven's Funeral March No. 1, by Johann Heinrich Walch
- O God, Our Help in Ages Past – words by Isaac Watts, music by William Croft
- Reveille – a bugle call
- God Save The Queen
Other pieces of music are then played during the unofficial wreath laying and the march past of the veterans, starting with Trumpet Voluntary and followed by It's A Long Way To Tipperary, the marching song of the Connaught Rangers, a famous British Army Irish Regiment of long ago.
Read more about this topic: Remembrance Sunday
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