trumpet call

“The Bahn Frei Polka” by Eduard Strauss—with the trumpet call to the racetrack starting gate that blasted as a preamble—would jolt him awake if he’d begun to nod off.

“It was after the trumpet call, followed by the roar of ‘Charge,’” Hilton said.

The philosopher David Chalmers, one of the subject’s foremost scholars, describes consciousness as a “felt quality” — consciousness is what it feels like to see the sun set or hear a trumpet call or smell the rain on a spring morning.

“It was after the trumpet call, followed by the roar of ‘Charge!’”

“This Rotunda is a trumpet call to glory,” the speaker said, his voice echoing off the marble walls.