With Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums in print, and Cold War Cadence: A Military Musician's Berlin Memoir, 1988 – 1991 soon to be, Dr. Gleason has now returned to the researching and writing of what was going to be the initial book, but in fact will be Sound the Trumpet's prequel: Cavalry Trumpeters, Kettledrummers, and Mounted Bands: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century.
​Image depicting Hajj, the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca by Abu Muhammad al Qasim ibn Ali al-Hariri (1054 – 1122), illustrated by Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti, and published in 1237. Courtesy of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Kettledrummers and trumpeters, shown leading Count Ladislaw Bercheny’s French hussar regiment, c. 1752 – 1763. Late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century, after the original anonymous painting in the Cottereau collection. Oil on canvas, 66 x 152 cm. 5857; Ec116. © Musée de l'Armée/Dist. RMN-Grand
7th Queen's Own Hussars, Harry Payne
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​​​​The publication of the book is several years away. Please see "Cavalry Trumpet and Kettledrum Practice from the Time of the Celts and Romans to the Renaissance" published in the 2008 issue of the Galpin Society Journal for a preview.