The following
is a list of favorite music selections from many brides and grooms.
These are only suggestions and are provided within a general wedding
framework to help you get started in the planning process. As
you will notice, some of the pieces fit into more than one category.
Due to the size of our music library, we chose to list only the
favorites. Please contact us at 970-482-1647
for a more extensive list and/or special requests.
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of our Music Selections have sound clips attached. Click
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PRELUDE
Before the ceremony begins, there can be fifteen to thirty minutes
of music for seating guests, lighting candles, rolling out the
carpet, and seating the grandparents and the mothers. Music that
is graceful and light helps create just the right mood for this
special day.
Air from Water
Music Suite (Handel) Air on the G String (Bach)
Brandenburg #2 (Bach) Brandenburg #3 (Bach)
Brandenburg #5 (Bach) Selections from The Four Season's
(Vivaldi) Canon in D Major (Pachelbel) Jesus, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach) Many Miles Across The Sea (Day)
Ode to Joy (Beethoven) Passacaile (Handel)
Romance in G (Beethoven)
Sheep May Safely Graze (Bach)
Sunrise, Sunset (Bock) Trumpet Voluntary (Purcell/Clark)
Palladio (Jenkins)
The processional begins after the mother of the bride is seated
and the wedding party begins their walk down the aisle. If there
are many people in the wedding party, a quiet or more subdued
piece may be used for them while a bigger, more celebrative piece
may be played for the bride's entrance.
Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin (Wagner)-Traditional Canon in D Major (Pachelbel) Selections from The Water Music
(Handel)
Sheep May Safely Graze (Bach)
Royal Fireworks Music (Handel)
Trumpet Tune in C (Purcell) Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach)
The Four Seasons (Spring) (Vivaldi)
Ode to Joy (Beethoven)
Wedding March (Mendelssohn)--Traditional
Rondeau (Theme from Masterpiece Theatre) (Mouret)
Wedding Processional from "The Sound of Music" (Rodgers) Trumpet Voluntary in D (Clarke)
Music can create and maintain the mood throughout the ceremony
reflecting the seriousness of the vows as well as the joy of the
event and the excitement of the bride and groom and their family
and friends. If your ceremony is being held in a house of worship
or other spiritual center, please ask the officiant performing
your ceremony if the music you wish to have performed is acceptable.
Many officiants have a list of what music is appropriate for each
part of the ceremony.
Sheep May Safely Graze - Bach
Greensleeves
Finlandia - Grieg Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Bach
The Lord's Prayer
Winter from the Four Seasons - Vivaldi
The Wedding Song - Kenny G
Ave Maria - any of the well-known ones
Amazing Grace Canon in D - Pachelbel
Wedding Prayer - Dunlap
Wedding Song (There Is Love)
The Wedding Song (Paul Stuckey) One Hand, One Heart (West Side Story-Bernstein)
The big moment! The bride and groom have kissed, are pronounced
husband and wife, and turn to walk up the aisle as a married couple.
This calls for festive and celebratory music. The music should
reflect the excitement and joy as they walk up the aisle together.
Wedding
March - Mendelssohn (traditional) Spring or Autumn from the Four Seasons
- Vivaldi
Air on the G String from Orchestral Suite No. 3 - Bach
Hornpipe - from Water Music Suite - Handel La Rejouissance from Royal Fireworks
Music - Handel
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from Solomon - Handel Simple Gifts / Lord of the Dance
(Shaker Hymn)
Ode to Joy - Beethoven
Brandenburg #2 (Bach) Brandenburg #3 (Bach)
Brandenburg #5 (Bach)
Rondeau (Theme from Masterpiece Theatre) (Mouret)
Eine Kleine Nachtmusic (Mozart)
String Quartets..................................Mozart
String Quartets..................................Haydn
Variety is our specialty. In addition to different movements from
some of the most dynamic classical string quartets, we also perform
favorites from Broadway musicals, waltzes, jazz favorites, ballads
and pop tunes.
Please contact us at 970-482-1647 for a more extensive list.
All
I Ask of You (Webber)
Appalachia Waltz (Mark O'Connor)
Ashokan Farewell (Ungar)
Blue Danube Waltzes (Strauss)
Bavarian Waltz (Matesky)
Blue Tango (Anderson) Country Club Rag (Joplin)
The Entertainer (Joplin)
Paragon Rag (Joplin)
Maria (Bernstein)
Over The Rainbow (Harburg)
Annie's Song (Denver)
Edelweiss (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
Simple Gifts (Shaker Hymn)
Somewhere in Time (Barry)
Unchained Melody (North)
Sabbath Prayer (Bock)
Richard Rodgers Waltzes (Naughtin)
