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Some popular choices for a Wedding Ceremony
Guests
assembling -
usually music with a calm feel
Some examples:
Air from the Water
Music Handel
Air on a G
String Bach
Cavatina (from the Deerhunter) Stanley
Myers
Gymnopedie No.
1 Eric
Satie
The Girl with the Flaxen
hair Debussy
Chaconne Jeremiah
Clarke
Prelude from Te Deum
Charpentier
Sonatina Dussek
Eleanor
Plunkett O’Carolan
For the
processional/bride’s entrance
Often
stately and dignified
Some examples:
Air (from Water Music)
Handel
All in a Garden Green - stately
Elizabethan English tune
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Handel
Bridal Chorus (Here comes the
Bride) Wagner
Canon in D
(very short version) Pachelbel
Chaconne
Jeremiah
Clarke
Gabriel’s Oboe
(from The Mission)
Lady Gethin O’Carolan
Trumpet Voluntary
(Prince of Denmark’s March)
Jeremiah Clarke
Trumpet Tune
Purcell
Trumpet Tune
John
Stanley
Variations on a Theme by Mozart
(short version)
Anon arr. Le Dentu
Music from Lord of the Rings
For the
recessional/ exit of bride and groom
Upbeat and joyful!
Some examples:
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Handel
Chaconne
Jeremiah
clarke
Harp Concerto (1st
Movement) Handel
Trumpet Voluntary
(Prince of Denmark’s march)
Jeremiah Clarke
Variations on a Theme by
Mozart Le Dentu
Wedding March
(The traditional recessional)
Mendelssohn
Carolan’s Concerto
O’Carolan
Mairi’s Wedding
Trad. Scottish
During the signing of the register
examples
of
tunes
I have played by request
Amazing Grace Church
weddings only)
Air from Derry (Danny Boy)
Ave Maria Schubert (Church
weddings only)
Breton
Tune
Canon in D (Complete)
Pachelbel
Castle on a Cloud
from Les Miserables
Cavatina from The
Deerhunter
Fields of Gold
Song Bird
You Raise Me Up
Greensleeves
Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring
Bach
(Church weddings only)
Misty
Moon River
Songs during the signing of the register
If requested, I can also sing during the
signing of the register, unaccompanied,
self-accompanied on the harp, or with
the organ.
Amazing Grace
(churchweddings)
Ave Maria
(churchweddings)
Fields of Gold
Lord of All Hopefulness
(churchweddings)
My Love is like a Red, Red
Rose
My Lagan Love (an Irish love song)
She moved through the fair (Our wedding
day)
Song Bird (Eva Cassidy/ All Angels)
The First Time Ever I saw your face
The Wind Beneath my Wings
You Raise Me Up
Other songs by request - if I know them, or
you are able to supply a recording and/or sheet music,
I will be happy if it’s possible, to learn a song for your
ceremony.
Background Music
Classical music
including
Air on a G String
J.S.Bach
Gavotte from French Suite no. 5
J.S.Bach
Prelude in C
J.S.Bach
Fur Elise
Beethoven
Mandolin Sonata
Beethoven
Mazurka no.2
Chopin
Chaconne
Jeremiah Clarke
Giga
Corelli
The Girl with the Flaxen
Hair Debussy
Sonatina
Dussek
Nimrod (from Enigma Variations)
Elgar
Canon in D (Pachelbel’s
Canon) Pachelbel
Air from the Water
Music
Handel
Arrival of the Queen of
Sheba Handel
Harp Concerto
Handel
Variations on a
Theme Mozart
(Arr. Le Dentu)
Cavatina (from the Deerhunter)
Stanley Myers
O Mio Babbino
Caro
Puccini
Hornpipe
Purcell
Gymnopedie No. 1
Eric
Satie
Traumerei
Schumann
Andante from Concerto for 2 mandolins
Vivaldi
Music from
The Four Seasons
Vivaldi
plus other less known but beautiful music
for by:-
Arne, Bochsa, Mozart, Nadermann, Scarlatti
and Dussek
Popular, Jazz standards, and music from
film and stage
Ain’t no
Sunshine
All I ask of you Love
Angel of Music
Angels
Annie’s Song
Anything Goes
Ashokan Farewell
As Time Goes By
Autumn Leaves
Beauty and the Beast
Black Orpheus
Blue Moon
Cavatina (from The Deer Hunter)
Don’t Cry for me Argentina
Eleanor Rigby
Everything I Do (I do it for you)
Every Time We Say Goodbye
Songs by Enya
Fields of Gold
Fly Me to the Moon
Gabriel’s Oboe
(The Mission)
Georgia
Greensleeves
Have I Told You Lately
Here, There and Everywhere (Beatles)
Hey Jude
I can’t help falling in love
I don’t know how to love him
I get a kick out of you
I got rhythm
Isn’t She Lovely
It had to be you
Lady in Red
Leaving on a Jet Plane
Let it Be
The Long and Winding Road
Love Changes Everything
Memory
Misty
Moon River
The Music of the Night
My Heart will Go On
(Titanic)
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
Norwegian Wood
Phantom of the Opera
Pie Jesu
Runaway
Send in the Clowns
Smoke gets in your Eyes
Somewhere over the rainbow
Songbird
Summertime
Sunshine on my Shoulders
Take 5
The way you look tonight
The First Time ever I saw your face
Think of Me
Unchained Melody
We’ve only just begun (Carpenters)
When I fall in love
When you say nothing at all
A Whole New World
Wonderful tonight
Wonderwall
You’ll Never Walk Alone
You’re Beautiful
Your Song (Elton John
Ask if your favourite is not here. If
there is a song you would particularly like included, it
may be possible for me to make an arrangement.
Traditional and Celtic Music
1. Irish
She moved through the Fair (Our Wedding
Day)
Lark in the Clear Air
My Lagan Love
Sally Gardens
Star of the County Down
Brian Boru’s March
The Butterfly
Carrickfergus
Chanter’s Tune
Cockles and Mussels
The Cuillin
Carolan’s Concerto (Mrs Power) (O’Carolan)
Carolan’s Farewell to Music (O’Carolan)
Danny Boy (Derry Air)
Eleanor Plunkett
Fear a
‘Bhata
Fields of Athenry
The Foggy Dew
Give me your hand
Hewlett (O’Carolan)
Inis Oirr
Lark in the Clear Air
The Last Rose of Summer
Morrison’s Jig
Monaghan Jig
Planxty Irwin (O’Carolan)
Princess Royal (O’Carolan)
The Quiet land of Erin
The Sean O’Dwyer
Spinning Wheel
Rose of Tralee
When Irish Eyes are Smiling
Miss Hamilton
Si Beag Si Mor (O’Carolan)
Women of Ireland
The Parting Glass
Gander in the Pratie Hole
And many more dance tunes, slow airs and
songs.
Also many other beautiful melodies by the
17/18th century Irish harper
Turlough O’Carolan
whose music combines Irishness with the fashionable
Baroque music of his day. Many of his tunes sit well in a
programme of classical style music, while others are dance
tunes
2. Scottish
including
Auld lang Syne
Isle of Aigas
Cock of the North
Loch Lomond
Ye Banks and Braes Mairi’s
Wedding
Ye Banks and Braes My
Love is like a Red, Red Rose
Ca’ the Yowes
Niel Gow’s Farewell to Whisky
Calliope House
Morning has Broken
Cock of the North Petronella
Eriskay love Lilt
Roslin Castle
Banks and Braes
Scotland the Brave
Mairi’s Wedding
Skye Boat Song
Dark
Island Will Ye Go
Lassie Go
Da Day Dawn
Flower of Scotland
Drunken piper
Gloomy Winter’s noo Awa’
Also songs by
Robert
Burns
and many other tunes and songs
3. Welsh Tunes
Including
All through the Night
The Ash Grove
Cader Idris (Sweet Jenny Jones)
David of the White Rock
Men of Harlech
Land of my Fathers
Merch Megan
Lady Owen’s Delight
The Bells of Aberdovey
The Rising of the Lark
Meillionen o Feirionnydd (The Clover of
Merionnydd)
Helar Scyfarnog (Hunting the Hare)
Cysga Di Fy Mhlentyn Tlwas (Sleep My Pretty
baby)
Y Bardd yn ei Awen (The Inspired Bard)
Breuddwyd Frenhines (The Queen’s Dream)
Y Crwtyn Llwd
Hen Ferch Etan
and many others
4.
Traditional English Tunes
including
Scarborough Fair
Greensleeves
The Water is Wide
and oher less well known but equally
beautiful songs and tunes including
Lovely
Joan Brigg Fair
When I was in my Prime
Bushes and Briars
All Things are quite
Silent Enrico
The Waterloo Dance
Searching for Lambs
The Banks of the Dee
A Blacksmith Courted Me
The Water is Wide
Christmas Music
Carols
Including
All Hail to the Days
The Angel Gabriel
Away in a Manger
Angels from the realms of Glory
Boars Head Carol
Coventry Carol
Ding Dong Merrily on High
Down in Yon Forest (Corpus Christi Carol)
First Nowell
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Good King Wenceslas
Green Growth the Holly
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Here We Come a Wassailing
Holly and the Ivy
In Dulci Jubilo
I Saw Three Ships
I Wonder as I Wander
In the Bleak Midwinter
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
Nos Galan (Deck the Halls)
O Come All Ye Faithful
Silent Night
Sussex Carol
This is the Truth Sent from above
Tomorrow Shall Be my Dancing Day
Unto Us a Boy is Born
Wassail, Wassail, All Over the Town
We Three Kings
Wexford Carol
While Shepherds Watched
Also other
popular Christmas music
Including
Christmas is Coming
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Jingle bells
Let it Snow
Little Drummer Boy
Rudolph the red Nosed Reindeer
The Twelve Days of Christmas
We wish you a Merry Christmas
White Christmas
Winter Wonderland
Auld Lang Syne
Period music
including:-
Medieval tunes
Tudor
-
music from the time of Henry Vlll and
Elizabeth
l
17thand 18th century
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