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Marches (faster pieces)

Slower / Smooth Pieces

Contemporary (includes popular songs and movie themes)

Vocal Accompaniment


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Marches

Faster tempo or "march sounding" pieces that can be used for processionals and recessional.

Quar Trio Duo Composer Title Recommended for
  • Fam-

    Family enterence (parents and grandparents)
  • Attd-

    Attendents' processional (groom, officiant, groomsmen, bridesmaids)
  • Bride-

    Bride's processional
  • Int-

    Interlude (middle of ceremony)
  • Reces-

    Recessional (end of ceremony)
Fam Attd Bride Int Reces
    Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3      
    Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5      
Beethoven Ode to Joy (from Symphony No. 9)
Campra Rigaudon  
Charpentier Te Deum  
Clarke Trumpet Voluntary (a.k.a. Prince of Denmark)    
  Handel Coro Minuet (from Water Music Suite in D)       
    Handel Entrance of the Queen of Sheba      
Handel Hornpipe (from Water Music Suite in D)      
  Handel La Rejoussance (from Royal Fireworks Music)      
    Handel Overture from Royal Fireworks (#1) Slower march portion    
    Handel Overture from Royal Fireworks (#2) Fast portion      
Mendelssohn Wedding March
Mouret Rondeau         
Mozart Eine Kleine Nachtmusik         
Purcell Trumpet Tune      
  Tchaikovsky Waltz from Sleeping Beauty         
    Vivaldi Gloria      
  Vivaldi Spring Concerto: Allegro  
Wagner Bridal Chorus ("Here comes the bride")

 

Slower / Smooth Pieces

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Slow to medium tempo (speed) pieces that are good for processionals or an interlude (e.g. unity candle lighting).

Quar Trio Duo Composer Title Recommended for
Fam Attd Bride Int Reces
Bach, J.S. Air (from Suite No. 3)
  Bach, J.S. Bist du bei mir  ("You are with me")         
Bach, J.S. Concerto for Two Violins: Largo   
Bach, J.S. Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring   
Bach, J.S. Sheep May Safely Graze      
  Bach, J.S. Sleepers, Awake      
  Bach-Gounod Ave Maria
    Barry, John Somewhere in Time 
(from film Somewhere in Time)
   
  Beethoven Grande Sonata Pathetique: Adagio   
Boardman Gigue  ("Celtic Baroque" style)      
  Corelli Pastorale (from Concerto Grosso No. 8)        
    Debussy Claire de Lune         
  Enya Only Time            
    Foster For Just a Moment (Love theme from St. Elmo's Fire)  
  Foster / Sager The Prayer (from Quest for Camelot)         
Handel Air  (from Water Music Suite in F)         
Handel Largo from Xerxes         
  Handel Pastoral Symphony  (from The Messiah)         
Quar Trio Duo     Fam Attd Bride Int Reces
Horner The Ludlows (from film Legends of the Fall)
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  Horner The Wedding (from Legends of the Fall)
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    Malotte The Lord's Prayer         
    Massenet Meditation from Thais          
    Mothersbaugh Mothersbaugh's Canon    
  O'Connor Appalachia Waltz      
Pachelbel Canon in D major
    Puccini Musetta's Waltz (from La Boheme)      
Puccini O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicci)        
    Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini - Variation 18      
  Raff Cavatina              
  Rota A Time for Us 
(Love theme from Romeo & Juliet 1968)
     
    Saint-Saens The Swan      
Schubert Ave Maria      
    Silvestri Feather Theme  (main title theme from Forrest Gump)  
    traditional
Amazing Grace (with variations)              
    Vangelis Hymne   
    Vivaldi Spring Concerto - 3rd movement  
Vivaldi Winter Concerto: Largo     
    Wine / Sager Groovy Kind of Love    

Contemporary / Popular

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For clients who want to add a "modern" or more casual flavor to their ceremony.   These may also be performed during the prelude (while guests are being seated).

You can see full list of our contemporary pieces on the Contempary and Popular and Music from the Movies pages.

Quar Trio Title Composer / Artist Recommended for
Fam Attd Bride Int Reces
All I Ask of You  
(from Phantom of the Opera)
Andrew Lloyd Webber          
All You Need is Love The Beatles      
Appalachia Waltz Mark O'Connor       
  At Last Etta James        
  Beauty and the Beast Alan Menken      
listen   Book of Days Enya    
  Can't Help Falling in Love Elvis Presley         
  Come What May  (from Moulin Rouge) Ewan McGregor & Nicole Kidman        
  Emma   (main title theme, 1996) Rachel Portman
  Feather Theme  (main title theme from Forrest Gump) Alan Silvestri  
  Flightless Bird (from Twilight)
Iron and Wine
 
  For Just a Moment (Love theme from St. Elmo's Fire) David Foster  
  From This Moment Shania Twain           
  Gone with the Wind (main title theme) Max Steiner         
  Groovy Kind of Love Phil Collins      
Grow Old with Me  
 
John Lennon         
  Here Comes the Sun
 
The Beatles         
  Hymne Vangelis   
I Gotta Feeling Black Eyed Peas
  It Had to Be You  (jazz standard) Frank Sinatra / Tony Bennett         
  La Bamba Richie Valens         
The Ludlows (from Legends of the Fall)
James Horner   
  Mothersbaugh's Canon  (from The Royal Tenanbaums) Mark Mothersbaugh    
  Moon River (from Breakfast at Tiffany's) Henry Mancini      
  Norwegian Wood The Beatles      
One Hand, One Heart   (from Westside Story) Leonard Bernstein        
Only Time
 
Enya         
Over the Rainbow Judy Garland      
The Prayer (from Quest for Camelot)
Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli         
  The Rose Bette Midler      
    Someone to Watch Over Me George Gershwin              
  Somewhere in Time 
(from film Somewhere in Time)
John Barry      
  This Will Be Natalie Cole        
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A Thousand Years
from Twilight: Breaking Dawn

Christina Perri      
  A Time for Us 
(Love theme from Romeo & Juliet 1968)
Nino Rota    
  Unchained Melody  (from film Ghost) Righteous Brothers        
The Wedding (from Legends of the Fall)
James Horner  
Whatever Oasis
  When I'm 64 The Beatles         
Wouldn't It Be Nice Beach Boys          
Yellow Coldplay      
You Raise Me Up Secret Garden / Josh Groban      

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