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Trumpet Voluntary

Pachabel Canon in D

Ava Maria

Do you mean for the prelude or for the actually processional? Chopin is great b/c its so technical. Handel has a water series and an air series that are great--very mellow and relaxing. Moonlight sonata is very pretty. What is the limitations? A lot of the pieces I liked were orchestra pieces and did not have an arrangement for just a piano or organ. Do you have just one instrument or a string quartet?

Vivaldi's Four Seasons is beautiful--Spring being the most common. Copeland has a spring arrangement called Appalachian Spring which is common but he also composed several symphonies.

Pachelbel wrote a lot more than just Canon in D that sound nothing like that. Romance by Mozart is one of my favorites.

Nutcracker has some beautiful pieces in it. Some are less recognized and therefore people wouldn't be expecting it to be at only a winter wedding.

I despise Jesu of man's desiring and Ode to Joy. They are the most overplayed wedding songs ever!

Also there are several wonderful wedding cds that have classical arrangements of movie soundtrack sounds. "When I Fall In Love" is one of my favorites. Often you hear the theme from Sleeping Beauty. The Theme from Ice Castles. How strict is your definition of "classical"? Broadway has some beautiful love songs too--there is a cd Best Broadway Love Songs that you could find on Amazon. Give them a listen and see if any of them suit.

Technically the term "classical" refers to the "classical era" (1750-1825 or so) and even would exclude the composers of the Baroque period--Pachelbel, Vivaldi, Handel and JS Bach among them. But it is cleaner, more differences in volume,

I assumed you weren't being that narrow, but meant more as a genre. However if you really just meant Classical era...Haydn, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven (though he partly bordered on Romantic). Early Romantic would give you softer tones--Schbert, Chopin, Wagner and of course every wedding's favorite Mendelssohn. Though a lot of operas were composed then as well--so did you intend to include vocal arrangements?

just avoid anything that makes many of us think of Looney Toons--thats where most of us under 30 got our musical repertoire. I'd buy some big cd compilations and just go through them with whoever is playing the music at your wedding and make sure they can perform whatever you would *like* to hear. Many of the arrangements are very difficult.

I had to make a CD of the music for our DJ because we had our ceremony at the reception hall. Here are some of my favorites, you can probably find these online to listen to...

Canon in D, Pachelbel

Air (from Water Music Suite), Handel

Prelude and Fugue in C, Bach

Cantata No.29 , Bach

Romance, Mozart

Winter, Largo or Spring Allegro (from The Four Seasons), Vivaldi

Also, this site is a good reference for classical wedding music..http://www.weddingmusic101.com/Wedding_Music_Overv...

Congrats on the upcoming marriage!

Pachelbel's Canon in DMajor.

Ave Maria

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

Two beautiful wedding songs are Canon in D and Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

Trumpet Voluntary is the most striking music I have ever heard for a processional, there is just nothing like it. The begining is beatiful for the bridesmaids walk and then when the trumpets come in and she starts her way down, it give you chills. I highly recommend.

My all-time favorite piece is The Pathetique Sonata (Adagio) from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. That's what I will march down the aisle to if I ever get married. It's simply beautiful.

Ava Maria......give it a listen..it's beautiful!!