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Author: Jeff Young
Date: 2009-04-17 01:34
Hello everyone! Wow, it's been a long time since I've posted here - 6 or 7 years, I'd say. I wonder how many people who were around then are still around now.
Anyway, after completing a degree in Music Ed, now I'm back and getting married! My fiancee has graciously agreed to allow me to pick the music for the ceremony. My clarinet professor from college has agreed to play for the wedding for prelude music. I've chosen to go with piccolo trumpet and organ for the ceremony music, but need some good suggestions for music that might work for the prelude.
There's the obvious possibilties:
Mozart Concerto, Mvt. II
Schumann Fantasy Pieces Mvt. I
Then some that would work, but I am not sure about:
Saint-Saens Sonata, Mvt. I
Brahms E-flat Sonata, Mvt. I
So what I'm asking you for are some other suggestions of things she can play. My main concerns are:
Length: Total amount of music shouldn't be anymore than 30 minutes
Key: Fiancee said (obviously) nothing in a minor key. :-)
Difficulty of Piano Part: I have a friend who has agreed to play and is quite good, but I don't want to make him have to practice a bunch to get this right. He is a band director and has plenty of other things to think about.
Have at it, and thanks in advance!
Jeff Young
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Author: clariniano
Date: 2009-04-17 01:39
Having done several weddings (including three I'm already booked for this summer, I created a list of some music that I have played at weddings.
Here it is:
Suitable Music for Weddings
1. Voi, che Sapete (from The Marriage of Figaro)/Mozart (Oxford University Press)
2. Il mio Tessoro (from the Marriage of Figaro)/Mozart (in Clarinet Solos, Vol 1, ed. Thea King)
3. Entracte to Act III (from Carmen)/Bizet (in Clarinet Solos, Vol 1, ed. Thea King)
4. Carol from Five Bagatelles/Finzi (Boosey & Hawkes)
5. Loch Lomond/Scotch Song (in Elementary Clarinet Solos)
6. On Wings of Song/Mendelssohn (in Elementary Clarinet Solos)
7. Largo from the New World Symphony/ Dvorak (in Elementary Clarinet Solos)
8. Long Long Ago/ Bayley (in Elementary Clarinet Solos)
9. Evening Star/ Wagner (in Elementary Clarinet Solos)
10. Beautiful Dreamer/Stephen Foster (in Elementary Clarinet Solos)
11. Rock of Ages/ Hastings (in Elementary Clarinet Solos)
12. Abide with me/Monk (in Elementary Clarinet Solos)
13. Vilia (from The Merry Widow)/ Lehar/(in Elementary Clarinet Solos)
14. Spirit Dance (from Orpheus)/Gluck (in Rubank Clarinet Solos, Easy Level)
15. Ave Maria/Franz Schubert
16. My Heart Ever Faithful/J.S. Bach (in Sacred Melodies for Clarinet Solo)
17. Austrian Hymn/ Franz Joseph Haydn
18. Theme from Symphony no. 1/ Johannes Brahms (in various collections)
19. Lohengrin Prelude to Act III/Richard Wagner
20. Wedding March from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream/ Mendelssohn (Derrick’s arrangement)
21. The Prince of Denmark’s March/ attr. Henry Purcell (in Trumpet Tunes from the English Baroque)
22. Trumpet Aire/ attr. Henry Purcell (in Trumpet Tunes from the English Baroque)
23. Triumphant March (from Aida)/Verdi (in Elementary Clarinet Solos)
Hope this helps!
Meri
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Author: mrn
Date: 2009-04-17 04:35
There's an arrangement of Pachelbel's Canon in D I used to play for weddings (came with interchangeable flute and Bb clarinet parts as well as piano accompaniment).
Jeff wrote:
<<Key: Fiancee said (obviously) nothing in a minor key. :-)>>
In that case, you'd have to rule out your Schumann Fantasy Piece, because it's in A minor.
Post Edited (2009-04-17 04:51)
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Author: mrn
Date: 2009-04-17 05:12
Another idea I just thought of would be mvt. 3 of Brahms' Sonata No. 1 (it's the F minor sonata, but mvt. 3 is in a major key).
Also, the middle movement of the Johann Stamitz clarinet concerto might fit in nicely with the Baroque stuff, because it has a sort of 18th century processional feel to it.
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Author: Nessie1
Date: 2009-04-17 08:25
From your original suggestions I think that the 1st movement of the Saint-Saens would be in the right kind of mood.
Vanessa.
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Author: oliver sudden
Date: 2009-04-17 08:35
I would be careful about using music from operas - the stories very seldom work out well for the happy pair or (let's face it) there wouldn't be an opera!
(Il mio tesoro is from Don Giovanni in fact. At least that's a reasonably straightforward declaration of love and fidelity. Although you might note that he's actually telling the other assembled characters to go and take care of his beloved while he gets on with the job of catching the bad guy. Which he never manages to do.
See?
And in Midsummer Night's Dream two of the couples are only together because they're on drugs. And in Lohengrin the husband sails off on a swan.)
Post Edited (2009-04-18 06:20)
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Author: Tom Puwalski
Date: 2009-04-18 03:34
1.Simon Tov .
2.Dodi li
3.Chasson Challe Mazel tov.
Why waste having a perfectly good clarinet on that other stuff! But you're probably not smashing a glass are you?
Tom Puwalski
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