Choice of music

We want your wedding music to have meaning for you, and part of our service is providing the help you need in selecting your music.

A couple will often select 3 or 4 special pieces for key moments in the ceremony: music for the entrance of the family, bridesmaids, and groomsmen; the processional for the bride; a musical interlude during the ceremony, if desired; and the recessional at the conclusion of the ceremony. Below are music clips of pieces that work well for these key moments. If you have favorite classical pieces, please let us know. Your favorites and other music by the same composers may well be in our repertoire. Also let us know your favorite style periods – Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, 20th/21st Century – so we can play music in our repertoire from those periods during the time before and after the ceremony.

We also play special requests outside the classical genre. We’ve included Celtic tunes in the clips below and visit our Popular Repertoire page for information about popular music past and current.

Music clips

Most of the pieces below can be played by either our trio or duo. For a duo we recommend a treble instrument (flute or violin) with a bass instrument (cello) for a more balanced sound.  If you are interested in a solo instrument, the pieces below that work well for solo have been asterisked. **

Renaissance music – For examples of this style click on the following tracks:

**1. All in a Garden Green – Playford

**2. The Wedding Night – Playford

Baroque music – includes the music of Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi and Pachelbel. For examples of this style click on the following tracks:

**3. Air on a G String – Bach

**4. The Poppy – Oswald

**5. Giga – Oswald

**6. Trumpet Voluntary – Clark

**7. Rondo – Mouret

**8. Largo – Vivaldi

9. Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 – Bach

**10. Pachelbel Canon

11. Pachelbel Canon

**12. La Rejouissance – Handel

**13. Hornpipe– Handel

Classical music – includes the music of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. For examples of this style click on the following tracks:

**14. Alleluia Jubilate – Mozart

15. Flute Quartet in A: first movement – Mozart

Celtic music and the music of the British Isles. For examples of this style click on the following tracks:

**16. The Bridal – Celtic traditional jig

**17. Carolan’s Air – Celtic traditional air

18. Drowsy Maggie – Celtic traditional reel

Popular favorites – ragtime, waltzes, tangos broadway musicals etc. For examples of this style click on the following tracks:

19. El Relicario 

20. Country Club – Joplin