REPERTOIRE FOR WEDDINGS

PROCESSIONALS

A Wedding Processional, (Gerald Near)

Allegro Vivace from The Water Music Suite (G.F. Handel)
Air on a G String” from Suite No. 3 (J.S. Bach)
Air in F from The Water Music Suite (G.F. Handel)
Andante in F Major (Felix Mendelssohn)
Canon in D (Johann Pachelbel)
Chaconne in g minor (Couperin)
Chant Heroique (Gordon Young)
Finale Jubilante (Healey Willan)
Grazioso (Georg Philipp Telemann)
In Dir ist Freude (J.S. Bach)
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (J.S. Bach)
La Grace from Heroic Music (Georg Philipp Telemann)
La Majeste from Heroic Music (Georg Philipp Telemann)
Largo from Xerxes (G.F. Handel)
March (Henry Purcell)
March to St. Cecilia (G.F. Handel)
Music for a Ceremony (Alfred Fedak, Selah)
Overture from The Fireworks Music (G.F. Handel)
Prelude to a Te Deum (Jacques Charpentier)
Procesión Alegré (Gary Cornell)
Processional in C (Hal Hopson)
Rigaudon, (André Campra)
St. Anthony Chorale (Joseph Haydn/Johannes Brahms)
Sheep May Safely Graze (J.S. Bach)
Solemn Processional (Thomas Pavlechco)
Thaxted (Gustav Holst)
Trumpet Air (Paul Bryan)
Trumpet Tune in A (for the Queen Mother), (Richard Baker)
Trumpet Tune in C (David Johnson)
Trumpet Tune (Henry Purcell)
Trumpet Voluntary in D (John Stanley)
Trumpet Voluntary in D (Henry Purcell/Clarke)
Entrance Antiphon Psalm 20

May the Lord send you help from the holy place
and give you support from Sion.
May he grant you your hearts’ desire
and fulfill every one of your designs.

Entrance Antiphon Psalm 90

At dawn, O Lord, fill us with your merciful love,

And we shall exult and rejoice all our days.
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us
and upon the work of our hands.

Entrance Antiphon Psalm 145

I will bless you day after day, O Lord,

and praise your name forever and ever.
For you are kind to all
and compassionate to all your creatures.
 HYMNS OF PRAISE (ecumenical tunes, very familiar to many)

All Creatures of Our God and King (tune: Lasst uns Erfreuen)
Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee (tune: Hymn to Joy)
Let All Things Now Living (tune: Ash Grove)
Now Thank We All Our God (tune: Nun Danket)
O God, Beyond All Praising (tune: Thaxted)
Praise and Thanksgiving (tune: Bunessan)
Praise My Soul, the King of Heaven (tune: Lauda Anima)
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (tune: Lobe den Herren)

HYMNS SPECIFICALLY FOR MATRIMONY

God, in the Planning and Purpose of Life (tune: Slane)
God of Love, Embrace Your People (tune: Hymn to Joy)
God, Who Created Hearts to Love (tune: Lasst Uns Erfreuen) **also, hymn of praise
Hear Us Now, Our God and Father (tune: Hyfrydol)
Love is the Sunlight (tune: Bunessan)
O Father, All Creating (tune: Aurelia)
When Love is Found (tune: O Waly, Waly)

OTHER HYMN OPTIONS

Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (tune: Hyfrydol)
The Servant Song



HYMN or CANTICLE OF PRAISE to be sung after the Consent

Magnificat James J. Chepponis

Copyright, GIA Publications, James J. Chepponis, License #704956

David Haas

Copyright, GIA Publications, David Haas, License #704956

Owen Alstott

Copyright, OCP Publications, Owen Alstott, License #610503

With a choir, it is a great opportunity for a Choral Magnificat.

Psalm 128 (if not sung as the responsorial psalm), Like Olive Branches, Lucien Deiss
Psalm 145
Psalm 148
Psalm 150 Praise God in His Holy Dwelling
- Or a Hymn of Praise
RESPONSORIAL PSALMS (Letter-number denotes name in Together for Life booklet)

C-1 Psalm 33:12, 18, 20-21, 22 “The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord”

C-2 Psalm 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 “Taste and see the goodness of the Lord”

C-3 Psalm 103:1-2, 8, 13, 17-18a “The Lord is kind and merciful”

C-4 Psalm 112:1bc-2, 3-4, 5-7a, 7b-8, 9 “Blessed the man who greatly delights in the
Lord’s commands”

C-5 Psalm 128:1-2, 3, 4-5 “May the Lord bless and protect us all the days of our life.”

C-6 Psalm 145:8-9, 10 and 15, 17-18 “I will praise your name forever, my king and my God.”

C-7 Psalm 148:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-13a, 13c-14a “Let all praise the name the Lord”

ALLELUIA (Gospel Acclamation) (see Together for Life E-1 through E-4 for verses)

Alleluia, Horst Buchholz

Chant, Mode VI
Celtic Alleluia (Christopher Walker)
Festival Alleluia (James J. Chepponis)
Good News Acclamation (James J. Chepponis)

MASS SETTING (Holy, Holy, Holy; Memorial Acclamation, Lamb of God)

A Community Mass (Richard Proulx)

Heritage Mass (Owen Alstott)
Mass of Creation (Marty Haugen)
Mass for the City (Richard Proulx)

COMMUNION ANTIPHONS

I give you a new commandment, that you love one another

as I have loved you, says the Lord. (John 13:34) Mandatum

Christ loved the Church and handed himself over for her,
to present her as a holy and spotless bride for himself. (Ephesians 5:25)

I will bless the Lord at all times, praise of him is always in my mouth.
Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed the man who seeks refuge in him. (Psalm 34)
RECESSIONALS

A Rejoicing, (Alfred Fedak, Morning Star)

A Trumpet Minuet (Alfred Hollins)
Agincourt Hymn (John Dunstable)
Allegro Maestoso or Hornpipe from The Water Music, (G.F. Handel)
Chant Heroique (Gordon Young)
Concerto in G (Ernst/Bach)
Fanfare (Jacques Lemmens)
Festival Voluntary (Flor Peeters)
Festive Trumpet Tune (David German)
“Finale” from Symphonie Nr. 5 (Charles-Marie Widor)
Grand Choeur (Theodore Dubois)
In Dir ist Freude, (J.S. Bach)
La Rejouisasance (Handel)
Mandolin Concerto in C, (Antonio Vivaldi)
Marche, opus 46, no. 5 (Alexandre Guilmant)
Now Thank We All Our God, (J.S. Bach, arr. Gerald Near)
Now Thank We All Our God (Sigfrid Karg-Elert)
Poco Vivace (Hermann Schroeder)
Praise the Lord with Drums and Cymbals (Sigfrid Karg-Elert)
Prelude in G Major, BWV 541, (J.S. Bach)
Procesión Alegre, (Gary Cornell)
Processional for a Joyful Day, (Dale Wood)
Processional in D, (David Johnson)
Psalm XIX, (Benedetto Marcello)
Rigaudon (André Campra)
Rondeau from Sinfonies des Fanfares, (Jean Joseph Mouret)
Solemn Processional, (Thomas Pavlechco)
Processional in G, (John Stanley)
Toccata in G, (Theodore Dubois)
Trumpet Air, (Paul Bryan)
Trumpet Tune in A, (for the Queen Mother) (Richard Baker)
Trumpet Tune in D, (Henry Purcell)
Trumpet Voluntary in D, (Henry Purcell)
Trumpet Voluntary, (John Stanley)
Wedding Fanfare (Jeremy Bankson)
VOCAL SOLOS FOR THE PRELUDE OR WITHIN THE CEREMONY

A Blessing (James V. Marchionda, WLP)

A Blessing (Christopher Willcock, OCP)
A Gaelic Blessing (John Rutter)
A Nuptial Blessing (Vicki Klima, Michael Joncas, GIA)
Arise, My Love (Tony Alonso, GIA)
Alleluia, from Exultate Jubilate (W.A. Mozart)
An Irish Blessing, (Steven Warner, WLP)
An Old Irish Blessing (James Biery)
Ave Maria (Chant)
Ave Maria (Franz Schubert)
Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
Ave Verum Corpus (W.A.Mozart)
Ave Verum Corpus (Gustav Elgar)
Behold, Thus is the Man Blessed (William Ferris)
Blessing (Katie Moran Bart, Irish Blessing)
Bridal Prayer (Roger Copeland)
Come Down, O Love Divine (Ralph Vaughan Williams/Leavitt)
Covenant Hymn, (Gary Daigle, GIA)
Go, My Children, with My Blessing (John Behnke, Morning Star)
God, Beyond All Names (Bernadette Farrell, OCP)
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, (J.S. Bach)
“Laudate Dominum” from Vesperae Solennes de Confessore (W.A. Mozart)
Love Which Never Ends (Ernest Sands, OCP)
May Love Be Ours (Michael Joncas)
May the Lord Watch Over this House (Robert Powell)
My Heart Ever Faithful (J.S. Bach)
O Father All Creating (tune: Aurelia)
O God of Love (James Biery, Morning Star)
O God of Love (Eugene Butler)
Panis Angelicus (Cesar Franck)
Rise Up, My Love, My Fair One (Healey Willan)
Set Me as a Seal (Matt Maher, OCP)
Set Me as a Seal (Paul Melley, GIA)
Set Me as a Seal (Aaron Thompson, WLP)
Set Your Heart On the Higher Gifts, (Steven Warner)
Song for a Joyous Wedding (Bryan Jeffrey Leach)
Sound the Trumpet (Henry Purcell)
Spirit of God (Bernadette Farrell, OCP)
The Fire of Love, (Robert Kreutz, Morning Star)
The Garment of Love (Steven Warner)
The Greatest Gift (James Marchionda, WLP)
The Gift of Love (O Waly, Waly, arr. Hal Hopson)
The Peace of Christ (James Biery, Morning Star)
The Wedding Song, (Heinrich Schütz)
Thy Perfect Love (John Rutter)
Wedding Song (Heinrich Schütz)
 When Love is found (O Waly Waly, arr. Hal Hopson)
Where There is Love, Bist du bei Mir (J.S. Bach)
Wherever You Go (David Haas)
Whither Thou Goest (Flor Peeters) Song of Ruth

COLLECTIONS

VOICE

Blest are Those Who Love, $29.95, GIA, #9254

Liturgical Repertoire
Psalms
Gospel Acclamations
Gloria
Solos

Love One Another, $19.95, WLP, #017093, The Wedding Collection Songbook
Solos
Psalms

Timeless Music for Weddings and Special Occasions Hope Publishing

ORGAN

A Wedding Triptych John Ferguson Morning Star

Ceremonial Music for Organ Mercury Music
Four Marches for Organ Ernest Bloch Schirmer
Trumpet Tunes for Organ Morning Star
Marriage Augsburg Organ Library
Rigaudons Morning Star
The Classical Wedding for Solo Trumpet and Organ Hope Publishing
The Oxford Book of Wedding Music Oxford University Press
The Violinist’s Wedding Album Ludwig Music
The Trumpet Wedding Book C.J. Seip Music Publications
The Ultimate Organ Book for Weddings, Funerals and the Church Year
Hal Hopson Hope Publishing
Three Festal Preludes Robert Lau Harold Flammer
Two Trumpet Tunes William Rowan Hope Publishing
Trumpet March in D and Trumpet Recessional
William Rowan Morning Star
Wedding Music, Books 1,2,3 David Johnson Augsburg Fortress
Wedding Music for Manuals Charles Callahan Morning Star
Wedding Suite Charles Callahan Morning Star Music