How about including a little birthday music to go with your wedding ceremony music? One of the world’s greatest composers, Johann Sebastian Bach, turned 325 this year on March 21.
The music world is celebrating! Why not join in the fun and include at least one piece by Bach in your wedding to help the world celebrate? At the very least, it’ll be a chance for you to show off with a piece of classical music trivia!
If you’re still looking for music for your wedding ceremony, whether it’s a song during the wedding, or a piece for a recessional, processional, postlude or prelude, Bach’s music might just be the perfect choice. [Read the full article…]
Here are even more ideas for church wedding songs.
Do any of these situations apply to you?
- You’re having a hard time finding a song for your church wedding
- You need a good wedding song that’s appropriate for a church and just don’t have time to search high and low for it
- You’d like an easier-to-sing but still very nice sounding song [Read the full article…]
Are you having trouble finding good wedding songs?
For some reason, picking wedding songs for use during the ceremony seems to be one of the more difficult musical choices a bride gets to make. When asked for recommendations, I can also find this to be challenging, and as a musician, I have access to a lot of music.
Why so difficult? (And then I have music ideas for you!) [Read the full article…]
Click below to hear interview with Balint Karosi, composer of the featured song.
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Do you need a different kind of wedding song? An uncommon piece? A song that doesn’t scream “wedding music”? A piece with sophistication? A piece that just sounds wonderfully different?
I have such a song for you. It is simultaneously old and new. The music was written for a wedding in 2007. The text was written for a wedding in 1398.
The piece is Est Amor by Hungarian composer and musician Bálint Karosi. He wrote the piece for the wedding of his friend. [Read the full article…]
Sometimes you just need an nice but easy song for your wedding. Sometimes, you’re stuck and need a good song idea.
“Love, In Christ” by the husband and wife team of Ralph and Dorothy Schultz has a great melody that’s easy for the singer and accompanist, is flexible enough to work with different instruments, is perfect for church use, and has a nice story behind it. [Read the full article…]
How about including a little birthday music to go with your wedding ceremony music? One of the world’s greatest composers, Johann Sebastian Bach, turned 325 this year on March 21.
