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Wedding Music in   Derby   

See and hear wedding music options in  Derby  on this UK wide website of wedding music groups

See our  Derby  Wedding Music bands and ensembles

A small selection of our wedding music groups across the UK is shown below. To find wedding music in   Derby  choose your county from the drop down box to see the wedding music groups that play in your area.

 
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Wedding music and composers

Wedding music for civil and for church weddings is sometimes different, in that the music used in civil ceremonies must not have religeous connotations. Examples of composers are:  Andre Mathieu (1929-1968; age ca. 39); PDQ Bach (1807-1742; age ca. -65); Edward P. Mascari (1949-still alive 2003; age ca. 54); Fred Frith (1949-still alive 2003; age ca. 54); Javier Busto (1949-still alive 2003; age ca. 54); Carson Kievman (1949-still alive 2003; age ca. 54); Alcides Lanza (1929-still alive 2003; age ca. 74); Frédéric Devreese (1929-still alive 2003; age ca. 74); Albert Biales (1929-still alive 2003; age ca. 74); Pierre Guédron (1565-1620; age ca. 55); Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613; age 47); Thomas Campion (1567-1620; age 53); Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643; age 76); Michel Waisvisz (1949-still alive 2003; age ca. 54); Juan Pedro Esnaola (1808-1878; age ca. 70); Henri Cohen (1808-1880; age ca. 72); Franz Schubert (2) (1808-1878; age ca. 70); Sebastián de Yradier|Iradier (1809-1865; age ca. 56); Adriano Banchieri (1568-1634; age ca. 66); Gian Paolo Cima (1570-1620; age ca. 50); John Farmer (1570-1591; age ca. 21); Pierre Max Dubois (1930-1995; age ca. 65); Cristóbal Halffter (1930-still alive 2003; age ca. 73); Jacqueline Fontyn (1930-still alive 2003; age ca. 73); Nancy Van de Vate (1930-still alive 2003; age ca. 73); Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847; age 38); Adolf Fredrik Lindblad (1809-1864; age ca. 55); Félicien-César David (1810-1876; age 66); Robert Vinson (1949-still alive 2003; age ca. 54); John Newell (1949-still alive 2003; age ca. 54); Wolfgang Bottenberg (1930-still alive 2003; age ca. 73); Michael Praetorius (1571-1621; age 50); Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656; age ca. 84); Alfonso Ferrabosco (1575-1628; age ca. 53); Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623; age 47); Melchior Franck (1579-1639; age ca. 60); Thomas Ford (1580-1648; age ca. 68); Geoffrey Poole (1949-still alive 2003; age ca. 54); Leonard Lehrman (1949-still alive 2003; age ca. 54); Stephen Paulus (1949-still alive 2003; age ca. 54); Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876; age 65); Ole Bull (1810-1880; age 70);

 
 

Wedding Music - a quotation:  Derby   

Wedding Music groups and similar ensembles have been mentioned in novels and plays. Here are some quotations:-

‘E’en little things can yield a perfect pleasure, e’en little things can be supremely dear’—so run the lines of a Tuscan song beautifully set to music by Hugo Wolf. And of nothing is that so true as the ‘little things’ of chamber music. One finds in that field no necessary correlation between size and quality. Homer Ulrich (1906—

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  Derby   

Weddings - Create the perfect ambience for the wedding ceremony, drinks reception and wedding breakfast with one of our Wedding Music groups

You can hear samples of our wedding music online

Corporate & Parties - Our highly versatile Wedding Music musicians also play for a wide spectrum of non wedding events, ranging from formal concerts to hospitality and banquets

 
   Here is some typical repertoire of our wedding music groups   

REPERTOIRE EXAMPLES FOR WEDDING MUSIC

Boccherini - Minuet ; Rossini - Barber of Seville Overture; Purcell - Chacony in G minor; Sullivan - The Mikado; Borodin - First Polovtsian Dance; Paragon Rag - Scott Joplin; Scott Joplin - The Entertainer ; Heliotrope Bouquet - Scott Joplin; Maple Leaf Rag - Scott Joplin; Scott Joplin's New Rag - Scott Joplin; Capua - O Sole Mio; Elgar - Salut d'Amour ; Debussy - Clair de Lune; Mozart - Voi Che Sapette from The Marriage of Figaro; Delibes - Flower Duet from Lakmé; Ravel – Bolero; Purcell - Two Rondeaux from Abdelazar and the Fairy Queen; The Teddy Bears' Picnic - J Bratton; Suite from Oklahoma & The Sound of Music - Rogers & Hammerstein; Pennies from Heaven - A Johnson; Anything Goes - Cole Porter; Let's Do It - Cole Porter; Saint-Saens - The Swan from Carnival of the Animals; Dvorak - Humoresque ; Puccini - O Mio Babbino Caro; Handel - Arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Dvorak - Slavonic Dance No. VIII; Mozart - Rondo Alla Turca; Strauss - Blue Danube Waltz; The Folks Who Live on the Hill - Jerome Kern; My Funny Valentine - Richard Rogers; Suite from South Pacific & The King & I - Rogers & Hammerstein; Makin' Whoopee – Donaldson; When I Fall In Love; Elgar - Chanson de Matin; Handel - Departure of the Queen of Sheba; Quartet for flute, violin, viola, cello K285 Mozart; Elgar - Chanson de Nuit; Gossec - Tambourin ; Mozart - Eine Kleine Nacht Musik ; Greensleeves; Love Changes Everything - from Aspects of Love;