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Wedding Music in   Newmarket   

Find wedding music groups who perform in  Newmarket  on our this web site of wedding music groups

See our  Newmarket  Wedding Music bands and ensembles

Below are a few of our wedding music groups across the UK. For wedding music in   Newmarket  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:  Frantisek Václav Míca (1694-1744; age ca. 50); Pietro Antonio Locatelli (1695-1764; age 68); Giuseppe Sammartini (1695-1750; age ca. 55); Johann Melchior Molter (1696-1765; age 68); Esprit Phillipe Chédeville (1696-1762; age ca. 66); Hans-Jürgen von Bose (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); James Guthrie (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); John Zorn (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); Jim Sande (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); Derek Hasted (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697-1763; age 65); Jan Welmers (1937-still alive 2003; age ca. 66); Rolf Riehm (1937-still alive 2003; age ca. 66); Philip Glass (1937-still alive 2003; age ca. 66); Zbigniew Bargielski (1937-still alive 2003; age ca. 66); David Del Tredici (1937-still alive 2003; age ca. 66); Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764; age 67); Joseph Rheinberger (1839-1901; age 62); Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893; age 53); Oskar Rieding (1840-1918; age ca. 78); Johan Severin Svendsen (1840-1911; age 70); Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904; age 62); Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773; age 76); François Francoeur (1698-1787; age 88); Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783; age 84); Michel Blavet (1700-1768; age 68); Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700-1775; age ca. 75); François Rébel (1701-1775; age 74); Terrence Patrick Dougherty (1937-still alive 2003; age ca. 66); Carl Tausig (1841-1871; age 29); Emmanuel Alexis Chabrier (1841-1894; age 53); William Copper (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); Randol Alan Bass (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); Joel Hoffman (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); Gordon Crosse (1937-still alive 2003; age ca. 66); Manuel Juarez (1937-still alive 2003; age ca. 66); Tormod Sæverud (1938-still alive 2003; age ca. 65); William Bolcom (1938-still alive 2003; age ca. 65); Johann Gottlieb Graun (1702-1771; age ca. 69); Georg Andreas Sorge (1703-1778; age ca. 75); Gioseffo Hectore Fiocco (1703-1741; age 38); Franklin Stover (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50);

 
 

Wedding Music - a quotation:  Newmarket   

Literature has many references about wedding music ensembles and their instruments. Here are some examples-

The significance of chamber music is that in dealing with the intimate it can attain to the ineffable. Chamber music conceives itself as a world of sound that has external boundaries but no internal ones. Hans Werner Henze (1926— Music and Politics, 1982,’Instrumental Composition’, 1963

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  Newmarket   

Wedding - With one of our Wedding Music bands you can be sure that your special day will be made even more special with music during the wedding ceremony, drinks reception or wedding breakfast.

You can hear samples of our wedding music online

Corporate & Parties - Our talented and adaptable Wedding Music bands have extensive repertoires enabling them to play appropriate music for a wide spectrum of events, ranging from formal concerts to hospitality and banquets

 
   Some examples of the repertoire of our wedding music bands   

WEDDING MUSIC - TYPICAL REPERTOIRE

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;