Perkins Chapel Wedding Music

Welcome to the Perkins Chapel wedding music page. This is the place to listen to streaming audio files of select music that can be requested for your wedding. Although designed specifically to assist those who are celebrating their wedding at Perkins Chapel, it is hoped that this page might be of use to anyone involved in planning music for a wedding. The pieces contained on this website are amongst the most frequently-requested; however, I plan to add other pieces to this page as time allows.

Blessings,

Benjamin Kolodziej,
Assistant Chapel Organist,
Perkins Chapel, SMU
bkolodzi@smu.edu

1. Processionals/Recessional: Most people select the following for their wedding: one processional for the mothers/families, a second processional for the attendants, a third for the bride and one recessional for everyone. This is the basic music requirement for most weddings.

Solos: If you have a soloist, some common places for them to sing are as follows: a) at the end of the prelude immediately prior to the seating of the mothers; b) immediately after the seating of the mothers; c) after the presentation of the bride, d) between the readings and e) after the vows/exchange of rings. You are certainly not limited to this but these are simply very common arrangements.

2. Prelude/Postlude: Prelude music as the guests are seated is played before the ceremony. You may suggest some music if you would like, but it is not necessary. For most ceremonies, a postlude will be played at the end of the ceremony after the recessional (after the attendants and family have left.) Again, it is not necessary that you select this.

3. Length: During the actual ceremony, processionals and recessionals will be shortened or lengthened in order to accommodate the appropriate liturgical action. Selections from this website should not and need not be made simply because of their length. Some of the pieces recorded here have been shortened.

Perkins Chapel Users Only: Please visit the official Perkins Chapel wedding information website at http://www.smu.edu/theology/chapel/wedding.html for the complete rules and regulations regarding use of the chapel. Everyone using the chapel, including florists and photographers, is responsible to uphold these guidelines.

Click here for Additional Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

Note : Press the green button in the last column to begin a musical selection

Wedding Processionals / Recessionals - Organ and Trumpet (Note : All pieces may be played on organ alone)
Selection	Description	Who	Audio Format	Type	Press Button to Start
"Prince of Denmark's March" (or "Trumpet Voluntary"), Jeremiah Clarke	Processional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ Fred Bernhardt, Trumpet	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"Rondeau", Jean-Jacques Mouret	Processional or Recessional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ Fred Bernhardt, Trumpet	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"Trumpet Voluntary", John Stanley	Processional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ Fred Bernhardt, Trumpet	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"Trumpet Tune", Henry Purcell	Processional or Recessional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ Fred Bernhardt, Trumpet	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"Prelude to a Te Deum", Marc-Antoine Charpentier	Processional or Recessional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ Fred Bernhardt, Trumpet	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
Wedding Processionals / Recessionals - Organ
"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring", JS Bach	Processional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"Canon in D", Johann Pachelbel	Processional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"Trumpet Tune", Georg Telemann	Processional or Recessional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"Hornpipe" from Water Music, Georg Friedrich Handel	Processional or Recessional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"The Heavens Declare", Benedetto Marcello	Processional or Recessional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"Musique Royale", Michel-Richard Delalande	Processional or Recessional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"Now Thank We All Our God", JS Bach	Recessional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"Rigaudon", Andre Campra	Processional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"Trumpet Tune ", David Johnson	Processional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
Prelude on "Rhosymedre", Ralph Vaughn Williams	Processional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"Ode to Joy", Ludwig van Beethoven	Processional or Recessional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"St Anthony Chorale", Johannes Brahms	Processional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"Air", JS Bach	Processional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"Prelude in C major", BWV 547	Recessional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"Christ is made the sure foundation", Henry Purcell	Processional or Recessional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"Andante" from Sonata #6, Felix Mendelssohn	Processional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"I vow to thee, my country", traditional; arr. Holst	Processional or Recessional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
Improvisation on "Slane"	Processional or Recessional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"How lovely shines the Morningstar", Johann Pachelbel	Processional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"Air" from Water Music	Processional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
Gift of Love, Traditional	Instrumental	Bethany Konz, Flute Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"Sheep May Safely Graze", JS Bach	Instrumental	Bethany Konz, Flute Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"Arioso", JS Bach	Processional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ	MP3	11 kbps VBR 16 kHz Mono
"Largo", from Xerxes GF Handel	Processional	Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ	MP3	11 kbps VBR 16 kHz Mono
Wedding Vocal Solos
"Ave Maria", Franz Schubert	Vocal Solo	Kacy Cook, mezzo-soprano	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"Ave Maria", Charles Gounod	Vocal Solo	Kacy Cook, mezzo-soprano	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"The Lord's Prayer ", Alfred Hay Malotte	Vocal Solo	Tiffany Roberts, soprano	MP3	11 kbps VBR 16 kHz Mono
"Love Divine, All Loves Excelling", Charles Wesley	Vocal Solo	Kacy Cook, mezzo-soprano	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"Kyrie Eleison", John Leavitt	Vocal Solo	Kacy Cook, mezzo-soprano	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"A Wedding Benediction", Austin Lovelace	Vocal Solo	Kacy Cook, mezzo-soprano	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"Wedding Song ", Stookey	Vocal Solo	Kacy Cook, mezzo-soprano	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"Jesus, Stand Beside Them", Austin Lovelace	Vocal Solo	Kacy Cook, mezzo-soprano	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"O Perfect Love ", Dorothy Gurney	Vocal Solo	Kacy Cook, mezzo-soprano	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono
"O Loving Father (Panis Angelicus)", Cesar Franck	Vocal Solo	Kacy Cook, mezzo-soprano	Windows Media Audio File	20 kbps 22 kHz Mono

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