Collage Music Wedding Music Repertoire

Collage Music Standard Repertoire for Collage Quartet
Flute/Saxophone, Guitar, Mandolin or Violin, and Bass or Cello (with optional vocals)

Recommended Classical Wedding Processionals

For Parents and/or Attendants:
• Jesu, joy of man's desiring - Bach
• Canon in D - Pachelbel
• Flower Duet - Delibes
• Berceuse from Dolly - Faure

For Bride:
• Canon in D - Pachelbel
• Jesu, joy of man’s desiring - Bach
• Trumpet Voluntary - Clarke
• Bridal Chorus - Wagner

Recommended Ceremony Interludes (for the unity candle, sand ceremony, etc)

• Air on the G String - Bach
• Arioso (Sinfonia from Cantata 156) - Bach
• Ave Maria - Schubert
• Gymnopedie No. 1 - Satie

Recommended Classical Recessionals

• Spring from the Four Seasons - Vivaldi
• Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream - Mendelssohn
• La Rejouissance (from Royal Fireworks Music) - Handel

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Last updated: 25 August 2010

CLASSICAL (BY TITLE)

Air from Watermusic - Handel
Air on the G String - Bach
Aria from Xerxes - Handel
Arioso (from Cantata No. 156) - Bach
Ave Maria - Schubert
Berceuse from Dolly - Faure
Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin - Wagner
Canon in D - Pachelbel
Chanson de Matin - Elgar
Clair de Lune - Debussy
Flower Duet - Delibes
Gymnopedie No. 1- Satie
Hornpipe from Watermusic - Handel
Jesu, joy of man’s desiring - Bach
La Rejouissance - Handel
Largo from Winter - Vivaldi
Meditation from Thais - Massenet
Minuet from Orpheus - Gluck
Morning (Peer Gynt) - Grieg
Musetta’s Waltz from La Boheme - Puccini
Nocturne, from String 4tet No. 2 - Borodin
Nocturne, Op. 9 No. 2 - Chopin
O, For The Wings Of A Dove-Mendelssohn
O Mio Babbino Caro - Puccini
On Wings of Song - Mendelssohn
One Hand, One Heart - Bernstein
Panis Angelicus - Franck
Pavane - Faure
Polovtsian Dances theme - Borodin
Romeo and Juliet theme - Tchaikovsky
Scheherezade - Rimsky-Korsakov
Spring from the Four Seasons - Vivaldi
The Swan - Saint-Saens
Trumpet Voluntary - Clarke
Wachet Auf (“Sleepers, Awake”) - Bach
Waltz from Coppelia - Delibes
Wedding March - Mendelssohn

JAZZ BALLADS FOR PRELUDE MUSIC (instrumental only; fingerstyle guitar)

Autumn in New York
All The Way
Embraceable You
Emily
Georgia
It’s Been A Long, Long Time
La Vie En Rose
Laura
Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing
My Romance
Poor Butterfly
(Somewhere) Over The Rainbow
Prelude To A Kiss
September Song
Someone To Watch Over Me
Skylark
Star Dust
(Theme From) A Summer Place
Tenderly

ACOUSTIC CONTEMPORARY POP SONGS - VOCALS
If you see a song here that you’d like performed as an instrumental, first check to see if it’s below on the instrumental list. If it’s there, we can do it as an instrumental. If not, we are happy to transcribe the melody and play it instrumentally for a $25 transcription fee.

All You Need Is Love - Beatles
Crazy - Patsy Cline
Crazy Love - Van Morrison
Dance Me To The End Of Love - Leonard Cohen/Madeleine Peyroux
Danny’s Song - Kenny Loggins/Anne Murray
Dream a Little Dream of Me -The Mamas & the Papas
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
Everything - Michael Buble
Fever - Peggy Lee
Green Eyes - Coldplay
Have I Told You Lately - Van Morrison
Happy Together - the Turtles
I Will - Beatles
In My Life - Beatles
I’ve Just Seen A Face - Beatles
La Vie En Rose - Edith Piaf (if vocal, lyrics are in French)
Look at Miss Ohio - Gillian Welch
Longer - Dan Fogelberg
Maybe I’m Amazed - Paul McCartney, as recorded by Jem
Something - Beatles
Son of a Preacher Man - D. Springfield
The Prayer - Carole Bayer Sager & David Foster
The Way I Am - Ingrid Michaelson
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
Today, Tomorrow, and Forever - Patsy Cline
Vision of Love - Mariah Carey
Walkin After Midnight - Patsy Cline
When You Say Nothing At All - Alison Krauss
You Are The Sunshine of My Life - Stevie Wonder
You Belong To Me - Patsy Cline

ACOUSTIC CONTEMPORARY POP SONGS - INSTRUMENTAL COVERS
If you see a song here that you’d like to have sung with vocals, first check to see if it’s already in the vocals list above. If it’s there, we’ll be happy to sing it. If not, contact us and ask us about it!

And I Love Her - Beatles
All My Loving - Beatles
All You Need Is Love - Beatles
At Last - Etta James
Bright Side of the Road - Van Morrison
Dream a Little Dream of Me -The Mamas & the Papas
Each Coming Night - Iron & Wine
Eight Days A Week - Beatles
Eight Miles Wide - Storm Large
Eleanor Rigby - Beatles
Forever - Ben Harper
Happy Together - the Turtles
Here Comes the Sun - Beatles
I Want To Hold Your Hand - Beatles
I Will - Beatles/Alison Krauss
In My Life - Beatles
La Vie En Rose - Edith Piaf
Love of a Lifetime - Firehouse
Michelle - Beatles
Moondance - Van Morrison
Norwegian Wood - Beatles
Penny Lane - Beatles
Rainbow Connection - as performed by Kermit
Reign Of Love - Coldplay
Say Yes - Elliott Smith
Something - Beatles
Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Stir it Up - Bob Marley
Storybook Love (from Princess Bride) - Mark Knopfler
The Way I Am - Ingrid Michaelson
Viva La Vida - Coldplay
Wildflowers - Tom Petty
When I’m 64 - Beatles
When You Say Nothing At All - Alison Krauss
Wouldn’t It Be Nice - Beach Boys
You Are The Sunshine of My Life - Stevie Wonder
You Make My Dreams (Come True) - Hall & Oates
You Raise Me Up - Josh Groban
You’re My Inspiration - Chicago

JAZZ/SWING ERA SONGS FOR COCKTAIL HOUR/RECEPTION
Most of these songs can be played with or without vocals (exceptions noted). Also, these are not necessarily the only jazz/swing tunes we can play (these are just the ones we like the best). We have access to hundreds more songs, so if you have favorites you’d like us to play, just ask! If you want us to sing something that’s not listed here, we may have to charge a fee ($25) to re-write the sheet music so that it’s in the correct key for our singer.

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
Afternoon in Paris (instrumental only)
Ain't Misbehavin'
All Of Me
All the Things You Are
Almost Like Being In Love
As Time Goes By
Autumn Leaves
Avalon
Baby Face
Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen
Besame Mucho
Black Orpheus (instrumental only)
Blue Bossa (instrumental only)
Blue Moon
Blue Skies
Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me
Dinah
Do Nothing Til You Hear From Me
Don’t Blame Me
Emaline
Embraceable You
Everything Happens To Me
Exactly Like You (instrumental only)
Fly Me To The Moon
Georgia (instrumental only)
Getting Some Fun Out Of Life
How High The Moon
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
I’m Beginning To See The Light
I'm Confessin' That I Love You
In A Sentimental Mood (instrumental only)
Isn’t It Romantic?
It Don't Mean A Thing (instrumental only)
It Had To Be You
La Vie En Rose (if vocal, French lyrics)
Let’s Fall In Love
(Our) Love Is Here To Stay
Love Me or Leave Me
Lullaby of Birdland
Moonglow
My Baby Just Cares For Me
My One And Only Love
My Romance
The Nearness Of You
Nice Work If You Can Get It (vocal only)
Poor Butterfly
The Shadow of Your Smile (inst. only)
Star Dust
Summer Samba (instrumental only)
Sunday Kind Of Love (vocal only)
These Foolish Things
They Can’t Take That Away From Me
The Way You Look Tonight
What Are You Doing New Years’ Eve? (vocal only)
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To

CELTIC/IRISH JIGS, REELS, AND AIRS:

A’ Da Ships Are Sailing - Shetland Reel
The Boys of Bluehill - Irish hornpipe
Brigid O’Malley - Irish Air
Carrickfergus - Irish folk song
Chief O’Neill’s Favorite - Irish hornpipe
The Coach Road To Sligo - Irish Jig
Cooley's - Irish Reel
The Cuckoo’s Nest - Irish/Scottish/English hornpipe
Danny Boy/Londonderry Air/Air from County Derry - Irish trad.
Drowsy Maggie - Irish Reel
Drummond Castle - Scottish Jig
The Earl’s Chair - Irish Reel
Eel In The Sink - Irish Reel
Farewell To Whiskey - Scottish Air
The Flowers of Edinburgh - Scottish Reel
The Flowing Tide - Irish hornpipe
Gaelic Melody - Scottish air
Gilderoy - Scottish hornpipe
Harvest Home - Irish hornpipe
Haste To The Wedding - Irish jig
Hewlett - Turlough O'Carolan
Julia Delaney's - Irish Reel
Lilting Banshee - Irish jig
Mairi's Wedding - Scottish traditional
Miss McLeod's - Irish Reel
The Mist Covered Mountains of Home - Scottish Air
The Morning Star - Irish reel
Morgan Magan - Turlough O’Carolan
The Musical Priest - Irish Reel
The New Rigged Ship - Scottish jig
Paddy on the Turnpike - Irish reel
Planxty Irwin - Turlough O'Carolan
The Queen of May - Irish hornpipe
The Road To Lisdoonvarna - Irish Jig
Sheebeg and Sheemore - Turlough O'Carolan
Swinging On A Gate - Irish Reel
The Wild Geese - Irish air
Willafjord - Shetland Reel
The Wind That Shakes The Barley - Irish reel