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2. “RIVER” BY LEON BRIDGES. Best lyrics: “Oh, I wanna come near and give ya/Every part of me”. Just jump ahead to the 1:30 mark to get to the good stuff.
After the ceremony, there is often a celebratory dance, or reception, where there may be musical entertainment such as a wedding singer, live wedding band, or DJ to play songs for the couple and guests. Siman Tov ("Good Tidings") is an all-purpose celebratory song in Jewish weddings.
Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" in C major, written in 1842, is one of the best known of the pieces from his suite of incidental music (Op. 61) to Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. It is one of the most frequently used wedding marches , generally being played on a church pipe organ .
A recessional hymn or closing hymn is a hymn placed at the end of a church service to close it. It is used commonly in the Catholic Church , the Seventh-day Adventist Church , and Anglican Church , an equivalent to the concluding voluntary , which is called a Recessional Voluntary, for example a Wedding Recessional.
"Recessional" contains five stanzas of six lines each. As a recessional is a hymn or piece of music that is sung or played at the end of a religious service, in some respects the title dictates the form of the poem, which is that of a traditional English hymn. Initially, Kipling had not intended to write a poem for the Jubilee. It was written ...
The Bridal Chorus, from Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin, used as wedding processional music; The "Wedding March", from Felix Mendelssohn's incidental works (Op. 61), used as wedding recessional music; Wedding Song, orchestral work by Elisabetta Brusa; Hochzeits-Lied (Wedding Song), by Kurt Weil from The Threepenny Opera
In the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, Pomp and Circumstance No. 4 served as the recessional. As Diana's veil was lifted and the couple bowed and curtsied to Queen Elizabeth II, the opening notes sounded and continued as they walked down the aisle of St Paul's Cathedral out to the portico and the waiting crowds. [24]
Set off against this insanity is the ironic counterpoint of Jenny's operatic aria about the beauty of a wedding day." [ 1 ] Commenting on Stephen Sondheim's 'Company' With The New York Philharmonic , The AV Club wrote "it'd be hard for anyone to sing the patter-iffic 'Getting Married Today' as fast as it's meant to be, even with months to work ...