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.  Users of Perkins Chapel are encouraged to read all the sections below, particularly "Getting Started" and the "FAQs" ("frequently asked questions.")  When you have completed your selections, you may submit them here. 

Blessings,                                   

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

 

Getting Started :

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 for 30 minutes 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

To submit your finalized choices, you may click here.

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Streaming Audio File Library

The audio files on this site are in a streaming audio format. These formats can be played by a wide variety of audio player software, including Windows Media Player, and MusicMatch Jukebox. Windows Media Player is standard in newer versions of Windows, and Internet Explorer.

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
 

"Toccata," Theodore Dubois

 

 Recessional Benjamin Kolodziej, Organ MP3     
"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 ",
Albert 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
 

To submit your finalized choices, you may click here.

 

Photo Gallery

For your planning purposes, digital pictures of various parts of the chapel can be seen by clicking on the following link -
Click here to see the photo gallery

 

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