Tune Req: Processional - Irish Music

Subject: Processional - Irish Music
From: GUEST,Lynne
Date: 02 Mar 00 - 07:12 PM

I am looking for suggestions for a processional (for the walk down that longggggg aisle) for my wedding. I love Irish music. Does anyone have any good suggestions? Thanks!

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Processional - Irish Music
From: alison
Date: 02 Mar 00 - 07:38 PM

March past of Brian Boru..... played on a harp is beautiful....

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Processional - Irish Music
From: alison
Date: 02 Mar 00 - 08:10 PM

or

"give me your hand" a beautiful waltz tune....

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Processional - Irish Music
From: GUEST,Lynne
Date: 02 Mar 00 - 08:41 PM

I will probably just be using a DJ to play it - if you know of any CDs that I could purchase with something appropriate it would be really helpful. thanks for the suggestions so far...

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Processional - Irish Music
From: alison
Date: 03 Mar 00 - 01:58 AM

I've put both of the tunes I mentioned at Mudcat MIDIs so you can listen and have a rough idea. There are some beautiful Celtic CDs around.... take yourself off to your local record shop and ask to listen to some over headphones...

do you even know what sort of rhythm you want to walk to?? slow march, waltz???

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Processional - Irish Music
From: GUEST,Lynne
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 05:54 PM

Thanks Alison! I love "Give me your hand" that's a wonderful choice. I'm sure I have a CD with that on as well. I had read on a list of songs (that I didn't bookmark unfortunately!!) that there is a traditional Irish processional for weddings. Is anyone familiar with it?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Processional - Irish Music
From: Tchaikovsky
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 01:40 PM

I'm a music director at a church and a harpist and I always thought that "Fanny Power" by O'Carolan would make a nice processional. I've never actually played it at a wedding but I thought of it because I played it in a concert once and a woman came up to me and said that she was going to use it in her wedding. Good Luck! Matthew Adams

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Processional - Irish Music
From: GUEST,Dean
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 05:50 PM

Try looking in a hymnal for "The King of Love My Shepherd Is". We performed this as a wedding processional last year. A recorded version is on Brentwood CD-5341J, title Celtic Hymns. Regards, Dean

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Processional - Irish Music
From: Barry T
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 07:01 PM

Good suggestion, Dean. I found the lyrics and midi here.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Processional - Irish Music
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 09:40 PM

I just found this link to an Online Anglican Hymnal. I think it's new because I'm always looking for Ralph Vaughan Williams tunes, etc. "The King of Love My Shepherd Is" has not yet been sequenced as a MIDI, but I noticed that in the 1982 Hymnal it is listed as #645 and also as #646. I'm wondering if that's a typo or if there are two different tunes. I noticed in the past that sometimes the same hymn's words are set to two different tunes on facing pages of a hymnal.

BTW, does anyone have any good links for finding tunes that RVW collected? Or in order to help Lynne, is there a way to search for hymns that use Irish tunes?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Processional - Irish Music
From: Hardiman the Fiddler
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 10:07 PM

How about the old Irish tune, "The Rights of Man?"

I'm just joking....actually the O'Carolan suggestion is a nice one, and I'll bet several could be played if the aisle is long---I've always been fond of "Lord Inchquin," which is think would make a lovely processional.

Also in many hymnals is a tune , "Lord of all hopefulness" which I believe was a Vaughn Williams arrangement of a traditional Irish tune. That one might be nice for congregational singing. HTF

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Processional - Irish Music
From: alison
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 11:18 PM

There are words to "give me your hand".. not sure if they have made it into the database yet.

slainte

alison

Subject: Lyr in another thread: Processional - Irish Music
From: alison
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 11:25 PM

found it..... Give me your hand

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Processional - Irish Music
From: Tchaikovsky
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 12:44 AM

Mary in Kentucky - It is quite normal for the same words to be set twice in a hymnal. Usually one set of words is composed with a tune and then some twit comes along and notices that a different song has the same rythmic structure (text-wise) as another song and changes all the words. There's even a metic index in the back of the Anglican hymn books so that you can change the texts around yourself. It sometimes comes in handy when you see words to a hymn that would go really well in a particular service but none of the congregation knows the tune....so you change the tune and use those words. I really hate doing this though. Anyways, there's a long explanation to your question. Good luck on finding processionals by the way! Let us know what you decide.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Processional - Irish Music
From: GUEST,Lynne
Date: 13 Mar 00 - 08:01 PM

Thanks for the suggestions! I have awhile to make up my mind. I'm not getting married until the end of Sepember so I'll check out some of the suggestions. Thanks for the help!! If anyone thinks of any others please let me know.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Processional - Irish Music
From: Susan-Marie
Date: 14 Mar 00 - 05:26 PM

Tchaikovsky - Our band played Fanny Power along with a few other waltzes as a processional for a wedding last June. It worked well.

Lynne - you might want to think of using two pieces of music - one for the bridesmaids and one for you. That's what our bride did, so she'd have her own "special" music. She liked the Augusta Waltz, which is contemporary, but it fit well with the Irish waltzes we did for the bridesmaids.

Hey, maybe instead of a DJ you should just hire our band - we work cheap! Seriously, in some parts of the world you can't turn over a rock without finding an Irish band, so live music may not be beyond your reach. DO some research - hang out in some pubs - and you may find a local band that would almost pay you for the privelge of playing at your wedding. Good luck.