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Wedding March mp3 Piano
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The lyrics written for the opera Lohengrin are never used in modern day weddings. Several have attempted to compose new lyrics to fit this familiar tune, but with no success on any grand scale. This may be partially due to the march-like nature of the music, which somehow makes meaningful lyrics hard to pen in a style that would be broadly appreciated in modern culture. As well, it would be almost a necessity to begin the lyric with "Here comes the bride", since 99% of all listeners immediately think of that lyric when they hear the opening Wedding March melody. This limits the creative process; that line is not the most poetic ever written, to put it mildy, and so almost immediately the poet's job is daunting and nigh unto impossible.
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Here's an interesting article about the Wedding March:
http://www.weddingmusicproject.com/blog/processionals/wedding-march-download-mp3-wagner/
http://weddingmusicproject.bandcamp.com/album/bridal-chorus-sheet-music-here-comes-the-bride-wedding-march-gentle-piano-short-long-versions
"Here Comes The Bride," sometimes comes to mind, but that is simply a phrase that happens to fit the music but has no connection to Wagner's opera or the Bridal Chorus. The original lyric began as follows:
"Faithfully guided, draw near
to where the blessing of love shall preserve you"
Young children have their own lyrics they sing; you might hear a young girl happily singing "Here comes the bride, all dressed in white" as she fantasizes about walking down the aisle in her own wedding.
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"Here Comes The Bride, all dressed in white" is what sometimes comes to mind, possibly the lyric creation of a small child in the early 20th century. The original lyric from the opera Lohengrin began with
"Faithfully guided, draw near
to where the blessing of love shall preserve you"
In the opera, the bridal chorus is sung by the bridal attendants as they accompany Elsa to the bridal chamber after the wedding ceremony.
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Here Comes The Bride Trumpet & Orchestra has no lyrics. However, if you listen carefully, you might hear very young ladies creating their own words as they daydream about their special day to come! "Here comes the bride, dressed all in white...."
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There are no lyrics used in the present day for the Wedding March, except in the opera "Lohengrin" by Wagner from which we get this famous piece. In the opera, the Bridal Chorus|Wedding March is heard not before but after the wedding and is sung by the bridal party as the bride is going to her bridal chamber.
In it's operatic setting the words of the song, full of romantic platitudes and hope for the future, are tinged with irony, since the marriage of the heroine Elsa and her new husband Lohengrin quickly falls apart. Thankfully, wedding guests are not usually familiar with the story, or if they are, typically disregard any negative associations in favor of the emotion of the moment - the bridal entrance, accompanied by this stately Wedding March. Instrumentation is solo violin, string orchestra, french horn, piano, and percussion - tympani, orchestra bells, and chimes.
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Bridal Chorus Piano
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The words from the opera began as follows:
Faithfully guided, draw near
to where the blessing of love shall preserve you
Triumphant courage, the reward of love
joins you in faith as the happiest of couples
The song ended with these lyrics:
Triumphant courage, love and happiness
join you in faith as the happiest of couple
(To hear these words being sung, you'll need to attend the opera Lohengrin, and take a translator with you).
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The lyrics that originally accompanied this music in Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" are never used. Some think of this song as "Here Comes The Bride" but that does not originate with the opera Lohengrin. The bridal chorus actually occurs after the wedding ceremony in Wagner's opera, as the bride is being accompanied to the bridal suite by her attendants.
The Bridal Chorus provides a link to the past and bridal processional music that your mother, grandmother, and other family members may have walked down the aisle to. In previous decades, it was most commonly played on a pipe organ or church organ, and sometimes on piano or as a piano-organ duet. Today you can find hundreds of versions of this classical bridal processional arranged for every conceivable instrument and ensemble; this piano rendition is perhaps the most relaxing and gentle version available anywhere.
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There are or course no standard lyrics for the Wedding March, unless you are thinking of the words from the opera, which to our knowledge are never used in modern day weddings. Some have tried writing English words, but no attempts have successfully caught on.
In the opera Lohengrin, this song, sung as the ladies of the bridal party accompany the bride back to the bridal chamber, ends with these lyrics:
Faithfully guarded, remain behind
where the blessing of love shall preserve you
Triumphant courage, love and happiness
join you in faith as the happiest of couples
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Wedding March Trumpet & Orchestra has no lyrics except those from the opera Lohengrin from which it came, but they are not easily translated into English, and would indeed seem out of place if sung in most modern weddings. Here is a taste of some of the lines from Lohengrin, translated into English:
Faithfully guided, draw near
to where the blessing of love shall preserve you!
Triumphant courage, the reward of love,
joins you in faith as the happiest of couples!
Champion of virtue, proceed!
Jewel of youth, proceed!
Flee now the splendor of the wedding feast,
may the delights of the heart be yours!
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This traditional bridal processional from the opera Lohengrin began with this lyric:
"Faithfully guided, draw near
to where the blessing of love shall preserve you"
In the present day these lyrics are never heard in a wedding ceremony setting.
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The original lyrics from Wagner's Lohengrin are never heard in wedding ceremonies, though "Here Comes the Bride" is of course the common name for the Bridal Chorus.
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Wedding March Song Piano
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Wedding March Song Piano has no lyrics commonly used in weddings today, though in the opera Lohengrin it was sung by the bridal party after the ceremony as the bride was making her way to the bridal chamber for what was, unbeknownst to our heroine Elsa, to be a tragically short marriage to her husband Lohengrin. Wedding guests today rarely if ever consider the original setting, and instead take those opening notes to be their cue to stand and gaze at the beautiful bride as she slowly makes her way down the aisle to join the wedding party.
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There are no lyrics sung today to this classic bridal processional from the opera Lohengrin, though a young lady can sometimes be overheard singing some made-up lyrics in her make-believe wedding.
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"Bridal Chorus gentle, very short" has no lyrics, although the original version composed by Wagner featured a chorus singing this song to the tragic heroine of the opera Lohengrin immediately following the wedding ceremony as she was headed to the bridal chamber. There are, of course, lyrics that young children have created for their play acting, but these are nothing like the lofty words originally penned for the opera. A few attempts have been made to pen lyrics for this tune, but none of them have proven to be popular - the march-like nature of the music in most of our minds makes it incompatible with a contemporary, emotional lyric. It is enjoyable, though, to occasionally watch an old movie with some version of a lyric attempt - the old Father Of The Bride (not the recent re-make) being one of them.
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Bridal March Trumpet & Orchestra has no lyrics; those from the opera would be unwieldy and unusable if translated, and the nature of the march-like music make it difficult for modern day songwriters to compose alternate lyrics that seem fitting for a wedding ceremony.
The Bridal March is the most famous of all bridal processionals in the western world, though in recent decades there has been a decided trend toward individualism and occasionally uniqueness in the choice of walking music for the bride.
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The lyric "Here Comes The Bride," is what many of us think of when we hear the opening strains of the Bridal Chorus, but that has no connection to the opera Lohengrin from whence it originates. The operatic lyric begins thus:
"Faithfully guided, draw near
to where the blessing of love shall preserve you"
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No standard lyrics have been composed for this music, which is from the opera Lohengrin, composed by Richard Wagner. There have been numerous attempts, but none of them have found popularity. Of course young children at play have many different versions they create as they daydream about being married and walking down the aisle.
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"Here Comes The Bride, all dressed in white" is what sometimes comes to mind, and what young children at play might sing. The original Bridal Chorus from the opera Lohengrin began with
"Faithfully guided, draw near
to where the blessing of love shall preserve you"
Today, no lyrics are sung to this most traditional of bridal processionals.
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The Bridal Chorus is never heard with lyrics except in an operatic setting; it is originally a part of Wagner's Lohengrin.
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Bridal Chorus Trumpet & Orchestra has no lyrics included. The original lyric from the opera is unsuitable for modern weddings. There have been no successful attempts to rewrite the words to this most classic wedding song, at least none that have met with any degree of acceptance.
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