Seattle String Quartet 

Partial list of music for weddings, reception, or parties.

1)          Canon (Pachelbel)

2)         Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring

3)          Wedding March-vocal arrangement for trio available          

4)          Trumpet Voluntary

5)         Trumpet Tune

6)          Bridal Chorus

7)         Winter

8)          Rondeau

9)         Ave Marie (Schubert) vocal arrangement available

10)       Sheep May Safely Graze

11)        Wedding Music (Aria)

12)        Hornpipe       

13)       La Rejouissance

14)       Meditation from "Thais"       

15)       Minuet 

16)       Menuetto

17)       Brandenburg Concerto, No.3

18)       Gavotte           

19)       Corrente

20)       Gigue

21)       Passacaile

22)       Air (Handel)

23)       Entrance of the Queen of Sheeba

            Opera Favorites

24)       O mio babino caro

25)       The Flower Song from Lakme

26)       Der Vogelfanger

27)       Barcarolle

28)       Habanera

29)       Toreador’s Song of Carmen

30)       Divertimento I

31)       Eine kleine Nachtmusik

Scott Joplin

32)       Country Club

33)       Paragon Rag

34)       Maple Leaf Rag

Love Songs

35)       As Time Goes By

36)       I’ve Got A Crush On You

37)       Someone To Watch Over Me

38)       The Rose

39)       What’s New

40)       Embraceable You

41)        The Man I Love

42)        A Pretty Girl-Irving Berlin

        Porgy & Bess Selections-Irving Berlin

            Summertime

            It Ain't Necessarily So

            Bess, You Is My Woman Now

            I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'

            A Women Is a Sometime Thing

            There's a Boat Dat's Leaving' Soon for New York

            My Man's Gone Now

            Oh Lawd, I'm on My Way

Other Favorites

    Jerusalem-(Blake & Parry: Arranged by George Hoyt)

    The Heavens Declare the Glory of God (Marcello)

    Larghetto (Handel)

    Festival March (Mendelssohn)

    Morning Has Broken

    My Heart Ever Faithful (Bach)

    Largo (Vivaldi)

    Gavotte (Boyce)

    Thanks Be To Thee (Handel)

    March (Handel)

    Meditation from Motet #3 (Bach)

    Clair De Lune

    The Lord's Prayer - vocal arrangement available

Jazz Favorites for the String Quartet

    It's Only A Paper Moon

    It Had To Be You

    Bye Bye Blackbird

    Blue Moon

    Take Five

    How High The Moon

    A Day In The Life Of A Fool

At Last (vocal arrangement available)

You Lift Me Up by Josh Groban  

List of Jewish music for weddings, receptions, Bar Mitzvahs, Bat Mitzvahs, etc.

Hana'ava Babanot (The Fairest of Maidens)

    Erev Ba (Evening Comes)

    Y'did Nefesh (Beloved of My Soul)

    Erev Shel Shoshanim (Evening of Roses)

    Dodi Li (My Beloved is Mine, and I am His)

    S'u Sh'orim (Look Up tothe Gates)

    El Kabir (Almighty G-d)

    Medley: Od Y'shama & Mezel Tov (The voice of Gladness Shall Be Heard Again)    

    Simon Tov (Congratulations - Good Luck or  Good Luck to the Bride and Groom)

    Nigun (Tune)

    Tam Balalaika (Play Balalaika)

    V'ha'er E'ne'nu (Enlighten Our Eyes to Your Torah)

    Nava Nagila (Let's Rejoice)

    Waves of the Danube "The Anniversary Waltz"

    Rabbi Elimelech Medley (In the Klezmer Style)

K'VAR ACHARE CHATSOT

CHORSHAT HA'EKALIPTUS

Y'rushalayim Shel Zahav

AL KOL ELE

HAVA NAGILA

HEVENU SHALOM ALECHEM

DONA DONA

MAYIM, MAYIM

OSE SHALOM

BASHANA HABA'A

WEDDING MARCH

MAZEL TOV

HAKOTEL

K'SHOSHANA BEN HACHOCHIM

HITRAGUT

 

List of Scandinavian Music

Ack Varmeland, Du Skona (Sweden-Oh Beautiful Varmeland)

Pigen Synger (Denmark-Singing Girl)

Det Var en Lordag Aften (Denmark-One Saturday Evening)

Ringnesen (Norway-A Round Game)

Na Skiner Sola (Norway-Now the Sun is Shining)

Emma (Finland)

On Neidolla Punapaula (Sweden and Finland-The Young Girl With Red Ribbons)

Gammal Fabodpsalm (Old Chalet Hymn)

Appelbo Ganglat (Sweden-Applenest Walking Tune)

Wedding Day at Troldhaugen

Brudvalsen (The Bride's Waltz)

Berceuse (Vuggevise)

Sangerhilsen

Halling

Sonner av Norge (O Sons of Norway)

Bud signe Norigs land (God Bless Our Nation)

Ved Rondane (Home-coming at Rondane)

Gud signe vart dyre Fedraland  (Hymn to Norway)

Vi vandrer med freidig mot (We Wander With Spirits High)

Norsk Bondevals (Norwegian Peasant Waltz)

Morning-Mood from Peer Gynt

Peer Gynt Suite by Grieg (String Quartet only)

Holberg Suite (String Quartet only)

List of Irish Music

G&S Jig Medley, 1 (“If You Wanna Play With the Turfmen”, “Running Aground”, “Economizing)

G&S Jig Medley, 2 (“Blow Harmonica Blow”, “Crossing Great Glen”, “Thingama Jig”)

Irish Medley, No. 1 (“Rights of Man”, “Down Went McGinty to the Bottom of the Sea”, “Banish Misfortune”, “Irish Washerwoman”)

Irish Medley, No. 2 (“Dark Haired Lass”, “Rose Tree”, “St. Anne’s Reel”, “Tater Patch”, “The Miller”)

Irish Medley, No. 3 (“Repeal of the Union”, “Jack Mitchell’s Polka”, “Smash the Windows”, “Whiskey Before Breakfast”)

Irish Medley, No. 4 (“Crabs in the Skillet”, “Larry O’Gaff”, “Haste to the Wedding”, “Brian’s March”)
Londonderry Air

O’Carolan Medley, No. 1 (“Young Terence McDonough”, “Beauty in Tears”, “Planxty John Irwin”, “Si Bheag Si Mhor”)

Greensleeves

Violin Concerti

        1) Violin Concerto #1 in a minor by Johann Sebastian Bach

        2) Violin Concerto #2 in E Major by Johann Sebastian Bach

Classical Favorites

        Symphony No 6, Movement 1 - Ludwig van Beethoven

Music listed below only for String Quartet

    Library of Additional Music Arranged by Matthew Naughtin

*Bach: "Air" from Suite No. 3 in D

*Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F

*Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G

*Bach: Cantata No. 140, Verse 1 "Wachet Auf"

*Bach: Chorale Prelude: Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier

*Bach: Chorale Prelude: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme

*Bach: "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"

*Bach: Largo from the Concerto for Two Violins

*Bach: Minuet in G (Anna Magdalena)

*Handel: Violin Sonata No. 4 in D

Handel: Hornpipe from the Water Music

*Vivaldi: "Spring" from The Four Seasons

*Vivaldi: Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op. 3, #11

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*Christmas Medley I (Includes: "Silver Bells", "Let It Snow", "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and "White Christmas")

*Christmas Medley II (Includes: "Shepherds Leave Your Sheep", "Come, O Come Emmanuel" and "Here We Come A-Caroling")

*Christmas Medley III (Includes: "Coventry Carol", "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" and "Listen, Lordlings, Unto Me")

"Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella"

*"Bell Carol" and "Good Christian Men Rejoice"

*Davis: "The Carol of the Drum"

*Praetorius: "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming"

*Adam: "O Holy Night"

*Leontovich: "Ring, Christmas Bells"

Gruber: "Silent Night"

*"We Wish You a Merry Christmas"

"What Child is This?" ("Greensleeves")

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*"Golden Earrings" (Traditional)

Bartók: Rumanian Folk Dances

*Bizet: Entr'acte to Act IV of Carmen

*Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 1

*Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5

*Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 6

*Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 7

*Herbert: "Gypsy Life"

Keler: "Son of the Puszta"

*Kreisler: Allegretto after Boccherini

*Kreisler: "Caprice Viennoise"

Kreisler: "The Old Refrain"

*Kreisler: "Schön Rosmarin"

Kreisler: "Tambourin Chinoise"

Sarasate: "Romanza Andaluza"

*Strauss: "Czardas" from Die Fledermaus

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*"La Bamba" (Traditional)

*Abreu: "Tico-Tico"

*Bandolim: "Noites Cariocas"

*Bizet: Habañera from Carmen

Bonfa: "Manha de Carnaval" from Black Orpheus

Gade: "Jalousie" Tango

*Gardel: "Por Una Cabeza" Tango from Scent of a Woman

Ginastera: Danzas Argentinas No. 2

Villoldo: "El Choclo" Tango

Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brazileiras No. 5

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*Beethoven: Adagio from the Pathetique  Sonata (String Quartet Only)

*Bizet: Entr'acte to Act III of Carmen

*Bizet: "Flower Song" from Carmen

Brahms: Poco Allegretto from Symphony No. 3

*Debussy: "Clair de lune"

*Debussy: "The Girl With the Flaxen Hair"

*Debussy: "Golliwog's Cake-walk"

*Dvorák: Largo from the New World  Symphony

Faure: Pavane

Lehar: "Vilia" from The Merry Widow

*Massenet: "Meditation" from Thais

*Puccini: "Che Gelida Manina" from La Boheme

*Rachmaninov: 18th Variation from Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Rachmaninov: "Vocalise"

*Ravel: Menuet from Le Tombeau de Couperin

Ravel: "Pavane por une infante defunte"

*Satie: Three "Gymnopedies"

*Shostakovich: "Romance"

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Chopin Waltz Suite

Dvorák: Waltz movement from Symphony No. 8

*Kreisler: "Liebesfreud" Waltz

Lehar: Waltz Suite from The Merry Widow

*J. Strauss, Jr.: Waltz Suite from Die Fledermaus

*J. Strauss, Jr.: "Tales from the Vienna Woods" Waltz

R. Strauss: Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier--Suite 1

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Ivanovici: "Danube Waves" Waltz

Kreisler: "Midnight Bells" Waltz

*Puccini: "Musetta's Waltz" from La Boheme

*Stolz: "Two Hearts in Three-Quarter Time"

*J. Strauss, Jr.: "Blue Danube" Waltzes

J. Strauss, Jr.: "Wiener Blut" Waltzes

R. Strauss: Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier--Suite 2

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"Summer"

*"Fall"

*"Winter"

*"Spring"

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Anonymous: Wedding Song ("There is Love")

*"Amazing Grace" (Traditional)

*Bach: "Air" from Suite No. 3 in D

*Bach: "Arioso" from Cantata No. 156

*Bach: Chorale Prelude: Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier

*Bach: Chorale Prelude: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme

*Bach: "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"

*Bach/Gounod: "Ave Maria"

Beethoven: "Ode to Joy"

Frank: "Panis Angelicus"

Handel: "Hornpipe" from The Water Music

Handel: "Menuet" from The Water Music

Malotte: "The Lord's Prayer"

*Massenet: "Meditation" from Thais

Mendelssohn: Wedding March

Naughtin: Wedding Suite

*Pachelbel: Canon in D

Purcell: Trumpet Tune ("The King of Denmark")

Purcell: Trumpet Voluntary in D

Schubert: "Ave Maria"

Wagner: "Bridal Chorus" from Lohengrin

 

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