Wedding Music for Flute & Guitar

By Mychal Gendron. For Guitar & Flute. Duets. Editiones Classicae. Wedding. Level: Intermediate. Book. Size 8.75x11.75. 96 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

This collection provides flute and guitar duos with an effective repertoire for wedding ceremonies, and gives prospective brides and grooms a happy musical alternative to the venerable church organ. Arranged in four sections: Prelude Music, Processionals, Meditations, and Recessionals. Many of the pieces in this volume are well-known works often associated with weddings; others, less familiar, were included for their musical content and mood. Guitar parts in notation only. A separate part is provided for the flutist.

A Good Buy
"I found this book particularly helpful in planning what music to play for an upcoming wedding. From a flutists point of view, the arrangements are pretty good, easy to play, and all the music is arranged in the book according to preludes, processionals, meditations, and recessionals which really helps! I highly recommend this book!"
-- Leah W. from New York, May 16, 2007
Utility is teh key here
"All the books you'll find of this ilk are by folks who've used this music for gigs. Consider you audiences--weddings, cocktail parties--and their musical knowledge/tastes.
For many years (1975-1990) I played gigs with all the flute and guitar masterworks (Ibert, Giuliani, Castelnuevo-Tedesco, Villa-Lobos, etc.) with flautists who studied with Murray Panitz, James Gallway, etc. We'd be playing our fingers off and then someone would come up to us and ask, "Can you play any Beatles songs?" So we decided to chill out, drink some wine, tone it down a few notches, and play what the masses liked. And we made more money that way :-) That all said, this is pleasant MUZAK for the masses. "
-- Peter Gouzouasis, Ph.D.--Chair, Music Ed from University of British Columbia, February 01, 2007
Nice, useful book
"This is indeed a book of well-known music in rather ordinary, but perfectly competent and readable arrangements. I can't imagine giving it only 1 star just for being what it is. I find the book very useful for gigs. It's not for your master's recital. Please forgive it."
-- bd from Cincinnati, November 11, 2006
Nice Book
"The pieces in this collection seem to be very well written. The work is simplistic in scope...these are simply wedding standards. In that, this book accomplishes its task with a lot of taste. "
-- Anonymous, July 17, 2006
Wedding Music for Flute & Guitar