Blog Post 20: Coming Soon
Look for our new CMP Wedding Music Collection for Woodwind Quintet on 16 May 2026
Our newest exceptional arrangement for winds:
The CMP Wedding Music Collection - for Woodwind Quintet, featuring six popular selections by Bach, Clarke, Handel, Mendelssohn, & Wagner. Perfect for your upcoming wedding gigs.
Thanks for stopping by, and welcome to my blog! I hope you had a great week. A recent 12-day hospitalization has gotten me a bit behind. I will be back on 29 May with more anecdotes, trivia questions, memories, and a fondness for music. Our newest offering will be published on 22 May 2026: the CMP Wedding Music Collection. This intermediate digital download arrangement for woodwind quintet offers six popular wedding-music selections in one collection at a 50% discount. With the CMP Wedding Music Collection, your audiences will enjoy hearing:
🎶Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," from Cantata BWV 147 “Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben”
🎶Handel's "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" from the oratorio Solomon
🎶Handel's "Air" from the Water Music Suites
🎶Clarke's (Attr. Purcell) "Trumpet Voluntary"
🎶Wagner's "Bridal Chorus" from Lohengrin, and
🎶Mendelssohn's "Wedding March," from A Midsummer Night's Dream
The popular “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” is from Bach’s Cantata BWV 147, written in 1723 during his early years as Thomaskantor (music director) at the world-famous Thomanerkirche, a Lutheran church in Leipzig, Germany. Handel’s “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba,” a wedding music staple, was composed in 1749 to depict the bustling preparations and fervor surrounding the Queen of Sheba's regal state visit to the UK. Handel’s perennial favorite “Air” is from the Water Music Suites, which were first performed in 1717 for King George I at an aristocratic celebration aboard a royal barge headed up the River Thames in London, England.
Clarke’s “Trumpet Voluntary,” written around 1700, was also known as the "Prince of Denmark March," and found renewed popularity when it was performed at the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981. Bridal Chorus" from Richard Wagner’s opera Lohengrin is a staple of American and European wedding music. It is famously used for the bridal processional, generally known as "Here Comes the Bride." Finally, Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March,” from his Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, was written in 1842, five years before Mendelssohn's death. This exuberant and popular march was commissioned by a Prussian King while Mendelssohn was the Music Director of the Gewandhaus Orchester in Leipzig, Germany.
These six selections are perfect for college groups, amateur ensembles, and professional quintets. As always, I have included an alternate bass clarinet part in lieu of a missing bassoon. Although originally scored for various configurations, this unique setting for winds will delight your audiences and add just the right touch of class to any wedding.
To learn more about this wedding music collection, click here. In the meantime, you can listen to my latest arrangement of Jeremiah Clarke’s “Trumpet Voluntary” for woodwind quintet, part of the CMP Wedding Music Collection, by clicking on the MP3 player below. Then click here to purchase it from our Shop. Again, thanks for stopping by. See you in my next blog!
15 May 2026
Cover art for Jeremiah Clarke (Attr. Purcell): Trumpet Voluntary, arranged for Woodwind Quintet
