Song List for Solo Violin or Cello

Classical Wedding Favorites

Air on the G String — Bach

Alleluja (from Exultate Jubilate) — Mozart

Arioso — Bach

Ave Maria — Bach

Ave Maria — Schubert

Ave Verum Corpus — Mozart

Bist Du Bei Mir — Bach

Bridal Chorus (from Here Comes the Bride) — Wagner

Canon in D — Pachelbel

Clair de Lune — Debussy

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (from A Little Night Music) — Mozart

Entrance of the Queen of Sheba — Handel

Flower Duet (from Lakmé) — Delibes

Hallelujah Chorus (from Messiah) — Handel

If With All Your Hearts (from Elijah) — Mendelssohn

Intermezzo — Mascagni

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring — Bach

La Rejouissance (from Royal Fireworks Music) — Handel

Meditation (from Thaïs) — Massenet

My Heart Ever Faithful — Bach

Ode to Joy — Beethoven

Panis Angelicus — Franck

Prelude (from Suite No. 1 in G Major for Unaccompanied Cello) — Bach

Prelude (from Te Deum) — Charpentier

Rigaudon — Campra

Rondeau — Mouret

Salut d’Amor (from Op. 12) — Elgar

Selections (from Water Music) — Handel

Sheep May Safely Graze — Bach

Sleeping Beauty Waltz — Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 9 (from Largo movement) — Dvorak

The Fairy Garden — Ravel

The Four Seasons — Vivaldi

The Swan (from Carnival of the Animals) — Saint-Saens

Theme (from Swan Lake) — Tchaikovsky

Theme from Jupiter (from The Planets) — Holst

Träumerei — Schumann

Trumpet Tune — Purcell

Trumpet Voluntary — Clarke

Wachet Auf — Bach

Wedding March — Mendelssohn

Wedding March (from The Marriage of Figaro) — Mozart

Broadway, Movies, TV, & Jazz

A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes (from Cinderella)

A Heart Full of Love (from Les Miserables)

A Love That Will Never Grow Old (from Brokeback Mountain)

A Whole New World (from Aladdin)

All I Ask of You (from Phantom of the Opera)

All in the Golden Afternoon (from Alice in Wonderland)

Always Remember Us This Way (from A Star Is Born) — Lady Gaga

Ashokan Farewell (from The Civil War)

At Last — Etta James

At the Beginning (from Anastasia)

Because of You — Tony Bennett

Bella Notte (from Lady and the Tramp)

Bella’s Lullaby (from Twilight)

Can You Feel the Love Tonight (from The Lion King) — Elton John

Can You Read My Mind (from Superman)

Cast Your Fate to the Wind — Vince Guaraldi

Colors of the Wind (from Pocahontas)

Concerning Hobbits (from Lord of the Rings)

Doris Day (from Love Story)

Evergreen — Barbara Streisand

Everything — Michael Bublé

Falling Slowly (from Once) — The Vitamin String Quartet

Feather Theme (from Forrest Gump)

Film scores (from Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Superman, E.T., Harry Potter, Jurassic Park) — JOHN WILLIAMS

For the Love of a Princess (from Braveheart)

Gabriel’s Oboe (from The Mission) — Ennio Morricone

Glasgow Love Theme (from Love Actually)

Gonna Fly Now (from Rocky)

Goodbye Brother (from Game of Thrones)

Hakuna Matata (from The Lion King)

Happily Ever After (from Jordan Fisher & Angie Keilhauer)

How Far I’ll Go (from Moana)

I Had a Farm in Africa (from Out of Africa)

I See the Light (from Tangled)

Ice and Fire (from Game of Thrones)

In My Life (from Les Miserables)

It Had To Be You — Harry Connick Jr.

Kiss the Girl (from The Little Mermaid)

L.O.V.E. — Nat King Cole

La Vie en Rose — Édith Piaf

Let It Go (from Frozen)

Light of the Seven (from Game of Thrones)

Louis Armstrong — Doris Day

Love Theme (from St. Elmo’s Fire)

Love Theme (from Romeo and Juliet)

Ma Belle Evangeline (from The Princess and the Frog)

Many jazz standards (from Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, the Gershwin brothers, and more)

Married Life (from UP)

May It Be (from Lord of the Rings) — Enya

Mission: IMPOSSIBLE — Lalo Schifrin

Moon River (from Breakfast at Tiffany’s)

Music of the Night (from Phantom of the Opera)

My Heart Will Go On (from Titanic)

Once Upon a Dream (from Snow White)

One Hand, One Heart (from West Side Story)

Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz) — Harold Arlen

Portuguese Love Theme (from Love Actually)

Prime Minister’s Love Theme (from Love Actually)

Rains of Castamere (from Game of Thrones)

So Close (from Enchanted)

So This Is Love (from Cinderella)

Storybook Love (from The Princess Bride)

Sunrise, Sunset (from Fiddler on the Roof)

Tale As Old As Time (from Beauty and the Beast) — Alan Menken

The Best Is Yet To Come — Frank Sinatra

The Rose — Bette Midler

The songbook (from THE GREATEST SHOWMAN A Million Dreams, Never Enough, more)

The Time of My Life (from Dirty Dancing)

The Way We Were — Barbara Streisand

Theme (from Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Theme (from The Neverending Story)

Through the Eyes of Love (from Ice Castles)

Up Where We Belong (from An Officer and a Gentleman”)

What a Wonderful World — Louis Armstrong

When You Wish Upon a Star (from Pinocchio)

You’ll Be in My Heart (from Tarzan)

You’ve Got a Friend in Me (from You’ve Got a Friend in Me)

Pop, Rock, Country, & R&B Favorites

Accidentally in Love — Counting Crows

All I Do — Stevie Wonder

All My Life — Aaron Neville & Linda Ronstadt

All You Need Is Love — The Beatles

Always and Forever — Luther Vandross

Amazed — Lonestar

And So It Goes — Billy Joel

Angels — Robbie Williams

Annie’s Song — John Denver

Ants Marching — Dave Matthews

Beautiful Day — U2

Because You Loved Me — Celine Dion

Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me — Jim Weatherly

Bittersweet Symphony — The Verve

Bless the Broken Road — Rascal Flatts

Can’t Fight This Feeling Anymore — REO Speedwagon

Can’t Help Falling in Love — Elvis Presley

Caught Up in the Rapture — Anita Baker

Chapel of Love — The Dixie Cups

Cowboy Take Me Away — Dixie Chicks

Crazy Love — Van Morrison

Dance Me to the End of Love — Leonard Cohen

Don’t Stop Believing — Journey

Dreaming of You — Selena

Endless Love — Lionel Richie & Diana Ross

Everything I Do (I Do It for You) — Bryan Adams

Everytime I Close My Eyes — Babyface

Feels Like Home — Linda Ronstadt

Fernando — ABBA

Fields of Gold — Sting

Forever in Love — Kenny G

Friday I’m in Love — The Cure

From This Moment — Shania Twain

God Only Knows — The Beach Boys

Groovy Kind of Love — Phil Collins

Hallelujah (from Shrek) — Leonard Cohen

Happy Together — The Turtles

Harvest Moon — Neil Young

Have I Told You Lately — Van Morrison

Here and Now — Luther Vandross

Here Comes the Sun — The Beatles

How Deep Is Your Love — Bee Gees

How Sweet It Is — James Taylor

I Believe in You and Me — The Four Tops

I Don’t Want To Miss a Thing — Aerosmith

I Just Can’t Stop Loving You — Michael Jackson

I Will Always Love You — Whitney Houston

I'll Stand By You — The Pretenders

In Your Eyes — Peter Gabriel

Isn’t She Lovely — Stevie Wonder

Just Like Heaven — The Cure

Kiss from a Rose — Seal

Kiss Me — Sixpence None the Richer

Knocks Me Off My Feet — Stevie Wonder

Landslide — Fleetwood Mac

Leather and Lace — Fleetwood Mac

Let’s Stay Together — Al Green

Love Is Like a Butterfly — Dolly Parton

Lovin’ You — Minnie Riperton

Make You Feel My Love — Bob Dylan

Maybe I’m Amazed — Paul McCartney

Me and You — Kenny Chesney

Moondance — Van Morrison

My Best Friend — Tim McGraw

My Girl — The Temptations

My Guy — Smokey Robinson

My Sweet Lord — George Harrison

Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love for You — Glenn Medeiros

Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now — Starship

Once in My Life — Stevie Wonder

Overjoyed — Stevie Wonder

Power of Two — Indigo Girls

Rhiannon — Stevie Wonder

Saving All My Love for You — Whitney Houston

September — Earth Wind & Fire

She’s Always a Woman — Billy Joel

Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours — Stevie Wonder

Songbird — Fleetwood Mac

Stand By Me — Ben E. King

Stuck in the Middle With You — Steelers Wheel

The Wedding Song — Kenny G

The Wedding Song (There Is Love) — Peter, Paul & Mary

This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) — Natalie Cole

To Love You More — Celine Dion

Two of Us — The Beatles

Unchained Melody — The Righteous Brothers

Viva La Vida — Coldplay

We’ve Only Just Begun — The Carpenters

What Is Life — George Harrison

When You Say Nothing At All — Alison Krauss

Where the Green Grass Grows — Tim McGraw

Wild Horses — The Rolling Stones

Wouldn’t It Be Nice — The Beach Boys

You Are So Beautiful — Joe Cocker

You Are the Sunshine of My Life — Stevie Wonder

You Make My Dreams — Hall & Oates

You Sang To Me — Marc Anthony

You’re My Best Friend — Queen

You’re the First, the Last, My Everything — Barry White

You’re the Inspiration — Chicago

Your Song — Elton John

Music of the 2000’s

100 Years — Five for Fighting

A Dustland Fairytale — The Killers

A Thousand Years — Christina Perri

All My Life — K-Ci & Jojo

All of Me — John Legend

All of the Lights (from full song) — Kanye West

Beautiful (As You) — Jim Brickman

Beautiful Day — U2

Beautiful in White — Westlife

Best Day of My Life — American Authors

Better Place — Rachel Platten

Better Together — Jack Johnson

Bless the Broken Road — Rascal Flatts

Chasing Cars — Snow Patrol

Cheerleader — OMI

Count On Me — Bruno Mars

Despacito — Luis Fonsi

First Day of My Life — Bright Eyes

Flightless Bird, American Mouth — Iron & Wine

Free — Zac Brown Band

From the Ground Up — Dan + Shay

Girl on Fire — Alicia Keys

Give It All We Got Tonight — George Strait

Give Me Love — Ed Sheeran

God Gave Me You — Dave Barnes

Heart Like Yours — Willamette Stone

Hey, Soul Sister — Train

Ho Hey — The Lumineers

Home - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes — Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes

Home - Michael Bublé — Michael Bublé

Hoppípolla — Sigur Rós

How Long Will I Love You — Ellie Goulding

I Choose You — Sara Bareilles

I Do — Colbie Caillat

I Get to Love You — Ruelle

I Won’t Give Up — Jason Mraz

I’ll Be — Edwin McCain

I’m Yours — Jason Mraz

If I Ain’t Got You — Alicia Keys

If I Lose Myself — One Republic

Island in the Sun — Weezer

Just the Way You Are — Bruno Mars

Latch (Acoustic) — Sam Smith

Let Me Down Easy — Billy Currington

Love Me Like You Do — Ellie Goulding

Love Me Now — John Legend

Love Remains the Same — Gavin Rossdale

Love Story — Taylor Swift

Lover — Taylor Swift

Lucky — Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat

Marry Me — Train

Marry You — Bruno Mars (Please check the lyrics before you choose this song.)

Miracle — Celine Dion

Never Felt This Way — Alicia Keys & Brian McKnight

Never Grow Up — Taylor Swift

Next To Me — Emeli Sandé

No One — Alicia Keys

One and Only — Adele

Our Kind of Love — Lady Antebellum

Peace — O.A.R

Perfect — Ed Sheeran

Photograph — Ed Sheeran

Rather Be — Clean Bandit

Remember When — Alan Jackson

Rhythm of Love — Plain White T’s

Rolling in the Deep — Adele

Say You Won’t Let Go — James Arthur

Secrets — One Republic

Shape of You — Ed Sheeran

She Will Be Loved — Maroon 5

Something Just Like This — The Chainsmokers and Coldplay

Somewhere Only We Know — Keane

Speechless — Dan + Shay

Starlight — Muse

Still Into You — Paramore

Such Great Heights — The Postal Service; Iron and Wine

Sugar — Maroon 5

Talk of the Town — Jack Johnson

The Bones — Maren Morris

The Luckiest — Ben Folds

The Other Side — Ruelle

There’s Nothing Holding Me Back — Shawn Mendez

Thinkin Bout You — Frank Ocean

Thinking Out Loud — Ed Sheeran

This Is For the Lover in You — Babyface

This Is It — Scotty McCreery

This Time — John Legend

This Year’s Love — David Gray

Time of Your Life — Green Day

Titanium — David Guetta

Tonight (Best You Ever Had) — John Legend

Use Somebody — Kings of Leon

Viva La Vida — Coldplay

Why I Love You — Major

Without You — David Guetta

Wonderwall — Oasis

Yellow — Coldplay

You and I — John Legend

You Are the Best Thing — Ray LaMontagne

You Sang To Me — Marc Anthony

Young and Beautiful — Lana Del Rey

Young Forever — Jay-Z

Christian Music

In addition to the ones listed here, many Christian music selections are possible, including modern praise songs and hundreds of hymns. It will vary by ensemble. Please ask!

All songs (from the book “SANCTUARY”) — Twila Paris

Amazing Grace — John Newton

Be Thou My Vision

Goodness of God — Bethel Music

Grateful — Elevation Worship

Many traditional church songs and hymns

On Eagle’s Wings — Michael Joncas

Pie Jesu — Fauré

Selections (from Messiah) — Handel

The Lord’s Prayer — Albert Hay Malotte

The Prayer — ANDREA BOCELLI

Way Maker — Sinach

We Dance — Bethel Music

You Raise Me Up — Josh Groban

Jewish Music

In addition to the ones listed here, many Jewish traditional music selections are possible. It will vary by ensemble. Please ask!

Dodi Li

Erev Ba

Erev Shel Shoshanim

Lecha Dodi

Ma Navu

Many traditional Jewish songs

Mi Bon Siach

Mitachat Lashamayim (Under the Sky) — David Broza

Od Yishama

Siman Tov U Mazel Tov

Yerushalayim Shel Zahav

Irish/Celtic Music

In addition to the ones listed here, many Irish/Celtic music selections are possible, including folk songs and jigs. It will vary by ensemble. Please ask!

Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms

Give Me Your Hand

Haste to the Wedding — The Corrs

Highland Cathedral — Band of the Royal Irish Regiment

Irish Wedding Song — Ian Betteridge

Lark in the Clear Air

Mairi’s Wedding

Many traditional folk tunes, jigs, and reels

Morghan Meaghan

O Danny Boy

Si Bheag Si Mor, Carolan’s Welcome, Carolan’s Concerto (from Folk tunes) — TURLOUGH O’CAROLAN

More Beautiful Wedding Music

Beautiful — Crush

Con Te Partirò / Por Ti Volare / Time To Say Goodbye — ANDREA BOCELLI

Dearly Beloved (from Kingdom Hearts) — Yoko Shimomura

Only Time — Enya

River Flows in You, May Be, Love Me, Kiss the Rain (from Piano compositions) — YIRUMA

Tenderness in the Air, Aerith’s Theme, To Zanarkand (from FINAL FANTASY) — Nobuo Uematsu

Bollywood Songs

Amplifier

Chinna Chinna Aussi

Chura Liya Hai Tumne

Dhadak

Dil Diyan Gallan

Dil Luteya

Dilbaro

Humko Hamise Chura Lo

Jai Ho (from Slumdog Millionaire)

Jeena Jeena

Kal Ho Na Ho

Kangna Tera Ni

Khaab

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

Lag Ja Gale

Main Tenu Samjhawan

Mundiyan

Pe Loon

Pehla Nasha

Sau Aasmaan

Suit Suit

Tere Liye

Teri Meri

Tujh Mein Rab Dikhta Hai

Tum Hi Ho

Zaalima

Popular and Contemporary Music

A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes (from Cinderella)

A Thousand Years — Christina Perri

A Whole New World (from Aladdin)

All I Ask of You (from Phantom of the Opera)

All of Me — John Legend

All You Need Is Love — The Beatles

At Last — Etta James

Beautiful Day — U2

Best Day of My Life — American Authors

Bittersweet Symphony — The Verve

Bless the Broken Road — Rascal Flatts

Can You Feel the Love Tonight (from The Lion King) — Elton John

Can You Read My Mind (from Superman)

Can’t Help Falling in Love — Elvis Presley

Chasing Cars — Snow Patrol

Con Te Partirò / Por Ti Volare / Time To Say Goodbye — ANDREA BOCELLI

Despacito — Luis Fonsi

Don’t Stop Believing — Journey

Everything I Do (I Do It for You) — Bryan Adams

Falling Slowly (from Once) — The Vitamin String Quartet

Fields of Gold — Sting

For the Love of a Princess (from Braveheart)

From the Ground Up — Dan + Shay

From This Moment — Shania Twain

Gabriel’s Oboe (from The Mission) — Ennio Morricone

Glasgow Love Theme (from Love Actually)

God Only Knows — The Beach Boys

Hallelujah (from Shrek) — Leonard Cohen

Have I Told You Lately — Van Morrison

Here Comes the Sun — The Beatles

Ho Hey — The Lumineers

Home - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes — Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes

Hoppípolla — Sigur Rós

How Deep Is Your Love — Bee Gees

How Far I’ll Go (from Moana)

How Sweet It Is — James Taylor

I Choose You — Sara Bareilles

I Don’t Want To Miss a Thing — Aerosmith

I Had a Farm in Africa (from Out of Africa)

I See the Light (from Tangled)

I Won’t Give Up — Jason Mraz

I’m Yours — Jason Mraz

Ice and Fire (from Game of Thrones)

In Your Eyes — Peter Gabriel

Isn’t She Lovely — Stevie Wonder

Just the Way You Are — Bruno Mars

Kiss from a Rose — Seal

Kiss the Girl (from The Little Mermaid)

La Vie en Rose — Édith Piaf

Let’s Stay Together — Al Green

Love Me Like You Do — Ellie Goulding

Love Story — Taylor Swift

Lover — Taylor Swift

Make You Feel My Love — Bob Dylan

Married Life (from UP)

Marry Me — Train

Marry You — Bruno Mars (Please check the lyrics before you choose this song.)

Moon River (from Breakfast at Tiffany’s)

My Girl — The Temptations

O Danny Boy

One Hand, One Heart (from West Side Story)

Only Time — Enya

Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz) — Harold Arlen

Perfect — Ed Sheeran

Portuguese Love Theme (from Love Actually)

Prime Minister’s Love Theme (from Love Actually)

Rhiannon — Stevie Wonder

Say You Won’t Let Go — James Arthur

September — Earth Wind & Fire

Shape of You — Ed Sheeran

Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours — Stevie Wonder

Somewhere Only We Know — Keane

Speechless — Dan + Shay

Starlight — Muse

Storybook Love (from The Princess Bride)

Tale As Old As Time (from Beauty and the Beast) — Alan Menken

The Prayer — ANDREA BOCELLI

The Rose — Bette Midler

The Wedding Song (There Is Love) — Peter, Paul & Mary

Thinking Out Loud — Ed Sheeran

This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) — Natalie Cole

Titanium — David Guetta

Unchained Melody — The Righteous Brothers

Use Somebody — Kings of Leon

Viva La Vida — Coldplay

What a Wonderful World — Louis Armstrong

When You Wish Upon a Star (from Pinocchio)

Wonderwall — Oasis

Wouldn’t It Be Nice — The Beach Boys

Yellow — Coldplay

You Raise Me Up — Josh Groban

You’re My Best Friend — Queen

You’re the First, the Last, My Everything — Barry White

Young and Beautiful — Lana Del Rey

Your Song — Elton John