Suggested Music for Temple Rituals

The following pieces are suggested:

• Non-specific:
  • Glasonow: The Seasons
  • Haydn - Creation
  • Tchaikovsky - The Seasons
  • Verdi - The Seasons
  • Vivaldi - The Four Seasons.

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• Spring:
  • Beethoven - Spring Sonata, Sonata Nr. 5
  • Britten - Spring Symphony
  • Debussy - Printemps
  • Respighi - Spring, from Botticellian Triptych
  • Schumann - Symphony Nr. 1, Spring
  • Stravinsky - Rite of Spring
  • Strauss, Johann - Voices of Spring

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• Summer:
  • Beethoven - Symphony Nr. 6, Pastorale
  • Brahms - Symphony Nr. 2
  • Delius - Florida Suite; a Song of Summer, Summer Night on the River
  • D'Indy - Symphony on a French Mountain Air
  • Dvorak - Silent Woods
  • Sibelius - Synmphony Nr. 6
  • Vaughan Williams - Symphony Nr. 3, Pastoral

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• Autumn:
  • Grieg - Nocturne, from Lyric Suite
  • MacDowell - Autumn Leaves
  • Porter - New England Episodes
  • Prokofiev - Autumn
  • Strauss R. - From Italy
  • Vaughan Williams - Lark Ascending

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• Winter:
  • Bach - The Christmas Oratorio or Magnificat
  • Beethoven - Christ on the Mount of Olives
  • Berlioz - L'Enfance du Christ
  • Elgar - The Light of Life
  • Franck - Beatitudes or Panis Angelicus
  • Handel - Messiah
  • Mozart - Ave Verum Corpus
  • Respighi - Adoration of the Magi, from the Bottecellian Triptych
  • Schubert - Ave Maria
  • Vaughan Williams - The Sons of Light
  • Vivaldi - Gloria
  • Wagner - Prelude to Parsifal
  • Wagner - Prelude to Lohengrin

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• For Members' Entry:
  • Bach - Sanctus (from B-minor Mass)
  • Gluck - Dance of the Blessed Spirits
  • Gounod - Sanctus (from Misse Solennele)
  • Handel - Sinfonia from Messiah
  • Mozart - Requiem Introitus I
  • Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
  • Wagner - Prelude to Parzifal

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• For Processions:
  • Bach - Come Sweet Death (Toccata and Fugue, orchestral version)
  • Beethoven - Piano Concerto Nr. 5 (Emperor) second movement
  • Debussy - Engulfed Cathedral
  • Dvorak - Largo (from Symphony No. 9)
  • Elgar - Nimrod (from Enigma Variations)
  • Handel - Aria from Messiah: I know that my Redeemer liveth
  • Mozart - Lautdate Dominum from Vesperae Solennes de Confesore
  • Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 (slow movement)
  • Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

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• For Meditations:
  • Bach - Sheep may Safely Graze
  • Bach - Air on a G String
  • Barber -Adagio for Strings
  • Brahms - Lullaby Bruckner - Symphony Nr. 8, third movement.
  • Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 1, slow movement
  • Debussy - Revery
  • Debussy - Clair de Lune
  • Dvorak - Largo (from Symphony No. 9)
  • Faure - In Paradise (from Requiem)
  • Grieg - Nocturne (from Lyric Suite)
  • Handel - Largo (from Xerxes)
  • Herbert - Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life
  • Humperdinck - Children's Prayer (from Hansel and Gretel)
  • Massenet - Meditation (from Thais)
  • Mendelssohn - Song without Words
  • Pachelbel - Canon in D
  • Schubert - Ave Maria
  • Schumann - Traumerei (Dreams)
  • Wagner Evening Star (from Tannhauser)

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• For Dispersal:
  • Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D
  • Bach - Brandenburg Concertos
  • Beethoven - Symphony No. 6
  • Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor)
  • Berlioz - Hosanna (from L'Enfance du Christ)
  • Borodin - Nocturne for String Orchestra
  • Brahms - Symphony No. 2 (final movement)
  • Handel - Hallelujah Chorus (from Messiah)
  • Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2 (Finale)
  • Strauss Richard - Sunrise (from Thus Spoke Zarathustra)
  • Vivaldi - Gloria