Wedding Processional (from The Sound of Music)

4 star rating

Location: from Grand Blanc, Michigan

Difficulty Level:
Early intermediate

August 24, 2009

Almost the "real" music

Simon Couzins "transcription" of the processional is not bad; however, if you listen to the organ introduction from the movie soundtrack, you will notice a distinct difference between the track and Couzins intro--at least for the first seven/eight bars. Couzins' arrangement is his own and NOT from the original organ...

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5 star rating

Katharine,

Location: from London, UK

Difficulty Level:
Not sure

November 9, 2008

Music for our wedding

I ordered this for our church organist to play at our wedding so I'm not sure how difficult it is to play. It sounded beautiful!

18 of 34 people found this review helpful.

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4 star rating

Brian Larkin

Location: from Providence, RI

Difficulty Level:
Intermediate

October 1, 2008

Just like the movie

As an organist I've been asked to play this piece from time to time. The early version of it was a mish-mash arrangement that I had to rework and tack on a facsimile of the opener which was improvised for the movie. This is a decent transcription of the original...

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4 star rating

Ivan

Location: from Australia

Difficulty Level:
Intermediate

April 7, 2008

A faithful copy of the movie's music

Note for note, this is almost exactly what is heard in the Sound of Music as Maria walks down the aisle. It has one awkward page turn, has only four pages of music (plus front and back covers), and has what appears to be a DS al coda that doesn't...

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13 of 29 people found this review helpful.

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4 star rating

Daniel

Location: from Canada

Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced

February 28, 2008

Nice introduction to the wedding version of Maria

This is actually the organ introduction of the wedding scene version of "Maria" that was missing in the music book of vocal selections from "The Sound of Music". very interesting to have this part at last. It sounds great on the piano and on the organ.

19 of 31 people found this review helpful.

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