bridal chorus
Aisle processional music
The bridal chorus is the wedding march from Wagner's opera *Lohengrin*, traditionally played as the bride walks down the aisle.
Its opening notes—Here comes the bride—are instantly recognizable in Western culture.
The term sometimes refers generically to any processional music at a wedding ceremony.
- wedding ceremonyRitual joining two spouses
- wedding dayDay of marriage
- WagnerGerman Romantic opera composer
- opera houseVenue for staged singing
- white dressPale-hued women's garment
melody · wedding march · Mendelssohn · groom · tradition · harmony · romanticism · classical music · orchestration · matrimony · tempo · symbolism · vows · motif · union · celebration · wedding reception · instrumentation
- celebration musichappy birthday, wedding march, graduation march, anniversary waltz, first dance song
- Wedding Musicwedding march, wedding song, first dance, processional, recessional
- processional musicwedding march, funeral march, recessional, entrance music, graduation march
- wedding ritesexchange of rings, ring exchange, vows, pronouncement, declaration
- Wagner OperasRichard Wagner, Wagner, Siegfried, Parsifal, Tristan
life event ceremony
bridal chorusfuneral march
Music accompanying a coffin
funeral dirge · death march · requiem · elegy · taps
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