Repertoire

Arrangements and Compositions by Tom Palof

Classical

  • The Niece Preludes - Monica's Wedding:
      - ALLA DANZA (Hornpipe) from “The Water Music” of George Frederic Handel (1685-1759)
      - Lasst Uns Erfreuen, Geistliche Kirchengesänge
      - Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, Johann Sebastian Bach

  • The Niece Preludes - Monica's Wedding:
      - ARIA: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
      - HYFRYDOL: Rowland H Prichard (1881-1887)

  • The Niece Preludes - Monica's Wedding:
      - HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING?
      - Robert Lowry (1826-1899); revised text by Tom Palof
      - O WALY WALY (Lyrics by Tom Palof)
    SIMPLE GIFTS (Joseph Brackett 1797-1882)

  • The Niece Preludes - Maria's Wedding:
      - AVE MARIA:  Franz Schubert, Op. 52, No.6
      - SALVE REGINA COELITUM: Melchior Ludwig's Choralmelodien zum Heiligen Gesänge, 1808

  • The Niece Preludes - Hannah's Wedding:
      - O WALY WALY
      - Haste to the Wedding (18th century jig tune of Scottish & Irish Traditions)
      - Hannah’s Song (Dan & Mary Beth Palof, Tales of the Watery Road © 1998)

  • For Mom & Dad’s 60th Wedding Anniversary - By Tom Palof
      - Aisle (Processional), Altar (Meditation), Bells (Recessional)

  • The Niece Preludes - Kendra's Wedding:
      - New World Symphony -by Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
      - NICAEA setting  by John B Dykes, 1861

  • Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
            Lyrics: 1st verse by Ben Johnson (1616), 2nd verse by Tom Palof (2021)
            Melody: Attributed to Colonel R Mellish (1777-1817)
    Brandenburg Concerto BWV 1048 No. 3, 3rd movement, by Johann Sebastian Bach (1721)

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    - Prelude I from The Well-Tempered Clavier (Book I)
    - Cello Suite No.1 in G Major
    Tom Palof
    - What Brings Me Joy

  • Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) (Primo – Violin & Cello)
    Minuet in G major & Minuet in G minor from the notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach
    Tom Palof (Secondo – Piano, arrangement)

  • Primo (Violin & Cello): by Johann Sebastain Bach (1685-1750)
    Invention VIII
    Polonaise (from 'The Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach')
    Secondo (Piano): Counterinvention VIII by Tom Palof

  • Johann Sebastian Bach ‘Invention XIII’ (1685-1750) (Primo)
    Tom Palof: ‘Counterinvention XIII’ (Secondo)

  • George Frideric Handel - Suite in F major (HWV 348) - Water Music - 5.AIR, 6.Menuet
    Frédéric Chopin - Raindrop Prelude, op.28, No.15

  • The Niece Preludes - Clare's Wedding:
      - Wedding Variation No.2 - Tom Palof
      - I Adore Thee Humbly - St. Thomas Aquinas, SOLESMES Melody
      - Holy God We Praise Thy Name - Ignza Franz, Robert J Powell

  • The Niece Preludes - Clare's Wedding:
      - Heritage - by Tom Palof (from Simple Celebrations), 2001
      - Claire de lune - by Claude Debussy, 1890

  • La Réjouissance by George Friedrich Handel
    Trumpet Voluntary by Jeremiah Clarke
    Jean-Joseph Mouret: Rondeau from "Sinfonie de Fanfares"
         (PBS Masterpiece Theater theme song)

  • Thaxted  Hymn Tune - by Gustav Holst
    Enigma Variation IX (Adagio) "Nimrod"

Standards

  • Love Me Tender - Words and Music by Elvis Presley and Vera Matson/Ken Darby
    Can't Help Falling in Love - Words and Music by George David Weiss, Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore
    Unchained Melody - Lyrics by Hy Zaret, Music by Alex North

  • I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You - Music by George Bassman (1932)
    The Nearness of You – Music by Hoagy Carmichael (1937)

  • Little Turning Air - Tom Palof
    I Love You Truly - Carrie Jacobs-Bond (1901)
    Londonderry Air  - Irish Traditional (1855) (aka Danny Boy)

  • The Niece Preludes - Rosie's Wedding:
      - Wedding Varation 01 - Tom Palof
      - Tabhair Dom Do Lámh by Ruairi Dall O’Cathain (1603)
         (also known as Give Me Your Hand)
      - Red is the Rose - Traditional Irish ballad

  • The Niece Preludes - Rosie's Wedding:
      - Wedding Carousel - Tom Palof (2023)
      - My Wild Irish Rose - Chauncey Olcott (1899)
      - Grains of Wood - Dan & Mary Beth Palof (1998)
      - Red is the Rose - Traditional Irish ballad

  • The Niece Preludes - Rosie's Wedding:
      - The Lovers' Waltz - Jay Ungar and Molly Mason
      - One More Pull - The Wellermen

  • Irish Waltz no.1 - Tom Palof
    When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
     - Music by Ernst R Ball, Lyrics by Chauncey Olcott and Geo. Graff Jr
    Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral - Lyrics and Music by J R Shannon

  • By Bart Howard
    (slow & fast improv, jazz feel)

  • Elton John and Bernie Taupin

  • Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Op.46: I. Morning Mood - Edvard Grieg
    Here Comes the Sun - Beatles - Words and Music by George Harrison

  • By Bob Thiele and George Weiss

  • La Vie en Rose
    - Lyrics: Written by Edith Piaf.
    - Music: Composed by Louiguy (also known as Louis Guglielmi)

    Till There Was You
    - Meredith Willson

  • Over the Rainbow: Music by Harold D Arlen, Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg
    Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 (“Pathétique”),
           II. Adagio cantabile by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)

  • Words and Music by Alexander Warren Hughes,
    Caleb Shapiro, Adam Yaron, and Margaret Elizabeth Chapman

Christmas Time / Holidays

  • We Three Kings of Orient Are - John H. Hopkins, 1857
    Ring, Christmas Bells (Ukrainian Carol) -  M. L. Hohman, M. Leontovich
    March of the Three Kings - M.L Hohman, Provencal, 13th Century

  • The Niece Preludes - Angela's Wedding (A Christmastime Wedding Prelude):

    Angels from the Realms of Glory:
                   James Montgomery, 1816, Henry Smart, 1866
    Hymn to Joy: Ludwig Van Beethoven
    Angels We Have Heard on High: Traditional

  • The Infant King - by Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould
    Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella - Traditional

  • The Niece Preludes - Angela's Wedding (A Christmastime Wedding Prelude):

    Wexford Carol – Traditional Irish
    Wedding Jig Carols – Tom Palof

  • By Johnny Marks
    (slow improv/jazz feel)

  • Gesù Bambino (O Come, All Ye Faithful) - Pietro A. Yon
    O Holy Night - Adolphe Adam

  • People Look East - Words by Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965) - Besancon Carol
    Good Christian Men, Rejoice - Anonymous, 1300 Tr. by John M. Neale, 1853 - German Melody, 14th Century
    Here We Come a-Caroling - Traditional - English Wassail Song
    I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day - Henry W. Longfellow, 1863,  J.Baptiste Calkin

  • Minuet in G major & Minuet in G minor - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
     (from the notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach)
    The Holly and The Ivy - Traditional
    I Saw Three Ships - Traditional
    And the Glory of the Lord - George Fredrick Handel

  • Lullay, Thou Little Tiny Child - Robert Croo (1534), English Melody (1591)
    What Child Is This?  - William C. Dix, Old English Air

  • O Come, All Ye Faithful (J Reading, 1692)
    Oh, How Joyfully (J. Falk, 1810)
    Angels We Have Heard on High (Old French Song)

  • The Niece Preludes - Angela's Wedding (A Christmastime Wedding Prelude):

    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Christmas Oratorio - BWV 248 - Sinfonia
    Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Cantaia No. 147

  • Christmas Waltz - Lyrics by Sammy Cahn, Music by Jule Styne
    Waltz of the Flowers - Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky

  • The First Noel - French 18th Century
    Silent Night - Joseph Möhr, Franz Grüber, 1818

  • By Hugh Matin and Ralph Blaine
    (slow & fast improv, jazz feel)

  • George Frideric Handel
    - Messiah*, For Unto Us a Child is Born
    - Joy to the World (music attributed to Handel, authored by Isaac Watts in 1719)
    - Messiah*, Hallelujah Chorus
    - Messiah*, Amen
    (*HWV 56, 1741)

  • It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

    - by Edmund H Sears (1850), Richard S. Willis (1851)

    Still, Still, Still - based on an Austrian melody

  • Traditional – English Folk Song

Wedding Ceremony

  • Most the of the repertoire can work as a processional, but here are specially arranged pieces for flexible durations (dependent on the length of the wedding party):


    Prelude & Suite I - Bach
    Hymne - Vangelis
    Air, Raindrop Prelude - Bach/Chopin
    Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
    Falling In Love on the Broken Road
    Alla Danza Joy of Mans Desiring

  • Response: Blest Are Those Who Love You - Marty Haugen
    Response: The Lord is Kind and Merciful - Marty Haugen
    Alleluia: Celtic Alleluia - Fintan O'Carroll

  • By Marty Haugen (Cantor Required) Catholic Mass Setting:
    - Gloria
    - Holy Holy Holy
    - Memorial Acclamation (When We Eat This Bread)
    - Amen
    - Lamb of God

  • Votum Vovit - Tom Palof

    Irish Wedding Bells - Dudley Peele

    Wedding Music - #3 - C. Rossini

    Wedding March - Felix Mendelssohn

    La Réjouissance by George Friedrich Handel

    Trumpet Voluntary by Jeremiah Clarke

  • Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing (The Niece Preludes - Clare's Wedding:
      - NETTLETON tune
      - Lyrics & arrangement by Tom Palof)

    God of All Living

    Hear Us Now, Our God and Father

    O God Beyond All Praising

    The Servant Song

    Taste and See

Funeral / Celebration of Life

  • Tune: AMAZING GRACE, 19th-century melody
    Tune: PRECIOUS LORD

  • God that Madest Earth and Heaven
    Reginald Heber (1827), Richard Whately
    Tune: AR HYD Y NOS

  • BEACH SPRING, From the Sacred Harp, 1844
    Based off Marty Haugen's keyboard accompaniment (1985)
         'God of Day and God of Darkness'

  • Thaxted  Hymn Tune - by Gustav Holst
    Enigma Variation IX (Adagio) "Nimrod"

  • Words and Music by STUART K. HINE

  • HYFRYDOL - Rowland H. Prichard, 1811-1887
    GROSSE GOTT - Katholisches Gesangbuch, Vienna, ca. 1774

  • The Niece Preludes - Kendra's Wedding (by Tom Palof):
      - New World Symphony -by Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
      - NICAEA setting  by John B Dykes, 1861

  • SLANE, Trad. Irish Melody
    Related Hymns:
    - Be Thou My Vision by Mary Elizabeth Byrne & Eleanor Hull
    - Lord of All Hopefulness by Jan Struther, 1901-1953

  • The Niece Preludes - Maria's Wedding (by Tom Palof):
      - AVE MARIA:  Franz Schubert, Op. 52, No.6
      - SALVE REGINA COELITUM: Melchior Ludwig's Choralmelodien zum Heiligen Gesänge, 1808

  • Ola Gjeilo

Originals

  • For Mom & Dad’s 60th Wedding Anniversary - By Tom Palof
      - Aisle (Processional), Altar (Meditation), Bells (Recessional)

  • From 'Simple Celebrations' Piano Solo CD (2001)
    Composition, Performance, and Trio Arrangement (2025) by Tom Palof

  • From 'Simple Celebrations' Piano Solo CD (2001)
    Composition, Performance, and Trio Arrangement (2024) by Tom Palof

  • From 'Simple Celebrations' Piano Solo CD (2001)
    Composition, Performance, and Trio Arrangement (2024) by Tom Palof

  • From 'Simple Celebrations' Piano Solo CD (2001)
    Composition, Performance, and Trio Arrangement (2024) by Tom Palof