Music has always played an important role in Funeral services. Browse our sheet music and scores, and let Stretta help you find the right music today.
Since the 13th century, clergymen have gathered in calendar brotherhoods on the calends, the first days of each month, to remember their deceased brothers. As at the funerals themselves, there was extensive singing. Later, choirs emerged from this ritual, to perform motets at funerals, in church or at the grave.
In addition to settings of Requiems, the Dutch composers of the 15th and 16th centuries wrote funeral motets to commemorate princes and rulers, which continued to spread across Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, with settings such as Handel’s Funeral Music for Queen Caroline, Musical Exequies by Heinrich Schütz and Purcells’s Funeral Music for Queen Mary. This began to expand into the secular world with works like Monteverdi’s Lamento d‘Arianna.
In France, the Sarabande was the most popular lament before the funeral march developed in the late 18th century. In the last century, new works such as dirges and epitaphs have entered the repertoire as expressions of mourning and grief.
Nowadays, pop or rock songs are often played at funerals. Here is a list of popular modern songs for funeral ceremonies:
for: 4 euphoniums
Sheet music
Item no.: 596023
for: 4 trombones (quartet)
Sheet music
Item no.: 596022
for: Men's choir [women's chori] (3 equal voices ) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 172634
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 256238
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 257521
for: Trumpet, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591326
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 590151
Edition Schott
for: Voice, piano [organ]
Music score
Item no.: 756362
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2361
for: Voice (high), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 2325
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part, audio file
Item no.: 1238
for: Voice (medium), organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2412
for: Voice, piano [organ]
Music score
Item no.: 319201
for: tiefe Singstimme und Klavier; Violine (Violoncello) ad libitum
Item no.: 356510
for: Trumpet, organ
Item no.: 371282
for: Voice (medium), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2221
from Walter Scott's "Fräulein vom See"
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 748991
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730725
for: Singstimme (S/T) und Klavier
Music score
Item no.: 747728
for: Mixed choir (SAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 603479
for: Voice (low), piano
Item no.: 356152
for: FCH ORCH (ORG)
Score
Item no.: 175444
for: Organ
Item no.: 619765
for: Voice, piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 659192
for: Voice (high), organ
Item no.: 175162
op. 621
for: für Gesang und Klavier
Item no.: 1669216
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 346002
für 1-2 Altblockflöten (Flöte) und Cembalo (Gitarre)
Flautando Edition
for: 2 treble recorders, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 671992
Edition Schultheiss
for: Voice (high), piano [organ]
Item no.: 311528
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; trumpet/mandolin orchestra/rhythm group (accordion, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 145021
Leuckart-Reprint
for: GES-T (A/BAR) KLAV
[latein, englisch]
Item no.: 166358
Collection Anacrouse
for: Voice, piano
Book
Item no.: 470826
für Orchester (Soli oder Chor ad lib)
for: Salon orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 184568
Der Musikalische Salon Vol. 30
for: Streichquartett, Kontrabass (ad libitum)
Score, part
Item no.: 475264
for: 2 Soprane (Sopran/Alt) und Orgel
Item no.: 1701272
for: Sinstimme (hoch), Flöte, Orgel
Score
Item no.: 613135
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 308250
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 424105
for: Singstimme (S), Orchester (2 Violinen, Viola, 2 Violoncelli)
Score
Item no.: 374100
for: Gemischter Chor
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 615992
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 324722
for: 2 Singstimmen (ST), 4 Posaunen, Basso continuo, [Singstimmen Chor SATTB]
Score
Item no.: 229804
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 257639
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 395229
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 258322
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 388484
for: Voice, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1678042
for: Solo S + Choir + piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317203
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