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: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 257532
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 315907
for: Male choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 5745
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 4653
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 2667
for: Voice (medium), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 2326
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2181
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 347632
for: Voice, guitar
Score
Item no.: 334735
for: Voice (medium), piano
Item no.: 356151
for: Trumpet (C/B-flat/E-flat), organ
Item no.: 431271
for: Trumpet (C/B-flat/E-flat), piano
Item no.: 431586
for: Violine, Klavier und Orgel
Set of parts
Item no.: 295838
for: Voice a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 493748
for: Voice, guitar [accordion/keyboard]
Songbook
Item no.: 663610
for: Mixed choir, piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 139870
for: Voice (high), piano [organ]
Music score
Item no.: 334800
Collection Claude Delangle
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 143519
für Solo, Frauen- oder Jugendchor und Klavier
for: Soloist (soprano), women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 658444
für Sopran und Harfe
(enthält auch eine Bearbeitung für Sopran und Orgel)
for: Voice (soprano), harp [organ]
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 674644
for: Tuba, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 589018
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; trumpet/mandolin orchestra/rhythm group (accordion, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 244303
for: GES-H (S) KLAR ORG
Item no.: 242738
Raff works vol. 15/3 (Urtext, first edition)
for: Mixed choir (8 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 289852
Ausgabe ohne Solostimme
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 666441
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 590153
for: Tuba (E-flat)
Item no.: 332412
Eb Bass & Klavier
for: Tuba (E-flat), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 596408
für Euphonium und Klavier
for: Euphonium, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 596407
Faber New Choral Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 376369
for: Clarinet, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591311
Vibraphone & Streicher
for: Vibraphone, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591281
für Sopran (Tenor) und Orgel
for: Voice, organ
Organ score, Vocal score
Item no.: 662146
Brass Band
for: Cornet [violin], brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 595838
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 131727
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 550778
nach einem Motiv aus der dramatischen Kantate "Das Feuerkreuz"op. 61
for: Violoncello (Violine) und Klavier
Item no.: 357461
from "Three Sacred Songs"
for: Voice (high), piano
Single edition
Item no.: 658304
for: 2 voices, organ
Item no.: 335967
Musik aus Estland
Set of parts
Item no.: 619388
Meditation über das 1. Präludium von J. S. Bach
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 419642
for: Male choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 373447
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 326683
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 345526
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 187529
for: 2 pianos
Music score
Item no.: 456950
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 622956
for: Mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 469373
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