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: SOLI GCH 2 FL 2 HRN
Score
Item no.: 491187
for: Voice (medium), string quartet [string orchestra]
Score
Item no.: 607360
for: 4 voices (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309669
for: Accordion orchestra
Score
Item no.: 126831
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 491425
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 319073
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 139871
for: Organ
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 296850
for: Flexible string ensemble and/or voice; piano [organ] ad lib.
Score (with piano part)
Item no.: 352182
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 609245
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 552555
for: Trumpet (C/B-flat/E-flat), organ
Item no.: 431273
for: Voice (medium/low), piano
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 1480
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1372
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1371
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321914
Musik aus Estland
Set of parts
Item no.: 619389
für 4 Blockflöten (SATB) Partitur und Stimmen
for: BFL QUARTETT (SATB)
Item no.: 656852
F-Dur
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Organ reduction
Item no.: 1653781
aus: Drei Kirchenmusiken
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 235644
for: Singstimme, Orgel / Harmonium
Item no.: 138016
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 158549
Musik Fuer Oboe
for: Oboe Klavier (HA/Orgel)
Item no.: 470802
für Trompete und Klavier
Collection Maurice André
for: Trumpet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 198942
Blasorchester
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 588392
Klavierausgabe (ohne Solostimme)
for: Flute, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 666465
5 Liedmeditationen für Flöte (Oboe) und Orgel
Solo–Time 64
for: Flute [oboe], organ
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 622984
for: Accordion
Item no.: 252836
Tuba & Streicher
for: Tuba, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 596951
Oboe Solo
for: Oboe, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 596898
for: Solo for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, Bass Trombone, Euphonium, Tuba, Eb Bass, Bb Bass, Violin, Viola or Violoncello & Concert Band
Sheet music
Item no.: 665186
Violoncello & Streicher
for: Cello solo, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 591266
Die schönsten Weihnachtslieder für Klavier
(mit Texten)
for: Piano
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 673322
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 228792
for: Melody instrument (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 112509
Universal Orgel Edition
for: Voice (medium), organ
Music score
Item no.: 136133
op. 97e, 2
for: gemischter Chor (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 750661
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Children's Choir [SSA] and Piano [Harp]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1654903
for: gemischter Chor (SATB), Sopran-Solo und Orgel
Choir score
Item no.: 578952
for: Women's choir (SSMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 289195
for: Cello, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 590147
for: Alt (Bariton) und Klavier
Item no.: 610522
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204992
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 376403
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 381360
for: Voice (mezzo-soprano), organ
Score
Item no.: 279001