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:
aus den "Kinderszenen", op. 15
bearbeitet für Klarinette oder Trompete und Klavier
for: Clarinet (B-flat) [trumpet], piano
Piano score, solo part, audio file
Item no.: 1085
aus den "Kinderszenen", op. 15
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2141
35 Beautiful Pieces
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 758497
bearbeitet für Orgel
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2590
Arie aus der Matthäus-Passion
for: Voice (alto), piano
Music score
Item no.: 760457
Psalm 121,1-3
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725801
aus: "École d'Orgue, Deuxième Partie" (Nr. 10)
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 4532
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 750381
Music of Mourning
for: Viola (Violine, Violoncello) und Streichorchester
Orchestermaterial je 1 Violine 1, Violine 2, Bratsche, Violoncello, Kontrabass
Item no.: 733965
in freier Neugestaltung
for: Alt und Orchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 741264
for solo cello
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 752734
from 'Scenes of Childhood'
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 752831
from: Funeral Music for Queen Mary
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 4184
from: Funeral Music for Queen Mary
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 4554
Easy Arrangement for Piano
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 740262
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 750380
for Guitar solo
for: Guitar
Single edition
Item no.: 750804
aus "Il sesto libro de madrigali" (1615)
for: 5 recorders (AATTB)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1072
Edition Schott
for: Tenor-Blockflöte und Cembalo (Klavier)
Music score
Item no.: 734900
Psalm 121,1-3
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755728
from 'Scenes of Childhood'
for: Trumpet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 752834
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 734128
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725817
Edition Schott
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 750498
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725824
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 741135
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755745
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725858
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755746
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755719
"So schnell sind die Jahre vergangen"
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 734130
from Organ Symphony No. 6 "Martin Luther"
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 759269
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 734134
Music of Mourning
for: Viola (Violine, Violoncello) und Streichorchester
Study score
Item no.: 743586
aus der Schauspielmusik zu Ibsens "Peer Gynt" (Klavierfassung des Komponisten, op. 46, Nr.2)
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1251
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755741
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755729
op. 9/3
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 751888
Str. 1: aus den Psalmen 55, 108, 25; Str. 2: Klaus Heizmann
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725809
"Le Tombeau"
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 733042
for: gemischter Chor (SAATTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 742358
Edition Schott
for: gemischter Chor (SATB), Sopran-Solo und Orgel
Score
Item no.: 743119
Motette nach Psalm 90 für achtstimmigen Doppelchor
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 734149
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 741154
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 738752
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755735
Kanon zu 3 Stimmen
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725796
aus den "Kinderszenen", op. 15
bearbeitet für Flöte (Oboe, Violine) und Klavier
for: Flute [oboe/violin], piano
Piano score, solo part, audio file
Item no.: 2145