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 vocal duet and piano (low key)
for: 2 voices (medium, low), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 611104
Last Respects
for: 4 brass instruments
Score, Parts
Item no.: 550554
50 Solo Songs for Special Occasions from Weddings to Funerals for Medium
for: Voice (medium/low), piano [organ]
Music score (anthology), online audio
Item no.: 562699
from Gloria Patri
24 hymns for mixed choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 295460
aus der Bühnenmusik zu Kuolema
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 292317
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 549366
für Singstimme, Streichquartett, Harfe und Orgel
Fassung für hohe Stimme und Orgel; dient auch als Orgel- und Gesangsstimme bei Aufführungen mit Ensemble
for: Voice (high), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 289681
for: Voice (soprano), violin, organ
Item no.: 377880
over a Basso Ostinato
for Organ
for: Organ
Single edition
Item no.: 136945
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 289885
Die Carus-Neuausgabe dieses Werkes enthält die Chorfuge Nr. 6, die in Mendelssohns Autograph zu finden ist und auch bei der Uraufführung musiziert wurde.
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 205041
Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NBA) II/5 (Gesamtausgabe, Urtextausgabe) (Complete edition, Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 215847
for piano
for: Piano
Item no.: 312363
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; percussion ad lib.
Organ reduction
Item no.: 686487
Early version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 444394
Azione sacra
Erstausgabe
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 237396
Cantata for funeral service / Purification of Mary.
Reconstruction Klaus Hofmann
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233914
Über die Nicht- und Flüchtigkeit des menschlichen Lebens.
Kantate zum 24. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
Urtext Telemann-Archiv – Stuttgarter Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 423885
BWV 244
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach Ausgaben
Klavierauszug mit deutschem und englischem Text
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 618712
Music for Strings
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 176724
for: Concert band [youth concert band]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1319378
Die Konzertgitarre
for: Guitar
Item no.: 1655314
for: Horn, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 626830
first movement from 'Stabat Mater' arranged for Low Flute Choir
Music for Low Flutes – The Bottom Line Series
for: Flute ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 682700
in freier Neugestaltung
for: Alt und Orchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 351221
for: Recorder Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 274070
(3 Violinen und Generalbass)
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 215629
for: 5 trumpets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 216715
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 477543
Trauermusik für 6 Bläser
for: Brass ensemble (6 voices)
Set of parts
Item no.: 313680
Motette nach Psalm 90 für achtstimmigen Doppelchorop. 97
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 612574
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 429243
Feierliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 263764
Cor Et Piano
for: Horn, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 266883
Horn, Posaune und Tuba
Partitur und Stimmen
for: KAMMERMUSIK BLECHBLASINSTRUMENTE QUINTETTE
Score, Parts
Item no.: 290271
Partitur
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR A CAPPELLA GEISTLICH ALBEN
Score
Item no.: 582916
for: Double bass, piano
Item no.: 140985
Opus 17
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 144688
for: Harmonium [organ manuals]
Item no.: 147693
Passionsmotetten für sechsstimmigen gemischten Chor
Chorpartitur mit unterlegtem Klavierauszug zu Probenzwecken
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 678371
pour orgue
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 659958
for Violin and Piano
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 682689
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Organ
Stimme, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 369618
Bärenreiter-Chorblätter 14
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 117837
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 122319
Hector Berlioz. New Edition of the Complete Works (NBE) 19
for: Orchestra; mixed choir (SSTTBB) ad lib.
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116886
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 333781
for: Voice, piano
Songbook
Item no.: 345126
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