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:
Musik für Gottesdienst, Konzert und Unterricht
for: Organ
Music score (anthology), CD
Item no.: 684636
Leicht spielbare Stücke aus Barock, Klassik und Romantik
für Orgel (manualiter, Pedal ad lib.)
for: Organ (manuals, ped. ad lib)
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 630821
BWV 244
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116686
'Auch das Schöne muss sterben'
Breitkopf Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 350903
for vocal duet and piano (low key)
for: 2 voices (medium, low), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 611104
arranged for violin and piano
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 177765
25 best-loved pieces for funerals
for: Organ (manuals)
Music score
Item no.: 1582968
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
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung IV (1749) mit der unvollendeten Revision 1739 im Anhang
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 346649
Begräbnismusik in drei Teilen für Singstimmen und Basso continuo
Stuttgarter Schütz-Ausgabe Urtext
for: 8 voices (SSAATTBB), organ, bass; mixed choir (SSATTB), 6 melody instruments colla parte ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 423286
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben · Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, bassoon, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233890
50 Solo Songs for Special Occasions from Weddings to Funerals
for: Voice (high), piano [organ]
Music score (anthology), online audio
Item no.: 562698
Das Chorbuch für gemischte Stimmen
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 297599
Easily manageable and popular organ music pieces from the baroque, classical and romanticism periods
for: Organ
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 483337
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
Arrangiert für Violoncello und Klavier
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 356319
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB), 1-2 Trompeten, 3-2 Posaunen, Orgel, [Pauken]
Score
Item no.: 235638
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285500
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 192705
Святый
Text in kirchenslavisch (kyrillisch und transskribiert)
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), cello
Score
Item no.: 315658
Easily manageable and popular organ music pieces from the baroque, classical and romanticism periods
for: Organ
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 455979
Riduzione per Organo solo
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 388914
Die 100 schönsten Melodien von Klassik bis Pop, mittelschwer arrangiert
for: Piano
Music score (anthology), 3 CDs
Item no.: 370739
Rekonstruktion nach der Maurerischen Trauermusik
for: Male choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 241365
Musik unserer Zeit
for: Viola [violin/cello], string orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 288501
Suite d'Orchestre
Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 695811
Heft 3: Pfingsten – Ende des Kirchenjahres
for: Organ (manuals)
Music score
Item no.: 496508
For Strings op. 11
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 395390
Arranged for organ
With hammond registration.
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 277004
16-part Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 380350
Comfort and Hope in Song
36 old and new songs
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 419513
50 Best-loved Pieces for Organ
(manualiter)
for: Organ (manuals)
Music score
Item no.: 632901
aus der Bühnenmusik zu Kuolema
for: Piano
Item no.: 284280
Trauermotette nach den Klageliedern Jeremiae
für vier- bis siebenstimmigen gemischten Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir (4–7 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 119460
Ergreifende Trauermusik
for: Flexible wind ensemble (4 voices)
Set of parts
Item no.: 960612
Biblioteca Orgánica vol. 14
for: Organ manuals [harmonium]
Music score
Item no.: 366878
arranged for two trumpets in B-flat and piano
for: 2 trumpets (B-flat), piano
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 488744
Melodie der Welt (MDW)
for: Voice, piano [guitar/keyboard]
Single edition PVG (Piano/Vocal/Guitar)
Item no.: 635547
Trauermusik eines kunsterfahrenen Canarienvogels. Tragikomische Kantate
for: Mittlere Stimme, Violinen (2), Viola, Basso continuo
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 115131
Funeral music
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 661158
Fifty of the Best-Loved Pieces
spiral-bound
for: Organ
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 485457
12 neue Kleinorgel-Kompositionen für Trauer- und Trostanlässe
for: Organ (manuals)
Music score
Item no.: 631226
Rubank Solo-Ensemble Sheet
for: Flötenquartett
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1667173
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285525
Early version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 444394
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