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: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 725808
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
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Item no.: 725811
for: gemischter Chor und Orgel
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Item no.: 753814
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
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Item no.: 725842
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
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Item no.: 725820
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
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Item no.: 725850
for: Mixed choir a cappella
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Item no.: 744752
for: Mixed choir a cappella
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Item no.: 744751
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
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Item no.: 725856
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 725810
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
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Item no.: 755723
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
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Item no.: 741143
for: Mixed choir a cappella
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Item no.: 730714
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
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Item no.: 755720
for: Mixed choir a cappella
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Item no.: 733557
Kanon zu 3 Stimmen
for: Women's choir a cappella
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Item no.: 725844
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
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Item no.: 755736
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 725807
for: Mixed choir a cappella
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Item no.: 730719
Str. 1: aus den Psalmen 55, 108,25; Str. 2: Klaus Heizmann
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
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Item no.: 755730
for: Mixed choir a cappella
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Item no.: 753817
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
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Item no.: 741151
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
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Item no.: 725822
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
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Item no.: 725812
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
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Item no.: 725852
Str. 1: aus den Psalmen 55, 108,25; Str. 2: Klaus Heizmann)
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
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Item no.: 743645
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 755718
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 755722
Kanon zu 3 Stimmen
for: Male choir
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Item no.: 725815
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
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Item no.: 741129
Psalm 121,1-3
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
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Item no.: 725849
Offenbarung 14,13
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 741136
op. 64/4
for: Mixed choir a cappella
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Item no.: 733562
for: Mixed choir a cappella
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Item no.: 730721
(Johannes Jourdan)
for: gemischter Chor, Flöte und Tasteninstrument
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Item no.: 730724
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
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Item no.: 725806
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
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Item no.: 725839
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
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Item no.: 725814
for: Mixed choir a cappella
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Item no.: 730716
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
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Item no.: 725846
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
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Item no.: 741132
for: Mixed choir a cappella
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Item no.: 730711
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
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Item no.: 741134
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
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Item no.: 725826
Offenbarung 14,13
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
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Item no.: 725855
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
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Item no.: 613133
für Frauenchor a cappella (Orgel ad lib)
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
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Item no.: 613134
Bearbeitung für Männerchor
for: Male choir
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Item no.: 556876
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