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: Women's choir [male choir] (3 voices)
Item no.: 311870
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 471083
for: Sinstimme (hoch), Flöte, Orgel
Score
Item no.: 613135
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 181062
aus "Il sesto libro de madrigali" (1615)
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1874
Stille Trauer am heutgen Tag
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 271968
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 141498
for: Gemischter Chor
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 615991
for: gleiche Stimmen
Choir score
Item no.: 280976
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 560701
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 296461
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 610402
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 336545
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 350915
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 560702
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Item no.: 367273
aus: Responsoria in Coena Domini MH 276,1 (1778)
bearbeitet für dreistimmigen gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 670529
nicht lieferbar für Frankreich
for: Chor TTB, Orgel
Score
Item no.: 344242
op. posth. (1871)
für Männerchor und Orgel
for: Male choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 5745
Offertorium
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 4653
S 42 Nr. 2
Partitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), organ
Score
Item no.: 369365
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1655593
Scala enigmatica armonizzata a 4 voci miste dai "Quattro Pezzi Sacri"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1160
op. 9 Nr. 3
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423203
aus: Responsoria in Coena Domini MH 276,1 (1778)
bearbeitet für dreistimmigen gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 670538
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 166212
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 423716
S 42 Nr. 2
Partitur
for: Frauenchor (SSAA) / Männerchor (TTB), Orgel
Score
Item no.: 422994
eingerichtet für Männerchor (Original für gemischter Chor)
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 655494
für Männerchor
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 577174
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 210168
for: Male choir
Item no.: 218506
Textheft
Lyric book
Item no.: 235910
for: Male choir
Item no.: 1652838
for: 2 voices, organ
Item no.: 335967
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 348465
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
Choir score
Item no.: 423958
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 649895
Cantata for funeral service / Purification of Mary.
Reconstruction Klaus Hofmann
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233915
Marche funebre del Sig. Maestro Contrapunto, KV 453a
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 3606
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 202455
für gem. Chor und Orgel (Klavier)
for: Mixed choir, organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 622992
for: GCH (SAT/B)
Item no.: 297742
op. 100, Nr. 19
für Klavier
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2361
Cantata for funeral service / Purification of Mary.
Reconstruction Klaus Hofmann
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1671981
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 556115
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