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: 3 violins, basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 737643
for: 3 violins, basso continuo
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 724929
aus "Messe in B-Dur"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751943
op. 9/3
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 751888
for: gemischter Chor (SAATTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 742358
for: Frauenchor (SSAA) a cappella, 2 Soli (SA) ad libitum
Choir score
Item no.: 751713
op. 22/1
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 733559
for: Kinderchor (Mez) mit Männerchor (TTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 742604
Choralsatz
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 742617
Schlusschoral aus der Johannes-Passion
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751725
Motette
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751860
"Wenn wir auch dürftig hausen"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742689
(Johannes Jourdan)
for: gemischter Chor und Melodie-Instrument ad lib.
Music score
Item no.: 733561
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753812
for: gleiche Stimmen (SMezA)
Choir score
Item no.: 742592
"Es will das Licht des Tages scheiden"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733371
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742443
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730725
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 740071
for: 3 violins, basso continuo
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 752097
aus der Schauspielmusik zu Ibsens "Peer Gynt" (Klavierfassung des Komponisten, op. 46, Nr.2)
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1251
Meditation über das erste Präludium aus dem Wohltemperierten Klavier von Johann Sebastian Bach
bearbeitet für Chor und Klavier
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 2667
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2569
aus der Sonate Nr. 2, op. 35
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 4593
pour Voix et Orgue
for: Voice (high), organ [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1904
pour Voix et Orgue
for: Voice (low), organ [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1988
aus: "École d'Orgue, Deuxième Partie" (Nr. 10)
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 4532
for: Voice (low), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1847
aus "Harmonies poétiques et religieuses"
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1371
op. 22, Nr. 2
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 4014
op. 19b
für Singstimme und Orgel
for: Voice (medium), organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2454
bearbeitet für Violine und Viola
for: Violin, viola
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 3361
aus "Sechs religiöse Gesänge", op. 157 (Nr. 6)
for: Voice (high), organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2413
Transkription des 3. Satzes der Klaviersonate As-Dur (op. 26) von L. van Beethoven
for: Guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1742
for: Voice (medium/high), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1845
aus "Sechs religiöse Gesänge", op. 157 (Nr. 6)
for: Voice (medium), organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2412
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 1468
for: Voice (high), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1819
aus "Sechs religiöse Gesänge", op. 157 (Nr. 6)
for: Voice (low), organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2411
for: Voice (medium/low), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1846
pour Voix et Orgue
for: Voice (medium), organ [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1905
(liturgisch)
for: Frauenchor (SSMezA)
Choir score
Item no.: 751716
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733390
Edition Schott
for: Tenor-Blockflöte und Cembalo (Klavier)
Music score
Item no.: 734900
Ellens dritter Gesang (Hymne an die Jungfrau), aus Walter Scotts "Fräulein vom See"
D. 839 (op. 52, Nr. 6)
for: Voice (high), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2222
für Alt und Klavier, Orgel oder Harmonium
for: Voice (alto), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 3040
for: Cello [bassoon], piano
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1852
für Singstimme und Klavier (Orgel)
for: Voice (medium), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 2326
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