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:
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 257521
Ellens dritter Gesang (Hymne an die Jungfrau), aus Walter Scotts "Fräulein vom See"
D. 839 (op. 52, Nr. 6)
for: Voice (medium), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2221
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 1677833
from Walter Scott's "Fräulein vom See"
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 748991
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 315862
Novello Choral Pops
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 558731
für Alt (Bariton) und Klavier
for: Voice (low), piano
Item no.: 106100
33 Mariengesänge für gemischten Chor
for: Gemischter Chor (4-6)
Item no.: 306965
enthält das "Ave Maria" von Bach/Gounod und von Schubert in je acht Fassungen
for: Voice, piano [organ]
Music score
Item no.: 319201
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 471083
from 'Harmonies poétiques et religieuses'
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 256238
Musik Fuer Blechblaeser
for: Trumpet, organ
Item no.: 371282
pour voix et orgue
for: Voice, organ
Score
Item no.: 613025
Motette
for: Voice, Organ Accompaniment
Score
Item no.: 329475
Solos or Duets
Lieder - Songs - Gospels - Spirituals - Blues - Country - Folk - Popular Classics - Shanties - Oldies
for: 1–2 trumpets
Ensemble score
Item no.: 396456
4 Euphoniums
for: 4 euphoniums
Sheet music
Item no.: 596023
SCORE+PARTS
MORTIMER, J.G., ARR.
for: 4 trombones (quartet)
Sheet music
Item no.: 596022
Trompete & Streicher
for: Trumpet, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591326
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 590151
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 334533
Oper/Operette
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 185111
Ten Christmas songsfrom the Piano Guys for Cello solo
Hal Leonard Cello Play Along 9
for: Cello
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 675738
für Singstimme und Orgel (Klavier)
for: Voice, piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 659192
für gemischten Chor und Orgel
(2 Violinen und Kontrabass ad lib.)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; 2 violins, double bass ad lib.
Organ score
Item no.: 308066
for: Electric organ
Item no.: 353568
Fantasy on a Lied by Franz Schubert
for: Organ
Item no.: 619765
op. 63/7
for: Violine und Orgel
Score, solo part
Item no.: 635284
für gemischten Chor (SAATTBB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 603479
for: Singstimme (S/T) und Klavier
Music score
Item no.: 747728
for: Men's choir [women's chori] (3 equal voices ) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 172634
für Klavier
Easy Piano 27
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 194484
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 150126
for: tiefe Singstimme und Klavier; Violine (Violoncello) ad libitum
Item no.: 356510
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 560261
for: Descant recorder
Item no.: 148351
für Singstimme und Klavier (Orgel)
for: Voice (high), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 2325
aus Walter Scotts "Fräulein vom See"
for: Voice (low), piano
Item no.: 356152
for: Voice (high), organ
Item no.: 175162
for: Small wind band
Item no.: 168426
op. 621
for: für Gesang und Klavier
Item no.: 1669216
Klassik
for: Voice a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 1657383
nach einem Chanson von Jacob Arcadelt
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1195
für Männerchor mit Klavier-Begleitung (oder Rhythmus-Gruppe)
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 181459
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 1468
for: Alto saxophone, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 588947
for: Euphonium, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 589014
for: Sinstimme (hoch), Flöte, Orgel
Score
Item no.: 613135
Mélodie religieuse adaptée au 1er Prélude de J.S. Bach
for: Voice, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1678042
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