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 trombones (C)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1559174
from Sonata B-flat minor
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 748942
Schütz-Gesamteinspielung, Band 6
Audio-CD
Item no.: 677180
Schütz-Gesamteinspielung, Band 13
Audio-CD
Item no.: 677165
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 1655640
Fassung IV
Passio secundum Joannem
Postcard
Item no.: 1684651
based on the march from Henry Purcell's "Music for the funeral of Queen Mary II"
Concert and Contest Collection CBHA
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 679075
WAB 47,1/48
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1670392
Funeral March
BOVACO Classic CB
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1031452
Meditation about the first Prelude C major from "The Well-Tempered Clavier" by J.S. Bach
for: Violine (Violoncello) und Klavier; Harmonium und Violoncello II ad. lib.
Music score
Item no.: 724672
for violoncello and organ
for: Cello, organ
Music score
Item no.: 755243
for: Kinderchor (Mez) mit Männerchor (TTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 742604
(Trauer / Sorrow)
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 750705
for chorus and orchestra
for: Choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 747683
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Children's Choir [SSA] and Piano [Harp]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1654903
op. 15/7 und 85/12
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 749009
A-flat major
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 727544
Ästhetische, religiöse, gesellschaftliche Aspekte
ortus studien 18
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 1657560
for: Male choir (TTBB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1667195
2. O my love Theseus
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 755302
for: 3 violins, basso continuo
Einzelstimme Basso continuo
Item no.: 749093
für gemischten Chor (SSAATTBB) a cappella
for: gemischter Chor (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 736406
op. 97e, 2
for: gemischter Chor (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 750661
Choralsatz
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 742617
Funeral Music on Themes from "Euryanthe" by C. M. von Weber
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1193490
aus Wagners Götterdämmerung
for: 2 pianos
Music score
Item no.: 747480
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1200566
"Trauer"
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 740217
Trauermusik für Bläser
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part (anthology)
Item no.: 1559808
for: 2 trumpets [flugelhorns]
Item no.: 1559179
for: 3 clarinets (trio)
Item no.: 1559172
Trauermarsch
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1557269
F-Dur
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Organ reduction
Item no.: 1653781
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733390
Transcription de Mason James
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 1696584
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1632572
Edition Schott
for: Blasorchester oder Bläserensemble
Set of parts
Item no.: 750295
for: Viola [violin/cello], string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 678397
Meditation on the first Prelude C major from "The Well-Tempered Clavier"
for: Piano
Noten erleichtert
Item no.: 739469
Edition Schott
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 740013
Edition Schott
for: Alt (Bariton) und Klavier
Music score
Item no.: 741310
Edition Alfonso
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 733043
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
op. 72/2 (posth.)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 748946
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 1687873
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1652991
"Wenn wir auch dürftig hausen"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742689
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