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:
für Soli, gem Chor und Orchester (1692)
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 642046
Funeral Anthem
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 486499
für Soli, Chor, Ensemble und Orgel (1989, rev. 1992)
Diese Komposition wurde beauftragt vom Festival d'Eté in Rouen und 1989 ebendort uraufgeführt.
for: Soloists, mixed choir, ensemble, organ
Score
Item no.: 184760
Solo für C, Bb, F oder Eb-Instrument mit Blasorchester
Moderne Bearbeitung
for: Melody instrument (C/B-flat/E-flat/F), concert band
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 487294
Neue geistliche Lieder für Blasorchester
for: Concert band; voice ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1558271
Young Band
for: Youth concert band
Item no.: 375625
Tenor Saxophone & Streicher
for: Tenor saxophone, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591373
for: Clarinet, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591312
Vibraphone & Streicher
for: Vibraphone, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591281
Euphonium & Streicher
for: Euphonium, strings
Sheet music
Item no.: 591343
Bass Posaune & Streicher
for: Bass trombone, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591251
Fagott & Streicher
for: Bassoon, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 596920
für Violine und Streichorchester
Partitur und Stimmen (solo-10-8-3--6-4-3)
for: Violin, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 596869
Tuba & Streicher
for: Tuba, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 596951
Oboe Solo
for: Oboe, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 596898
Violoncello & Streicher
for: Cello solo, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 591266
Posaune & Streicher
for: Trombone, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 596935
Trompete & Streicher
for: Trumpet, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591327
Klavier Solo
for: Viola, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 591295
Flute & Streicher
for: Flute, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 596904
Alto Saxophone & Streicher
for: Alto saxophone, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 591358
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 373867
Denkmäler der Musik In Baden Württemberg
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 656026
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 462472
erste kritische Edition
Musique sacrée française – Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 584569
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1632572
in der Bearbeitung von Heinrich Ritter von Spengel (1852)
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 1012535
für Sopran oder Tenor oder Melodieinstrument (C,B,Es,F) solo
for: Voice [melody instrument (C/B-flat/E-flat/F)], concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 667760
Schubert, Diabelli, Beethoven
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 301958
for: Concert band
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 431533
for: Concert band; voice ad lib.
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 1563621
Kontrafaktur für kleines Orchester (1983)
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 264629
For Strings op. 11
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 395389
Passion cantata KV 42 (35a)
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 1317299
Trauermusik für Bassett-Klarinette und Streichquartett
for: Basset clarinet (A), 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 674669
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 433981
Bosworth Amateur School Orchestra Series
for: Flexible ensemble (school orchestra)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 362751
Klassik
for: Viola, piano
Book
Item no.: 145706
Suite d'Orchestre
for: Symphonic orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 658676
Trauermusik
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 661373
Tuba & Streicher
for: Tuba, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 596950
Posaune & Streicher
for: Trombone, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 596934
Funeral March
BOVACO Classic CB
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1015344
Fagott & Streicher
for: Bassoon, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 596919
Bass Posaune & Streicher
for: Bass trombone, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591250
for: Clarinet, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591311
Tenor Saxophone & Streicher
for: Tenor saxophone, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591372
Violoncello & Streicher
for: Cello solo, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 591265
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