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: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 350915
Diabelli Anton + Schubert Franz + Beethoven Ludwig Van
for: Symphonic orchestra
Guitar (single part)
Item no.: 350529
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Item no.: 333315
"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
für Flöte und Klavier (+CD)
for: Flute, piano
Single part Flute, Playback-CD
Item no.: 666068
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 245576
Violin o Violonchelo y Piano
Item no.: 361178
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 560702
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 156676
op. 12
Stimmensatz
for: Women's choir (SSAA), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 235705
Schubert, Diabelli, Beethoven
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 301958
Ankündigung der Geburt Jesu. Evangeliendialog. Aus: Kleine geistliche Konzerte II
gleicher Notentext wie Sei gegrüßet Maria SWV 333
for: 2 soloists (SA), favorit choir (SSATB), 5 melodic instruments, organ
Score
Item no.: 231807
for: Baritone horn (C)
BASSSCHLUESSEL
Item no.: 461201
Lieder für Prozession und kirchliche Feste
for: Concert band
Single part Tuba 1 (C)
Item no.: 294853
Single part Flugelhorn 2
Item no.: 167050
Single part Flugelhorn 1
Item no.: 167049
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 740071
for: gemischter Chor und Orgel (Harmonium)
Score
Item no.: 201269
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
OTHER
Item no.: 263487
GeWV 43
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 212117
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 140323
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 138599
for: BLM INST
Item no.: 275104
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309402
Orgelwerke IV
Veröffentlicht auf CD: ERES-CD 03 (organ: Andres Uibo).
Estonian Music
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 389229
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Item no.: 367273
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 556115
for: KLAR-ES 1
Item no.: 227401
Solostimme (ohne Klavier)
for: Alto flute, piano
Single part Flute
Item no.: 666435
Solostimme (ohne Klavier) mit Playalong-CD
for: Clarinet, piano
Single part Clarinet; Playback-CD
Item no.: 666439
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 428066
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 248132
Edition Schultheiss
for: Voice (tenor), piano [organ]
Item no.: 433186
for: FCH (SA) KLAV (HA)
Item no.: 578781
for: GCH STR ORG (+ 2 HRN)
Score
Item no.: 336544
for: Tuba (B-flat)
Item no.: 261470
Single part Trumpet 2
Item no.: 246070
Single part Trombone 2 (C)
Item no.: 209200
Diabelli Anton + Schubert Franz + Beethoven Ludwig Van
for: Flexible ensemble
Single part Alto saxophone 1, 2
Item no.: 347267
Orgelstimme
Single part Organ
Item no.: 610403
Single part Horn 3
Item no.: 458691
Diabelli Anton + Schubert Franz + Beethoven Ludwig Van
for: Flexible ensemble
Clarinet 1, 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 326111
Meditation über das erste Praeludium von Johann Sebastian Bach
for: Salon orchestra
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 276005
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