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:
op. 100, Nr. 19
für Klavier
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2361
from Walter Scott's "Fräulein vom See"
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 748991
for: Singstimme (S/T) und Klavier
Music score
Item no.: 747728
nach einem Chanson von Jacob Arcadelt
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1195
Festliche Musik zu allen Gelegenheiten
for: Variable Besetzungsmöglichkeiten
Partitur = Klavier, Orgel, Harmonium
Item no.: 743264
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 1468
op. 52/6
for: Viola, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 726029
Edition Schott
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 726646
aus "Sechs religiöse Gesänge", op. 157 (Nr. 6)
for: Voice (low), organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2411
Edition Schott
for: Voice (medium), string quartet [string orchestra]
Score
Item no.: 756361
pour Voix et Orgue
for: Voice (medium), organ [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1905
Transcription for mixed choir a cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 750675
Ave Maria
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 725119
for: Kinderchor (Mez) mit Männerchor (TTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 742604
for: gemischter Chor (SATB), Sopran-Solo und Orgel
Choir score
Item no.: 751829
"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 (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 740071
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753815
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 743502
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 733558
"Ave, Marry"
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730717
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 733556
for: gemischter Chor und Orgel
Music score
Item no.: 730712
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730710
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730709
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730708
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753810
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753813
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753811
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 735643
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744754
op. 22/1
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 733559
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744752
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744751
for: gemischter Chor und Orgel
Music score
Item no.: 753814
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730714
(Johannes Jourdan)
for: gemischter Chor und Melodie-Instrument ad lib.
Music score
Item no.: 733561
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 733557
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753812
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730719
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753817
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730725
op. 64/4
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 733562
(Johannes Jourdan)
for: gemischter Chor, Flöte und Tasteninstrument
Music score
Item no.: 730724
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730721
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730716
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730711
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