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:
Abschiedsklang - Mein letzter Gruß
Flexible Besetzung
for: Flexible wind ensemble (5 voices)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 1678381
Bearbeitung der Matthäus-Passion von Johann Sebastian Bach
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1615909
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1615932
20 neue Lieder zu Trauerfeiern
for: Voice
Songbook
Item no.: 1657498
25 best-loved pieces for funerals
for: Organ (manuals)
Music score
Item no.: 1582968
25 best-loved pieces for funerals
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1582969
25 best-loved pieces for funerals
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1582975
for: Concert band
Conductors part, set of parts
Item no.: 1556429
from the Sonata in B-Flat minor op. 39
for: Violin, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1349740
for: Voice (soprano), 2 violins, basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 1161096
Musikalische Exequien III SWV 281
for: 2 favorit choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo; 8 instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Instrumental part 2 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 1160516
Musikalische Exequien III SWV 281
for: 2 favorit choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo; 8 instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Instrumental part 1 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 1160510
Musikalische Exequien III SWV 281
for: 2 favorit choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo; 8 instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Instrumental part 4 (Choir 1)
Item no.: 1160511
Musikalische Exequien III SWV 281
for: 2 favorit choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo; 8 instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Instrumental part 3 (Choir 1)
Item no.: 1160515
Musikalische Exequien III SWV 281
for: 2 favorit choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo; 8 instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Instrumental part 3 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 1160513
Musikalische Exequien III SWV 281
for: 2 favorit choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo; 8 instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Instrumental part 2 (Choir 1)
Item no.: 1160509
Musikalische Exequien III SWV 281
for: 2 favorit choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo; 8 instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 1160517
Musikalische Exequien III SWV 281
for: 2 favorit choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo; 8 instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Single part
Item no.: 1160514
Musikalische Exequien II
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Instrumental part 4 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 1121071
Musikalische Exequien II
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Instrumental part 2 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 1121068
Musikalische Exequien II
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Instrumental part 1 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 1121066
Musikalische Exequien II
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Instrumental part 3 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 1121072
Musikalische Exequien II
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Instrumental part 1 (Choir 1)
Item no.: 1121070
Musikalische Exequien II
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Instrumental part 2 (Choir 1)
Item no.: 1121069
Musikalische Exequien II
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Instrumental part 4 (Choir 1)
Item no.: 1121074
Musikalische Exequien II
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Instrumental part 3 (Choir 1)
Item no.: 1121067
Begräbnismusik in drei Teilen für Singstimmen und Basso continuo
Stuttgarter Schütz-Ausgabe Urtext
for: 8 voices (SSAATTBB), organ, bass; mixed choir (SSATTB), 6 melody instruments colla parte ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 1105833
in der Bearbeitung von Heinrich Ritter von Spengel (1852)
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1012512
in der Bearbeitung von Heinrich Ritter von Spengel (1852)
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 1012535
Ergreifende Trauermusik
for: Flexible wind ensemble (4 voices)
Set of parts
Item no.: 960612
Ballade
for: Tenor horn (solo), brass ensemble (7 parts), percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 817765
Solo-Time Band 82a
for: Alto saxophone, organ [piano]
Score, part
Item no.: 780723
(1550-1650)
An introduction
Book
Item no.: 773230
Ästhetische, religiöse, gesellschaftliche Aspekte
ortus studien 18
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 772751
In Paradisum
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 772248
In Paradisum
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 772245
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 772244
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 771660
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part (Organ solo)
Item no.: 771659
Arrangement for strings, harp and organ
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Score
Item no.: 771664
Arrangement for strings, harp and organ
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 771669
Epicedi per le grandi guerre
Book
Item no.: 770620
Purcell Society Edition Companion Series 5
Set of parts
Item no.: 769251
Purcell Society Edition Companion Series 5
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 769250
Song–Diary on Yiddish poems by Abraham Sutzkever
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 768189
Meditationen für Orgel
Melodie: Jacob Balde 1638
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 768076
Sieben Totenlieder
for: Voice (medium), organ
Item no.: 766358
for: Voice (high/medium), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 764779
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