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 4-stimmigen Männerchor
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 386468
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 230668
(Text aus "Winnetou III")
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3050
für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2181
op. 176, Nr. 9
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1372
aus "Vier Lieder des Gedächtnisses", op. 24 (Nr. 3)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1142
nach einem Chanson von Jacob Arcadelt
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1195
Single part Alto saxophone 2
Item no.: 372092
Single part Alto saxophone 1
Item no.: 372091
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202766
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 280457
Psalm 121,1-3
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755728
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 733558
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 734128
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753815
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725817
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 743502
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725824
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 741135
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755745
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725858
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755746
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755719
"Ave, Marry"
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730717
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 733556
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753810
"So schnell sind die Jahre vergangen"
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 734130
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 734134
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730708
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730709
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730710
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755741
for: gemischter Chor und Orgel
Music score
Item no.: 730712
Psalm 121,1-3
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725801
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755729
Str. 1: aus den Psalmen 55, 108, 25; Str. 2: Klaus Heizmann
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725809
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 741154
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 738752
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755735
Kanon zu 3 Stimmen
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725796
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725828
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 741138
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725829
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753811
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753813
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 735643
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755742
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744754
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