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 (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1655593
for: Male choir
Item no.: 1652838
for: 2 voices, organ
Item no.: 335967
für gem. Chor und Orgel (Klavier)
for: Mixed choir, organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 622992
Cantata for funeral service / Purification of Mary.
Reconstruction Klaus Hofmann
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1671981
BWV 244
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach Ausgaben
Soprano in ripieno, Cantus-Firmus-Choralchor
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 1664712
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 345526
Fassung IV
Passio secundum Joannem
Postcard
Item no.: 1684651
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 328057
for: Male choir (TTBB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1667195
Doppelausgabe
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 226185
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 168634
Transcribed from Adagio For Strings
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano [organ] ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 241282
Die berühmte Komposition von Robert Schumann, die überall bekannt ist
for: Zither (3 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 173762
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 273017
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1652991
Poem by Dana Gioia
for SATB and Piano
Peermusic Classical
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 620144
for mixed chorus (SATB) and percussion
Choral Music South Africa
for: Mixed choir (SATB), percussion
Score
Item no.: 1677292
Choral Concert Series
for: Soloist (tenor/alto), mixed choir (SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 670190
Actus tragicus. Trauermusik
BWV 106
for: Mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Viola da gamba 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1672469
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Children's Choir [SSA] and Piano [Harp]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1654903
for: Mixed choir (2 voices), organ
Music score
Item no.: 655491
für gemischten Chor (SAATTBB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 603479
Lamento
for: Voice (bass), string orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Violin
Item no.: 1681525
Lamento
for: Voice (bass), string orchestra, basso continuo
Viola da gamba 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1684647
Lamento
for: Voice (bass), string orchestra, basso continuo
Viola da gamba 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1681526
Actus tragicus. Trauermusik
BWV 106
for: Mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233629
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1659237
Motette
Möseler Chorreihe 87
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1661546
Hinshaw Concert
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1671911
Marsch
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1677083
2 marianische Motetten für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 380694
for: KARTE CD
Item no.: 1665398
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 558479
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 228792
for vocal duet and piano (low key)
for: 2 voices (medium, low), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 611104
Trauermotette nach den Klageliedern Jeremiae
für vier- bis siebenstimmigen gemischten Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir (4–7 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 119460
F-Dur
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Organ reduction
Item no.: 1653781
Arrangiert für Violoncello und Klavier
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 356319
für Klavier leicht spielbar bearbeitet
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 462685
Meditation über das erste Präludium C-Dur aus dem "Wohltemperierten Klavier" von J.S. Bach
for: Violin [cello], piano
Piano score, Solo parts
Item no.: 356766
für Klavier
Easy Piano 27
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1688091
Edition Schott Einzelausgabe
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 356262
aus den "Kinderszenen"op. 15/7
for: Viola, piano
Item no.: 580027
Meditation über das erste Präludium C-Dur aus dem "Wohltemperierten Klavier"
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 356506
Funeral Cantata TWV 4:17
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Flute
Item no.: 430526
Die Konzertgitarre
for: Guitar
Item no.: 1655314
Suite d'Orchestre
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1658712
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