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:
Musik für Gottesdienst, Konzert und Unterricht
for: Organ
Music score (anthology), CD
Item no.: 684636
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.
Score
Item no.: 423286
Vortrags- und Fantasiestücke für Harmonium Band 4
for: Harmonium
Music score
Item no.: 660562
Rekonstruktion nach der Maurerischen Trauermusik
for: Male choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 241365
(Oversize)
for: Harp
Item no.: 579776
Ach, daß ich des Wassers gnug hätte
for: GES-T (A) STR ORG
Score
Item no.: 444157
Passion cantata KV 42 (35a)
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 140633
Musik unserer Zeit
for: Viola [violin/cello], string orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 288501
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 686625
from Piano Sonata op. 35
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401346
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Choir part Alto 1,2
Item no.: 209768
Über die Nicht- und Flüchtigkeit des menschlichen Lebens – Kantate zum 24. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
Urtext Telemann-Archiv – Stuttgarter Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 423958
Über die Nicht- und Flüchtigkeit des menschlichen Lebens.
Kantate zum 24. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
Urtext Telemann-Archiv – Stuttgarter Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 234620
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung II (1725)
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 612174
"Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir"
Cantata for a penitential service (version in g minor)
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 610796
35 Beautiful Pieces
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 659343
Pops For Ensembles Level 2.5
for: Klarinettenensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 465957
Choral Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 oboes, cor anglais, bassoon, 4 trumpets, , snare drum, timpani, organ
Score
Item no.: 321285
HWV 54
for: 6 soloists (SSATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 550475
for: FL SPR
Item no.: 1671925
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1323288
Solo-Time Band 82a
for: Alto saxophone, organ [piano]
Score, part
Item no.: 780723
Funeral March
BOVACO Classic CB
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1031452
Suite pour orgue
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 641000
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1687767
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 644779
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 556820
Kontrafaktur für kleines Orchester (1983)
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 264629
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: 3 violins, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 299763
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 271271
Klassik
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 330705
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 318791
Vortrags- und Fantasiestücke für Harmonium Band 3
for: Harmonium
Music score
Item no.: 660444
In G minor
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 696826
arranged
for: Violin, organ
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 624427
2 Trauermärsche
for: Small wind band
Conductors part (B-flat), set of parts
Item no.: 296062
Trauermusiksammlung aus dem Verlag Kliment
Audio-CD
Item no.: 312939
Contemporary Church Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 291330
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 223098
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 248001
for: Alto Flute
Buch
Item no.: 259633
for: Horn, piano
Item no.: 353601
Arie für Violine und Klavier
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 605569
Gewidmet den Opfern des Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen, Text-Collage nach Theodor Fontane, Günther Deicke, Henry Krea und Ernst Toller
for: Singstimme (S), gemischter Chor, [Elektronika]
Score
Item no.: 123212
Gyoergy Geiger Erlebnis Trompete 1
for: Trumpet, harp [piano]
Item no.: 202968
exempla nova 227
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 182641
for: Horn, piano
Item no.: 135479
Lamento – Speranza
for: Cello, organ
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 468581
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