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: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 180006
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 186622
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 1012535
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 658682
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116686
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 177765
for: 4 brass instruments
Score, Parts
Item no.: 550554
50 Solo Songs for Special Occasions from Weddings to Funerals for Medium
for: Voice (medium/low), piano [organ]
Music score (anthology), online audio
Item no.: 562699
for: Voice (high/medium), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 764779
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 346649
for: Mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 167439
for: 8 voices (SSAATTBB), organ, bass; mixed choir (SSATTB), 6 melody instruments colla parte ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 423286
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, bassoon, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233890
50 Solo Songs for Special Occasions from Weddings to Funerals
for: Voice (high), piano [organ]
Music score (anthology), online audio
Item no.: 562698
Funeral motet
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 280494
Actus tragicus. Trauermusik
BWV 106
for: Mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233628
35 Beautiful Pieces
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 758497
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 212568
for: Violin, viola
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 684853
for: 2 violins, viola da gamba, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 138181
for: Clarinet (B-flat) [trumpet], piano
Piano score, solo part, audio file
Item no.: 1085
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 350903
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2590
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 297599
Easily manageable and popular organ music pieces from the baroque, classical and romanticism periods
for: Organ
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 483337
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Score, 2 ensemble scores
Item no.: 365704
for: Voice (soprano), violin, organ
Item no.: 377880
Arie aus der Matthäus-Passion
for: Voice (alto), piano
Music score
Item no.: 760457
Psalm 121,1-3
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725801
for: Voice (high), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 289681
for: Piano
Item no.: 312363
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 292317
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 295460
for vocal duet and piano (low key)
for: 2 voices (medium, low), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 611104
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 549366
for: Organ
Single edition
Item no.: 136945
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 289885
Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NBA) II/5 (Gesamtausgabe, Urtextausgabe) (Complete edition, Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 215847
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 205041
for: Flexible ensemble (5 parts), piano (school orchestra)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 565543
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 750381
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 556472
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 214092
New Bach Edition (NBA). II/4
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 139655
The Early Symphonies
Diletto Musicale – Doblinger's Classical Music Series
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 291730
for: Organ (manuals)
Music score
Item no.: 428835
for: Piano, string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 145643
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 582505
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