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:
in der Bearbeitung von Heinrich Ritter von Spengel (1852)
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 1012535
BWV 244
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116686
Transcription de Mason James
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 180006
Suite d'Orchestre
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 658682
Version von 1900 (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 580480
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; percussion ad lib.
Organ reduction
Item no.: 686487
Last Respects
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
"Actus tragicus"
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 167439
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
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben · Urtext
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
Relax with
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 758497
bearbeitet für Orgel
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2590
aus den "Kinderszenen", op. 15
bearbeitet für Klarinette oder Trompete und Klavier
for: Clarinet (B-flat) [trumpet], piano
Piano score, solo part, audio file
Item no.: 1085
'Auch das Schöne muss sterben'
Breitkopf Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 350903
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 212568
Sonate Nr.7
Für 2 Violinen, Baßgambe und Bc
for: 2 violins, viola da gamba, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 138181
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Score, 2 ensemble scores
Item no.: 365704
for violin and viola
for: Violin, viola
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 684853
Das Chorbuch für gemischte Stimmen
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
Psalm 121,1-3
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 725801
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 205041
for: Voice (soprano), violin, organ
Item no.: 377880
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 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 549366
for piano
for: Piano
Item no.: 312363
over a Basso Ostinato
for Organ
for: Organ
Single edition
Item no.: 136945
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 289885
Bearbeitungen für Kammermusik
aus der Bühnenmusik zu Kuolema
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 292317
from Gloria Patri
24 hymns for mixed choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 295460
Arie aus der Matthäus-Passion
Hosianna
13
for: Voice (alto), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 760457
für Singstimme, Streichquartett, Harfe und Orgel
Fassung für hohe Stimme und Orgel; dient auch als Orgel- und Gesangsstimme bei Aufführungen mit Ensemble
for: Voice (high), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 289681
for vocal duet and piano (low key)
for: 2 voices (medium, low), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 611104
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 556472
25 best-loved pieces for funerals
for: Organ (manuals)
Music score
Item no.: 1582968
New music for Funerals and Memorial services
for: Organ (manuals)
Music score
Item no.: 428835
Music of Mourning
Edition Schott
for: Viola (Violine, Violoncello) und Streichorchester
Orchestermaterial je 1 Violine 1, Violine 2, Bratsche, Violoncello, Kontrabass
Item no.: 733965
in freier Neugestaltung
Edition Schott
for: Alt und Orchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 741264
aus der Bühnenmusik zu "Kuolema"
for: Accordion
Music score
Item no.: 284955
aus der Bühnenmusik zu Kuolema
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 287191
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 335322
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 659288
für (Mezzo-)Sopran und B.c. (komplett) (complete)
for: GES-M BC
Score, Parts
Item no.: 278583
for: Accordion orchestra
Score
Item no.: 193042
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