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:
(Johannes Jourdan)
for: gemischter Chor und Melodie-Instrument ad lib.
Music score
Item no.: 733561
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 733557
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753812
für Singstimme und Basso continuo
for: Voice (high), basso continuo
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 2382
for: gleiche Stimmen (SMezA)
Choir score
Item no.: 742592
aus "Sechs religiöse Gesänge", op. 157 (Nr. 6)
for: Voice (high), organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2413
Meditation über das erste Präludium aus dem Wohltemperierten Klavier von Johann Sebastian Bach
for: Voice (high), piano
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 1229
Meditation über das erste Präludium aus dem Wohltemperierten Klavier von Johann Sebastian Bach
for: Voice (medium/low), piano
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 1232
Fantasy
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 749023
Vocal Album from the 16th to the 20th century
for: 1-4 Singstimmen (solistisch oder chorisch) und Klavier (Orgel)
Music score
Item no.: 779819
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730719
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753817
Scala enigmatica armonizzata a 4 voci miste dai "Quattro Pezzi Sacri"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1160
D major
for: tiefe Singstimme und Klavier; Violine (Violoncello) ad libitum
Music score
Item no.: 724110
for voice and string quartet
for: Singstimme und Streichquartett
Score, Parts
Item no.: 725060
(zus. mit Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria)
for: Alt (Bariton) und Klavier
Music score
Item no.: 760376
Ellens dritter Gesang (Hymne an die Jungfrau), aus Walter Scotts "Fräulein vom See"
D. 839 (op. 52, Nr. 6)
for: Voice (low), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2220
Meditation on the first Prelude C major from "The Well-Tempered Clavier"
for: Piano
Noten Original-Ausgabe
Item no.: 749046
Meditation über das erste Präludium aus dem Wohltemperierten Klavier von Johann Sebastian Bach
for: Voice (medium/high), piano
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 1230
Meditation über das erste Präludium aus dem Wohltemperierten Klavier von Johann Sebastian Bach
bearbeitet für Oboe und Klavier
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part, audio file
Item no.: 1238
für Singstimme und Klavier (Orgel)
for: Voice (high), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 2325
Ellens dritter Gesang (Hymne an die Jungfrau), aus Walter Scotts "Fräulein vom See"
D. 839 (op. 52, Nr. 6)
for: Voice (medium), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2221
aus "Sechs religiöse Gesänge", op. 157 (Nr. 6)
for: Voice (medium), organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2412
Edition Schott
for: Voice, piano [organ]
Music score
Item no.: 756362
op. 100, Nr. 19
für Klavier
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2361
from Walter Scott's "Fräulein vom See"
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 748991
for: Singstimme (S/T) und Klavier
Music score
Item no.: 747728
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730725
nach einem Chanson von Jacob Arcadelt
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1195
Festliche Musik zu allen Gelegenheiten
for: Variable Besetzungsmöglichkeiten
Partitur = Klavier, Orgel, Harmonium
Item no.: 743264
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 1468
op. 64/4
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 733562
(Johannes Jourdan)
for: gemischter Chor, Flöte und Tasteninstrument
Music score
Item no.: 730724
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730721
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730716
op. 52/6
for: Viola, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 726029
Edition Schott
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 726646
aus "Sechs religiöse Gesänge", op. 157 (Nr. 6)
for: Voice (low), organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2411
Edition Schott
for: Voice (medium), string quartet [string orchestra]
Score
Item no.: 756361
pour Voix et Orgue
for: Voice (medium), organ [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1905
Transcription for mixed choir a cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 750675
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730711
Ave Maria
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 725119
for: Kinderchor (Mez) mit Männerchor (TTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 742604
for: gemischter Chor (SATB), Sopran-Solo und Orgel
Choir score
Item no.: 751829
"Es will das Licht des Tages scheiden"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733371
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742443
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 740071
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