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:
three violins and basso continuo or string orchestra
Edition Schott
chorus of voices
for: 3 violins [string orchestra], basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 281698
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 198781
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 461432
Szenen für einen Pianisten
exempla nova 061
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 475119
Klassik
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 100767
Das Gitarrenrepertoire
for: 2 guitars
Ensemble score
Item no.: 414067
for: 4 flutes (quartet)
Score
Item no.: 117617
Klassik
for: Violin and Piano or Organ
Book
Item no.: 552893
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 345803
op. 81g
for: Blasorchester oder Bläserensemble
Set of parts
Item no.: 340496
Klassik
for: Saxophone, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 343180
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 493409
Zum Andenken an einen jungen Menschen
for: Organ
Item no.: 566135
for: Voice [cornet, horn, trombone, euphonium], brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 667498
for: Brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 594544
for: gemischter Chor (SATB), Sopran-Solo und Orgel
Score
Item no.: 353079
for: Treble recorder
Music score, CD
Item no.: 185196
Akkordeon Ensemble
for: Accordion Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 589978
Brass Band
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 595893
BWV 244
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach Ausgaben
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 613068
BWV 244
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach Ausgaben
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 605232
BWV 244
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach Ausgaben
Bläserstimmen (kompletter Satz)
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 671875
aus: Responsoria in Coena Domini MH 276,4 und 8
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 670542
Actus tragicus. Trauermusik
BWV 106
for: Mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 638058
Anspruchsvollere Begräbnismotette 1854in kontrapunktisch angereichertem Satz.
for: Gemischter Chor (SSATB), 3 Posaunen, Violoncello / Kontrabass, Orgel
Score
Item no.: 235619
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo; 3 solo voices (SAT) ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 236180
Sieben Totenlieder
for: Voice (medium), organ
Item no.: 766358
Trauermusik für Bläser
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part (anthology)
Item no.: 1559808
for: 2 trumpets [flugelhorns]
Item no.: 1559179
for: 3 clarinets (trio)
Item no.: 1559172
Trauermarsch
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1557269
for: 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 552650
for: 3 Singstimmen (SABAR)
Item no.: 473665
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1632572
Audio-CD
Item no.: 181901
Trompete (2), Horn, Posaune, Tuba
for: 5 brass winds
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 644425
For Strings op. 11
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 395389
D 460
Partitur
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 237962
for: Trombone in C (bass clef)
Music score, online mp3/pdf with piano accompaniment
Item no.: 335178
Epitaph, Auszüge aus den Liederzyklen "Das Lied des toten Bruders", "Romancero Gitano"
for: 2 guitars
Ensemble score
Item no.: 459794
String Attack
for: Cello, piano [organ]
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 410309
für Soloquartett, gemischten Chor und Orchester
Score
Item no.: 360193
S 23
for: Solo voice (baritone), mixed choir (SATBarB), baroque orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 161756
for: Brass winds, percussion
Score
Item no.: 479251
Trauerwalzer op. 9/2 (DV 365)op. 21
for: Flute, piano
Item no.: 113315
Entstehung - Werkbeschreibung - Rezeption
Bärenreiter Werkeinführungen
Book
Item no.: 136482
for children
for chamber wind ensemble
Stephenson Music
for: Wind ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1165896
Das Songbook zum Album "Sei behütet"
for: Voice, piano [guitar/keyboard]
Songbook (melody, lyrics, chords)
Item no.: 479127
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