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: Voice, piano [organ]
Item no.: 607355
Klassik
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 461770
D major
for: tiefe Singstimme und Klavier; Violine (Violoncello) ad libitum
Music score
Item no.: 724110
für Frauenchor mit Orchester- oder Orgelbegleitung
Piano reduction
Item no.: 361052
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
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 257997
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 273017
for: Voice, piano [organ]
Item no.: 479212
für Sopran, gemischten Chor und Streicher
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), strings
Piano reduction
Item no.: 382689
Meditation on the first Prelude C major from "The Well-Tempered Clavier"
for: Piano
Noten Original-Ausgabe
Item no.: 749046
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 320462
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 389067
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 283755
for: Piano; voice ad lib.
Single edition
Item no.: 578208
aus "Sechs religiöse Gesänge", op. 157 (Nr. 6)
for: Voice (medium), organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2412
for: 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons (winds octet)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 642202
Edition Schott
for: Voice, piano [organ]
Music score
Item no.: 756362
op. 100, Nr. 19
für Klavier
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2361
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 493052
for: FCH ORCH (ORG)
Score
Item no.: 175444
Stimmensatz Streicher
Set of parts
Item no.: 610404
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 302322
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Item no.: 363843
for: Singstimme (mittel), Orgel (Frauenchor ad libitum)
Score
Item no.: 375889
for: Tenor saxophone [soprano saxophone], piano [organ]
Item no.: 225797
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
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
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 1677833
from Walter Scott's "Fräulein vom See"
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 748991
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 315862
für Alt (Bariton) und Klavier
for: Voice (low), piano
Item no.: 106100
33 Mariengesänge für gemischten Chor
for: Gemischter Chor (4-6)
Item no.: 306965
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 471083
Musik Fuer Blechblaeser
for: Trumpet, organ
Item no.: 371282
pour voix et orgue
for: Voice, organ
Score
Item no.: 613025
Solos or Duets
Lieder - Songs - Gospels - Spirituals - Blues - Country - Folk - Popular Classics - Shanties - Oldies
for: 1–2 trumpets
Ensemble score
Item no.: 396456
4 Euphoniums
for: 4 euphoniums
Sheet music
Item no.: 596023
SCORE+PARTS
MORTIMER, J.G., ARR.
for: 4 trombones (quartet)
Sheet music
Item no.: 596022
Trompete & Streicher
for: Trumpet, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591326
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 590151
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 334533
Ten Christmas songsfrom the Piano Guys for Cello solo
Hal Leonard Cello Play Along 9
for: Cello
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 675738
für Singstimme und Orgel (Klavier)
for: Voice, piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 659192
für gemischten Chor und Orgel
(2 Violinen und Kontrabass ad lib.)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; 2 violins, double bass ad lib.
Organ score
Item no.: 308066
for: Electric organ
Item no.: 353568
Fantasy on a Lied by Franz Schubert
for: Organ
Item no.: 619765
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730725
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