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: Small wind band
Item no.: 153596
for: 3 trumpets, 3 trombones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 179246
for: 3 trumpets, organ; timpani ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 277439
for: Women's choir [male choir] (3 voices)
Item no.: 311870
for: 4 trombones (quartet)
Item no.: 556539
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 257496
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 306761
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 378048
"Es will das Licht des Tages scheiden"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280972
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 348564
for: Accordion orchestra
Score
Item no.: 253017
MH 72
Chorpartitur
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 237796
Clarinet 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 246069
Single part Alto saxophone 1
Item no.: 226436
für 4-stimmigen gemischten Chor
Das Musikblatt
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 388077
for: Gemischter Chor
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 615991
Meditation über das erste Praeludium von Johann Sebastian Bach
for: Salon orchestra
Piano score (conductor)
Item no.: 276004
nach dem Adagietto aus der Symphonie Nr. 5
for: Harfe
Single part Harp
Item no.: 582592
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB) a cappella
Item no.: 464218
Jan Willems Special Edition
for: Voice, wind ensemble
Item no.: 314297
MH 382
Chorpartitur
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 237779
Schneller Fox
for: Accordion orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 143828
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 388212
für 4-stimmigen gemischten Chor
Das Musikblatt
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 387957
for: gemischter Chor (SATB), Sopran-Solo und Orgel
Choir score
Item no.: 751829
for: GCH (SAT/B)
Item no.: 297742
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
OTHER
Item no.: 263488
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 392162
for: Combo
Item no.: 465841
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 462106
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 565445
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 350915
Diabelli Anton + Schubert Franz + Beethoven Ludwig Van
for: Symphonic orchestra
Guitar (single part)
Item no.: 350529
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Item no.: 333315
"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
für Flöte und Klavier (+CD)
for: Flute, piano
Single part Flute, Playback-CD
Item no.: 666068
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 245576
Violin o Violonchelo y Piano
Item no.: 361178
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 560702
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 156676
op. 12
Stimmensatz
for: Women's choir (SSAA), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 235705
Schubert, Diabelli, Beethoven
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 301958
Ankündigung der Geburt Jesu. Evangeliendialog. Aus: Kleine geistliche Konzerte II
gleicher Notentext wie Sei gegrüßet Maria SWV 333
for: 2 soloists (SA), favorit choir (SSATB), 5 melodic instruments, organ
Score
Item no.: 231807
for: Baritone horn (C)
BASSSCHLUESSEL
Item no.: 461201
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