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:
Lied ohne Worte op. 62/3
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 764613
Blasorchester
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 588360
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 763542
Brass Band
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 595510
BWV 244
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach Ausgaben
Bläserstimmen (kompletter Satz)
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 671875
for: Small wind band
Item no.: 168426
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Chamber ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 264685
Fassungen von 1767 und 1803
Haydn Gesamtausgabe XXII, Band 1
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 314394
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung IV (1749) mit der unvollendeten Revision 1739 im Anhang
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 151261
Nr. 5 aus "Pli selon pli" (Portrait de Mallarmé)
for: für Sopran und Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 164182
for: Wind ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 665710
Akkordeon Musik Edition Lyss
for: Accordion orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 558621
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung II (1725)
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 202353
includes, besides the original version, a version with a smaller orchestra
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 667224
for: Small wind band
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 691901
for: Organ
Music score (hardcover)
Item no.: 142183
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 1687873
2 Vl/Va/Vlc/Piano
for: String Ensemble and Piano
Score
Item no.: 412728
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 180208
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 430872
Bearbeitung der Matthäus-Passion von Johann Sebastian Bach
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1615909
Urtext
Die erste kritische Edition von Verdis Requiem mit komplett käuflichem Aufführungsmaterial.
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 624506
BWV 244
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach Ausgaben
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 605232
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.
Set of parts
Item no.: 1105833
Azione sacra
Erstausgabe
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 237394
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 392162
from "Saving Private Ryan"
for Concert Band with Optional Chorus
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 478867
Funeral Music on Themes from "Euryanthe" by C. M. von Weber
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 316123
Early version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 444392
Early version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 1659722
Purcell Society Edition Companion Series 5
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 769250
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 318791
Trauerode für Solostimmen (SATB), gemischten Chor (SATB), Kammerorchester
Stimmensatz
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 681147
Arrangement for strings, harp and organ
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Score
Item no.: 771664
Brass Band
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 594606
Blasorchester
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 588401
for: Voice [cornet, horn, trombone, euphonium], brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 667498
Brass Band
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 595393
Brass Band
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 594264
HWV 54
for: 6 soloists (SSATBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1317322
Brass Band
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 595392
Pop, Film and Show
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 214046
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 633361
The Early Symphonies
Diletto Musicale – Doblinger's Classical Music Series
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 291735
Arrangement für Kammerorchester
Sämtliche Vokalpartien (Soli und Chor) sind mit der Originalfassung identisch.
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 661147
for: Tuba, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 589018
for: Euphonium, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 589014
Blasorchester
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 588734
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