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:
Die schönsten klassischen Meisterwerke
Das Promenadenkonzert
for: Salon orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1677033
für 2 Violen da gamba und Bc (ausgesetzt)
for: 2 viole da gamba, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 665590
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 357075
für Orgel
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 392728
Aria BWV 508
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 671607
2 Trauermärsche
for: Concert band
Conductors part (B-flat), set of parts
Item no.: 296063
for: Accordion orchestra
Score
Item no.: 557026
for: Accordion
Music score
Item no.: 636764
for: Mixed choir (SATBB) a cappella
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 618817
Bearbeitung für Soli, Chor und Orgel
for: 5 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 655822
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 484726
KV 477
for: Bläsernonett und Kontrabass
Score, Parts
Item no.: 429315
32 einfache Sätze im alten Stil / Coro SSA oder SAA zur Bestattung
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 279300
Media vita in morte sumus
for: Flute, organ
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 244892
Brass Band
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 595382
Franz Schubert. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke I/6
for: Chor, Orchester, Orgel
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 645621
20 neue Lieder zu Trauerfeiern
for: Voice
Songbook
Item no.: 1657498
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 644637
Monodisches Teilstück aus "Arianna" und 4 Madrigalfassungen für Chor
for: Alt solo, Gemischter Chor: SSATB, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1665075
for: 2 clarinets (B-flat)
Parts (2)
Item no.: 1563220
Psalm 39 für Orgel
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 654986
Die schönsten klassischen Meisterwerke
Das Promenadenkonzert
for: Salon orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 150584
Über die Nicht- und Flüchtigkeit des menschlichen Lebens – Kantate zum 24. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
Urtext Telemann-Archiv – Stuttgarter Ausgaben
Satz mit vier Blockflötenstimmen
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 234621
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 230665
aus: Responsoria in Coena Domini MH 276,6
Urtext-Ausgabe
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 154554
aus: Drei Responsorien zum Totenoffizium
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo; 3 solo voices (SAT) ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 422907
Monodisches Teilstück aus "Arianna" und 4 Madrigalfassungen für Chor
for: Alt solo, Gemischter Chor: SSATB, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 115879
aus der Matthäus-Passion
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB), Basso continuo (Orgel), Instrument ad libitum
Chorpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 117140
für Horn und Orgel
for: Horn (F), organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 596483
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 464356
Klassik
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 323295
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 257253
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 370417
Verse aus Psalm 30
for: Voice, organ [Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB)]
Item no.: 272317
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 483298
Kantate Nr. 53 – Trauermusik
früher J.S. Bach zugeschrieben (BWV 53)
for: Voice (alto), strings, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 392245
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 264709
Musikalische Exequien III SWV 281
for: 2 favorit choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo; 8 instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 231793
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 667086
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 632386
Suite d'Orchestre
for: Symphonic orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 658676
Mitten wir im Leben sind
for: Posaune und Orgel
Score, solo part
Item no.: 278296
from Madrigali. Libro VI, Venezia 1614
for: 5 Gesang (SSATB) und Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 446334
Bärenreiter Urtext
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116494
Fassung des Autographs
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 235642
Auswahl-CD zur Ausgabe "Adagio" Band 1-3
Audio-CD
Item no.: 478676
for: Trumpet (C/D), organ
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 460700
for: BL SEXTETT
Score
Item no.: 103097
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