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: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 320460
Klassik
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 552566
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
The Canadian Brass Ensemble Series
for: 2 trumpets (B-flat), horn (F), trombone, tuba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 400880
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
exempla nova 249
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 206569
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
Ein musikalischer Werkführer
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 649492
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
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 151215
for: 2 pianos
Score
Item no.: 695687
Edition Schott
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 750498
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 370579
für Singstimme, Orgel oder Klavier, Harmonium
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 143092
Klassik
for: Flute, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 171648
for: Trumpet (C/B-flat/E-flat), piano
Item no.: 431272
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 601543
For B-Flat Clarinet and Piano
for: Clarinet, piano
Score, part
Item no.: 257252
"Le Tombeau"
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 376851
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 741135
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SSATTB), basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 114658
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 348439
for: Flute, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 124782
für Violoncello und Orgel
for: Cello, organ
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 624457
Psalm 121,1-3
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755728
[mit CD: Begleitung zur Solostimme Violine]
MusicPartner - Klassik zum Mitspielen
for: 3 violins, basso continuo
Score, Single part, Playback-CD
Item no.: 337772
Cantata for funeral service / Purification of Mary.
Reconstruction Klaus Hofmann
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 662160
Abschiedsklang - Mein letzter Gruß
Flexible Besetzung
for: Flexible wind ensemble (5 voices)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 1678381
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755741
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 734134
Die Konzertgitarre
for: Guitar
Item no.: 1655314
"So schnell sind die Jahre vergangen"
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 734130
pour orgue
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 659958
Psalm 130 (129) für gemischten Chor und Orchester
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 394791
Requiem in F
for: GCH (SSTB) (+ ORG)
Score
Item no.: 350953
Quelques mesure de Chant Funèbre
for: Chor TTBarB, [Trommel]
Score
Item no.: 423615
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