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:
Alpine Pop–Ballade
for: 4 brass instruments
Score, parts, online media
Item no.: 1558864
Klassik
for: Piccolo
Score
Item no.: 100998
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 667670
Horn, Posaune und Tuba
Partitur und Stimmen
for: KAMMERMUSIK BLECHBLASINSTRUMENTE QUINTETTE
Score, Parts
Item no.: 290271
for: Alt und Orchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 351221
Motette nach Psalm 90 für achtstimmigen Doppelchorop. 97
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 612574
aus dem "Requiem"
Kaleidoscope Nr. 31 – Einfache und gut klingende Arrangements bei maximaler Flexibilität in der Besetzung!
for: Flexible ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 280160
for Violin and Piano
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 682689
for: Piano, tape
Piano score, CD
Item no.: 402785
Choralvorspiele und Intonationen barocken Charakters 10
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 486114
Postkarte
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); orchestra ad lib.
Postcard
Item no.: 424132
aus der Schauspielmusik zu Ibsens "Peer Gynt" (Klavierfassung des Komponisten, op. 46, Nr.2)
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1251
(3 Violinen und Generalbass)
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 215629
for trumpet and piano
for: Trumpet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 262014
Die erste kritische Edition von Verdis Requiem mit komplett käuflichem Aufführungsmaterial.
Partitur im Leinenumschlag
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 670139
Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Showcase Solo Level 5
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 578207
for: Keyboard; voice ad lib.
Music score
Item no.: 153301
Arrangement for strings, harp and organ
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Score
Item no.: 771664
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 738752
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755735
Trauermarsch zum Gedenken an Richard Nordraak
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1632236
Kanon zu 3 Stimmen
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725796
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725828
Buch
Item no.: 1658624
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 741138
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725829
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 741154
Solo Guitar
for: Guitar
Songbook
Item no.: 326272
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755729
for: Trumpet (B-flat), organ
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 180184
für Violine 1-2 Violen, Orgel und Basso continuo
for: Violin, 1-2 violas, organ, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 280542
op. 9/3
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 751888
Str. 1: aus den Psalmen 55, 108, 25; Str. 2: Klaus Heizmann
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725809
"Le Tombeau"
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 733042
for: gemischter Chor (SAATTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 742358
Motette nach Psalm 90 für achtstimmigen Doppelchor
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 734149
Ein Trostlied zu Trauerfeiern für gemischten Chor, Melodieinstrument und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), melody instrument (C/B-flat), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 670973
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
4 Performance scores
Item no.: 656662
for: BLECH ENSEMBLE SCHLAGZ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 551246
(3 Violinen und Generalbass)
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Set of parts
Item no.: 215630
for: Hunting horn, organ
Item no.: 460696
for: 3 clarinets (trio)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 143705
Songbook
Item no.: 444458
Funeral March
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 752129
und Trauermotette "Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst"
Carus Classics
Audio-CD
Item no.: 238199
for: SOLI gemischter Chor Bläser, Streicher, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 234828
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