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: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 185111
for: 1–2 trumpets
Ensemble score
Item no.: 396456
for: FCH ORCH (ORG)
Score
Item no.: 175444
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; 2 violins, double bass ad lib.
Organ score
Item no.: 308066
for: Gemischter Chor (4-6)
Item no.: 306965
for: Voice (low), piano
Item no.: 106100
for: Electric organ
Item no.: 353568
for: Men's choir [women's chori] (3 equal voices ) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 172634
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 560261
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 256238
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 150126
for: Voice, organ
Score
Item no.: 613025
Ten Christmas songsfrom the Piano Guys for Cello solo
Hal Leonard Cello Play Along 9
for: Cello
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 675738
for: Voice, piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 659192
for: Organ
Item no.: 619765
for: Mixed choir (SAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 603479
for: Violine und Orgel
Score, solo part
Item no.: 635284
for: Trumpet, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591326
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 590151
for: tiefe Singstimme und Klavier; Violine (Violoncello) ad libitum
Item no.: 356510
for: Voice (low), piano
Item no.: 356152
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 334533
for: 4 euphoniums
Sheet music
Item no.: 596023
for: 4 trombones (quartet)
Sheet music
Item no.: 596022
for: Voice, piano [organ]
Music score
Item no.: 319201
for: Voice (high), organ
Item no.: 175162
op. 621
for: für Gesang und Klavier
Item no.: 1669216
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 346002
Edition Schultheiss
for: Voice (high), piano [organ]
Item no.: 311528
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; trumpet/mandolin orchestra/rhythm group (accordion, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 145021
Leuckart-Reprint
for: GES-T (A/BAR) KLAV
[latein, englisch]
Item no.: 166358
Collection Anacrouse
for: Voice, piano
Book
Item no.: 470826
for: 2 Soprane (Sopran/Alt) und Orgel
Item no.: 1701272
for: Sinstimme (hoch), Flöte, Orgel
Score
Item no.: 613135
for: Gemischter Chor
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 615992
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 324722
for: Voice, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1678042
for: Salon orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 167819
for: Voice a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 1657383
for: Euphonium, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 589014
for: Alto saxophone, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 588947
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 1468
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1195
for: Small wind band
Item no.: 168426
op. 64/4
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 733562
(Johannes Jourdan)
for: gemischter Chor, Flöte und Tasteninstrument
Music score
Item no.: 730724
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730721
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730716
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