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: Brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 588029
from Organ Symphony No. 6 "Martin Luther"
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 759269
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755741
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1251
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 486114
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 180208
for: Trumpet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 262014
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 678371
for: Flexible ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 280160
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 318817
for Violin and Piano
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 682689
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 578207
for: 2 soloists (AT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 385461
for: Piano
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 444967
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 333781
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 263764
for: Double bass, piano
Item no.: 140985
for: Keyboard; voice ad lib.
Music score
Item no.: 153301
Trauermarsch zum Gedenken an Richard Nordraak
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1632236
Buch
Item no.: 1658624
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: 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
und Trauermotette "Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst"
Carus Classics
Audio-CD
Item no.: 238199
Bearbeitung
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 622129
for: Harmonium [organ manuals]
Item no.: 344433
Zehn Transkriptionen aus dem Werk Robert Schumanns
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 581253
for: Organ
Item no.: 477492
Trauermusik für 6 Bläser
Direktion in C
for: Brass ensemble (6 voices)
Conductors part
Item no.: 187271
Madrigal-Zyklus
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1654906
for: 3 horns (F)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1561015
Textheft
Lyric book
Item no.: 235904
Funeral motet
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 587104
Azione sacra
Erstausgabe
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 237395
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
Early version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 444392
Transcription facile
Pianino 133
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 584720
Kontrabass ad lib
Partitur und Stimmen
for: Streichquartett, Kontrabass ad libitum
Score, part
Item no.: 577749
Vortrags- und Fantasiestücke für Harmonium Band 1
for: Harmonium
Music score
Item no.: 660456
für Viola und Orgel (Klavier)
String Attack
for: Viola, piano [organ]
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 410308
for: Organ
Item no.: 162017
12 Classical Favorites Played in Jazz Style
for: Guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 655275
for: Guitar
Songbook
Item no.: 326272
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