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:
Edition Schott
for: Voice (medium), string quartet [string orchestra]
Score
Item no.: 756361
for: Voice (medium), organ [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1905
for: Voice (low), organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2411
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1661546
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730711
for: TTBB Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 297307
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 388483
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 193579
for: Flute [violin], guitar
Ensemble score
Item no.: 373487
for: Guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 659978
Score
Item no.: 557269
for: Saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 490094
for: Electric organ
Item no.: 108585
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 193179
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 428066
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 461677
for: gleiche Stimmen (SMezA)
Choir score
Item no.: 281046
for: Voice, guitar
Score
Item no.: 138285
for: Mezzo-Sopran (Bariton), Violine (Violoncello) und Klavier (Orgel)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 105988
for: Sopran (Tenor) und Orgel
Item no.: 566228
for: Voice, 2 violins, viola, cello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 658875
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 581120
for: Kinderchor (S), Violine, Viola, Violoncello und Orgel
Chorstimme
Item no.: 630206
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 257599
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 595392
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 106670
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 589044
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 587995
for: Mixed choir, organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 423618
for: Mixed choir (SATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 444987
for: Violine (oder Violoncello) und Klavier
Item no.: 356268
for: hohe Singstimme und Klavier; Violine (Violoncello) ad libitum
Item no.: 356508
Ave Maria
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 725119
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 343877
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Item no.: 294221
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 332065
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 562585
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 210168
for: Horn, piano
Ausgabe in B
Item no.: 487085
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 479659
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; trumpet/mandolin orchestra/rhythm group (accordion, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Single part Trumpet (solo)
Item no.: 300035
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308849
for: Accordion
Single edition
Item no.: 222841
Single part Clarinet 3
Item no.: 331120
for: Mandolino E Strumenti Diversi
Score
Item no.: 258109
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309520
for: Kinderchor (Mez) mit Männerchor (TTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 203122