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: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321914
for: 4 voices (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309669
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 212118
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 483961
for: GES-T ORG (KLAV)
Item no.: 283352
for: Voice (medium), string quartet [string orchestra]
Score
Item no.: 607360
for: Medium High Voice and Piano
Book
Item no.: 178351
Ave Maris Stella
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 473130
for: Organ
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 296850
for: Flute
Item no.: 163989
for: Voice [melody instrument (C/B-flat)], concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 667494
for: Tenor saxophone, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591372
for: Euphonium, strings
Sheet music
Item no.: 591343
for: Cello solo, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 591265
for: Bass trombone, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591251
for: Violin, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 596869
for: SOLI GCH 2 FL 2 HRN
Score
Item no.: 491187
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 609245
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 258202
for: Flexible string ensemble and/or voice; piano [organ] ad lib.
Score (with piano part)
Item no.: 352182
Musik aus Estland
Set of parts
Item no.: 619389
für 4 Blockflöten (SATB) Partitur und Stimmen
for: BFL QUARTETT (SATB)
Item no.: 656852
for: Singstimme, Orgel / Harmonium
Item no.: 138016
Musik Fuer Oboe
for: Oboe Klavier (HA/Orgel)
Item no.: 470802
für Trompete und Klavier
Collection Maurice André
for: Trumpet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 198942
Klavierausgabe (ohne Solostimme)
for: Flute, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 666465
5 Liedmeditationen für Flöte (Oboe) und Orgel
Solo–Time 64
for: Flute [oboe], organ
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 622984
for: Accordion
Item no.: 252836
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Children's Choir [SSA] and Piano [Harp]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1654903
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 376403
for: Soprano and Piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 345381
for: Zither (5 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 151628
for: Male choir (TTBB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1667195
for: Voice, organ
Item no.: 376172
op. 97e, 2
for: gemischter Chor (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 750661
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733390
für gemischten Chor (SSAATTBB) a cappella
for: gemischter Chor (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 736406
for: Mixed choir (SAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 476408
for: Voice (mezzo-soprano), organ
Score
Item no.: 481602
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730714
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 2362
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 381360
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 475180
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 322045
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 247051
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 655659
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