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: Gemischter Chor (SATB), 1-2 Trompeten, 3-2 Posaunen, Orgel, [Pauken]
Score
Item no.: 371392
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 613134
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 237915
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 234888
for: SOLI gemischter Chor Bläser, Streicher, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 234828
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 679074
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 473690
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1011830
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 316935
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 160241
for: Gesang, Gemischter Chor, Orchester
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116493
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 137546
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 269067
for: SOLI (ATB) gemischter Chor 2 Oboen Fagott, Streicher, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 473627
for: Cello, strings
Score, Parts
Item no.: 361357
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Item no.: 471450
for: SOLI (T) MCH (+ BLECH)
Score
Item no.: 602614
for: Piano
Ensemble score
Item no.: 117612
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 107263
for: Mixed Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 412194
CD-ROM
Item no.: 466128
Funeral march
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1680008
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 154515
for Flute and Organ
Flute Attack
for: Flute, organ [piano]
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 342513
for: 4 Posaunen
Score
Item no.: 267055
for: 2 flutes (duet)
Music score
Item no.: 238479
for: Cello, Kontrabass, Fagott
Stimme, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 370349
for: Organ
Spielpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 586187
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 563976
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
4 Performance scores
Item no.: 656662
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 198035
for: 2 Alt-Saxophone (Sopran-Saxophon), Tenor-Saxophon und Bariton-Saxophon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 605398
for: Violin, 1-2 violas, organ, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 280542
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 738752
"Le Tombeau"
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 733042
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725829
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725828
Str. 1: aus den Psalmen 55, 108, 25; Str. 2: Klaus Heizmann
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725809
Kanon zu 3 Stimmen
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725796
Funeral March
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 752129
Motette nach Psalm 90 für achtstimmigen Doppelchor
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 734149
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 594606
for: Bass trombone, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591250
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 741154
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 741138
Edition Schott
for: gemischter Chor (SATB), Sopran-Solo und Orgel
Score
Item no.: 743119
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755735
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