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: 1–2 flutes
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 156870
Music Makes The World Go Round
for: Flexible ensemble
Conductors part (Piano)
Item no.: 479549
for: Horn (F)
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 147742
for: Harmonium [organ manuals]
Item no.: 484122
Arrangement für vier Gitarren
for: 4 guitars (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 376564
for: Harmonium [organ manuals]
Item no.: 311294
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 244002
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 267805
for: Organ, piano
2 Scores
Item no.: 605076
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 631115
for: Zither (6 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 151542
for: Clarinet
Item no.: 479563
for: 1–2 clarinets
Ensemble scores, CD
Item no.: 492720
für Streichquartett
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 312972
Music of Mourning
for: Viola (Violine, Violoncello) und Streichorchester
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 756378
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755742
Based on Johann Pachelbel's famous "Canon In D"
Classics
for: Fanfare Band (brass & saxophones)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 675688
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 364143
for: Voice (high), 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet), harp, organ
Score
Item no.: 676663
for: Mixed choir, orchestra [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 347504
for: Soprano Alto Tenor Bass Voice SATB Organ Accompaniment
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 244973
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 326317
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 101200
for: Zither (3 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 147850
for: 2 horns (F/E-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part (anthology)
Item no.: 1563208
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 301423
for: Harp or Harps
Score
Item no.: 376037
from 'Scenes of Childhood'
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 752833
for: Oboe [2 Oboi] [Corno Inglese] E Pf.
Score
Item no.: 388641
for: Oboe [violin/cello], organ
Score
Item no.: 621443
for: Piano
Item no.: 159668
for: 1–2 accordions
Music score
Item no.: 603240
for: Guitar
Single edition
Item no.: 583315
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 768076
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SSATTB), basso continuo
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 693436
for: Viola
Stimme, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 406828
for: Gesang, Gemischter Chor, Orchester
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 231680
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116503
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 625016
for: Trompete und Klavier oder Orgel
Book
Item no.: 300231
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 292314
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 697060
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 141821
for: 3 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 299826
Easily manageable and popular organ music pieces from the baroque, classical and romanticism periods
for: Organ
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 293394
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 244190
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