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:
Italienische Volksweise
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 582057
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 336545
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 445745
for: Voice (low), organ
Item no.: 472353
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 455677
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 459644
Single part Tenor Saxophone 1
Item no.: 142657
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 649895
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 171274
Single part Tenor horn 1
Item no.: 146665
for: Kinderchor (Mez) mit Männerchor (TTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 742604
for: Mixed choir (6 voices) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 474878
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 263495
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 469375
for: 1–2 voices, piano
Score
Item no.: 479796
Buch
Item no.: 249410
for: Small wind band
Item no.: 153596
for: 3 trumpets, organ; timpani ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 277439
for: 3 trumpets, 3 trombones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 179246
for: Women's choir [male choir] (3 voices)
Item no.: 311870
for: 4 trombones (quartet)
Item no.: 556539
for: Singstimme (hoch), Klavier
Item no.: 612104
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 348564
for: Accordion orchestra
Score
Item no.: 253017
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 378048
Clarinet 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 246069
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 388077
Single part Alto saxophone 1
Item no.: 226436
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 257496
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280972
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 306761
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 237796
Jan Willems Special Edition
for: Voice, wind ensemble
Item no.: 314297
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 388212
for: Gemischter Chor
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 615991
Schneller Fox
for: Accordion orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 143828
für 4-stimmigen gemischten Chor
Das Musikblatt
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 387957
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB) a cappella
Item no.: 464218
for: Brass winds (4 parts)
Part 3 in C (trombone / baritone horn)
Item no.: 1713433
for: Brass winds (4 parts)
Single part 2 in B-flat (trumpet / flugelhorn)
Item no.: 1713431
for: 2 baritone horns [tenor horns/trombones], tuba
Single part tuba B-flat
Item no.: 1713288
for: Harfe
Single part Harp
Item no.: 582592
for: Salon orchestra
Piano score (conductor)
Item no.: 276004
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 237779
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 462106
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 565445
for: GCH (SAT/B)
Item no.: 297742
Diabelli Anton + Schubert Franz + Beethoven Ludwig Van
for: Symphonic orchestra
Guitar (single part)
Item no.: 350529