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:
Version von 1900 (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 580480
Variations on a Ground Bass
St. Martin's Organ Series 15
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 214151
for: 2 guitars
Item no.: 181722
"Trauersinfonie"
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 391756
for: Mittlere Stimme, Violinen (2), Viola, Basso continuo
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 115131
Funeral music
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 661158
Edition Schott
for: Tenor-Blockflöte und Cembalo (Klavier)
Music score
Item no.: 734900
for: 5 recorders (AATTB)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1072
for: Organ (manuals)
Music score
Item no.: 631226
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2141
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 497420
for: Organ
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 485457
Rubank Solo-Ensemble Sheet
for: Flötenquartett
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1667173
Set of parts
Item no.: 769251
for: Voice
Book
Item no.: 324783
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 315594
for: Voice (baritone), 3 clarinets
Vocal score
Item no.: 635212
for: Tenor, String Quartet and 4 Trombones
Piano reduction
Item no.: 303264
Actus tragicus. Trauermusik
BWV 106
for: Mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233627
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1714219
for: Brass ensemble
Buch
Item no.: 400858
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285525
Cantata for funeral service / Purification of Mary.
Reconstruction Klaus Hofmann
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233914
Azione sacra
Erstausgabe
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 237396
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 423885
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; percussion ad lib.
Organ reduction
Item no.: 686487
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 618712
Early version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 444394
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 176724
Cantata for funeral service / Purification of Mary.
Reconstruction Klaus Hofmann
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233913
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Buch
Item no.: 607983
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 772248
for: Voice (mezzo-soprano), 3 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 635170
for: Harp
Music score
Item no.: 334078
Motet
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); instruments colla parte, basso continuo ad lib.
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 226946
Actus tragicus. Trauermusik
BWV 106
for: Mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233630
Über die Nicht- und Flüchtigkeit des menschlichen Lebens – Kantate zum 24. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
Urtext Telemann-Archiv – Stuttgarter Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 423958
"Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir"
Cantata for a penitential service (version in g minor)
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 610796
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung II (1725)
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 612174
for: Klarinettenensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 465957
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Choir part Alto 1,2
Item no.: 209768
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 234620
HWV 54
for: 6 soloists (SSATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 550475
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 659343
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 oboes, cor anglais, bassoon, 4 trumpets, , snare drum, timpani, organ
Score
Item no.: 321285
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317789
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 373396
for: Mixed Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 392720
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