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 a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730719
for: gleiche Stimmen (SMezA)
Choir score
Item no.: 742592
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753817
for: Voice (high), organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2413
for: Voice (high), basso continuo
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 2382
for: Voice (medium/low), piano
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 1232
for: Voice (high), piano
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 1229
for: Flute, clarinet, 2 violins, cello, double bass, piano
Item no.: 137168
Fantasy
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 749023
for: Piano
Item no.: 356507
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 145419
for: 2 Soprane (Sopran/Alt) und Orgel
Item no.: 477531
for: 2 voices (SA), organ
Score
Item no.: 423759
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 627398
for: Voice, piano [organ]
Music score
Item no.: 486712
zusammen mit Schubert, F.: Ave Maria, tief (D-Dur)
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score
Item no.: 1668101
für Gitarre
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 676235
Voce Con Tromba 32
for: GES-H (S) TRP KLAV (CEMB/ORG)
Item no.: 486476
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 491272
Marianische Themen für Orgel
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 562851
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 666459
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 131393
for: Voice, piano [organ]
Item no.: 607355
Item no.: 163199
Akkordeon und Melodieinstrument in der Kirche
für Akkordeon und Melodiestimme in C, B, Es
for: Accordion, melody instrument
Score, solo part
Item no.: 663583
Piano reduction
Item no.: 361052
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), strings
Piano reduction
Item no.: 382689
for: Small wind band
Score
Item no.: 375825
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 610401
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 631783
for: Bandoneon (soloist), piano, string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 565337
for: Accordion
Score
Item no.: 258031
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 488146
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 206427
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 168444
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 257997
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 320462
for: Frauenchor (SSAA) a cappella, 2 Soli (SA) ad libitum
Choir score
Item no.: 261679
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 461770
for: Mixed choir (2 voices), organ
Music score
Item no.: 1703639
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 283755
for: Trumpet (B-flat) [flugelhorn], concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 668602
Meditation on the first Prelude C major from "The Well-Tempered Clavier"
for: Piano
Noten Original-Ausgabe
Item no.: 749046
D major
for: tiefe Singstimme und Klavier; Violine (Violoncello) ad libitum
Music score
Item no.: 724110
for voice and string quartet
for: Singstimme und Streichquartett
Score, Parts
Item no.: 725060
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 590155
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 590152
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