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:
Fagott & Streicher
for: Bassoon, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 596919
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 590154
Blasorchester
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 587919
Klassik
for: Bugle [cornet or trumpet] and Piano
Book
Item no.: 175734
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Children's Choir [SSA] and Piano [Harp]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 445776
Solo für Flöte, Klarinette, Fagott, Tenorsaxophon, Trompete, Horn, Tenorposaune, Bassposaune, Euphonium, Tuba, Violine, Viola oder Cello
for: Trumpet [cornet/flugelhorn], concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 671769
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 733556
for: gemischter Chor und Orgel
Music score
Item no.: 730712
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730710
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730709
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730708
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753810
for: Accordion orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1682089
for: Guitar
Item no.: 163512
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 306735
for: Voice (high), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 283340
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar/AATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 477709
for: Voice, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 273938
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 289467
for: Soloist (soprano), women's choir (SA), piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 376317
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 654882
for: 2 soloists (SA), favorit choir (SSATB), 5 melodic instruments, organ
Score
Item no.: 231806
for: Mixed choir (SAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 351192
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, choir score (pdf download)
Item no.: 2937
for: Cello [trombone/bassoon], piano
Piano score, solo part, audio file
Item no.: 1489
for: Voice, piano
Book
Item no.: 347724
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 315053
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Item no.: 261577
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 315285
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 316630
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 472603
for: Voice, organ manuals [piano]
Score
Item no.: 335314
for: 2 baritone horns [tenor horns/trombones], tuba
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 1713286
for: Melodie-Instrument, Orgel
Score, solo part
Item no.: 469440
for: Voice (medium), organ
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 139318
for: Voice (low), organ [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1988
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 198621
for: Voice (high), piano
Single edition
Item no.: 200041
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 265709
for: SA + organ
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 159432
for: Violin
Book, CD
Item no.: 292893
for: Wind ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 665710
Organ in Concert 008
for: Electric organ
Item no.: 1651449
Klassik
for: Mezzo-Soprano and Piano
Book
Item no.: 275434
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Item no.: 420533
A CAPPELLA
CHORPARTITUR
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 341913
for: Male choir
Item no.: 361251
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar/AATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 576969
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