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: Violin, piano
Item no.: 357075
Aria BWV 508
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 671607
2 Trauermärsche
for: Concert band
Conductors part (B-flat), set of parts
Item no.: 296063
for: Accordion
Music score
Item no.: 636764
for: Mixed choir (SATBB) a cappella
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 618817
Media vita in morte sumus
for: Flute, organ
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 244892
for: 2 clarinets (B-flat)
Parts (2)
Item no.: 1563220
Psalm 39 für Orgel
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 654986
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 464356
Klassik
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 323295
Verse aus Psalm 30
for: Voice, organ [Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB)]
Item no.: 272317
for: Trumpet (C/B-flat/E-flat), piano
Item no.: 431272
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 230665
for: Accordion orchestra
Score
Item no.: 557026
for: Alt solo, Gemischter Chor: SSATB, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1665075
for: 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 820399
for: Salon orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 150584
Auswahl-CD zur Ausgabe "Adagio" Band 1-3
Audio-CD
Item no.: 478676
for: Salon orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1677033
for: Concert band; voice ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1183716
for: 2 viole da gamba, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 665590
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 264709
from 'Scenes of Childhood'
for: Trumpet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 752834
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755746
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755745
Psalm 121,1-3
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755728
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755719
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 734128
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725858
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725824
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725817
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 552566
for: Trumpet (C/D), organ
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 460700
Edition Schott
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 750498
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 257954
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 151215
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 320460
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 166734
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 601543
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 317224
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 392728
for: Voice (alto), strings, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 392245
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB), Basso continuo (Orgel), Instrument ad libitum
Chorpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 117140
for: Chor, Orchester, Orgel
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 645621
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 348439
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116494
for: Alt solo, Gemischter Chor: SSATB, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 115879
for: Clarinet, 2 violins, viola, cello
Set of parts
Item no.: 189233
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