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: Tuba, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 596411
for: Voice, piano [guitar/keyboard]
Single edition
Item no.: 408440
for: Voice [melody instrument (C/B-flat/E-flat/F)], concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 667760
for: Women's choir (SSAA), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 140208
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB), Orchester (2 Cornetti, Pauken, 2 Violinen, Violoncello / Kontrabass, Orgel)
Score
Item no.: 237777
for: Soli (SSAATTB), gemischter Chor (SSAATTB), Orgel
Score
Item no.: 235643
for: GES (2-3) ORG
Score
Item no.: 291009
for: Mixed choir (SATB); double bass, organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 137592
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Item no.: 420535
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 1747271
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 627398
for: Voice, piano [organ]
Music score
Item no.: 486712
for: 2 Soprane (Sopran/Alt) und Orgel
Item no.: 477531
for: Piano
Item no.: 356507
for: String orchestra
Item no.: 616236
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 456451
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
Akkordeon und Melodieinstrument in der Kirche
für Akkordeon und Melodiestimme in C, B, Es
for: Accordion, melody instrument
Score, solo part
Item no.: 663583
for: Small wind band
Score
Item no.: 375825
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 610401
for: Bandoneon (soloist), piano, string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 565337
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 206427
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 168444
for: Mixed choir (2 voices), organ
Music score
Item no.: 1703639
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
(zus. mit Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria)
for: Alt (Bariton) und Klavier
Music score
Item no.: 760376
for: Voice (low), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2220
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1160
für Singstimme (Alt), Violine und Orgel
for: Voice (alto), violin, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 677116
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 283755
for: Accordion
Score
Item no.: 258031
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 320462
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 631783
for: Voice (medium/high), piano
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 1230
Meditation on the first Prelude C major from "The Well-Tempered Clavier"
for: Piano
Noten Original-Ausgabe
Item no.: 749046
for: Trumpet (B-flat) [flugelhorn], concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 668602
for: Trumpet, piano
Item no.: 112505
for: Voice (mezzo-soprano), organ
Music score
Item no.: 563528
Piano reduction
Item no.: 361052
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), strings
Piano reduction
Item no.: 382689
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 131393
for: Frauenchor (SSAA) a cappella, 2 Soli (SA) ad libitum
Choir score
Item no.: 261679
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