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: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1323288
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 271271
Solo-Time Band 82a
for: Alto saxophone, organ [piano]
Score, part
Item no.: 780723
Funeral March
BOVACO Classic CB
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1031452
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 381406
for: Singstimme (S), gemischter Chor, [Elektronika]
Score
Item no.: 123212
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 556820
for: Flexible ensemble (school orchestra)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 362751
for: 3 treble recorders, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 578678
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 216844
for: Trumpet, harp [piano]
Item no.: 202968
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1208846
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1655593
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 679075
1. Ah, leave me here to perish
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 755301
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1874
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 4014
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725856
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725850
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725842
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725820
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725811
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725808
Edition Schott
for: Mezzosopran und Orgel oder Synthesizer/Akkordeon
Music score
Item no.: 757097
from Sonata B-flat minor
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 748942
Eulenburg Miniature Scores
for: 3 violins, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 759249
for: Flexible wind ensemble (5 voices)
Score (C), Parts
Item no.: 446297
In G minor
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 696826
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 550487
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 463575
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 264629
Arie für Violine und Klavier
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 605569
for: A-SAX ORG (KLAV)
Item no.: 553160
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 291330
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 318791
for: 2 pianos
Music score
Item no.: 195605
for: Alto Flute
Buch
Item no.: 259633
Trauermusiksammlung aus dem Verlag Kliment
Audio-CD
Item no.: 312939
for: Piano
Music score, CD
Item no.: 481108
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 644779
for: Brass ensemble (12 parts), latin percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 345539
Begräbnismusik in drei Teilen für Singstimmen und Basso continuo
Stuttgarter Schütz-Ausgabe Urtext
for: 8 voices (SSAATTBB), organ, bass; mixed choir (SSATTB), 6 melody instruments colla parte ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 231790
for: Trumpet (C)
Music score, online media
Item no.: 345880
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 215140
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 223098
for: Voice (mezzo-soprano), piano
Item no.: 106159
for: 1. Oboe, 2. Oboe
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 361802
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