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, piano
Item no.: 332065
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 562585
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 210168
for: Horn, piano
Ausgabe in B
Item no.: 487085
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 479659
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; trumpet/mandolin orchestra/rhythm group (accordion, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Single part Trumpet (solo)
Item no.: 300035
Single part Clarinet 3
Item no.: 331120
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308849
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309520
for: Kinderchor (Mez) mit Männerchor (TTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 203122
for: Mandolino E Strumenti Diversi
Score
Item no.: 258109
for: 2 baritone horns [tenor horns/trombones], tuba
Part 1 in B-flat (tenor horn / baritone horn / trombone)
Item no.: 1713298
for: Accordion
Single edition
Item no.: 222841
Organ reduction
Item no.: 289842
for: GES (INST) GIT
Item no.: 485790
Item no.: 610596
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 332604
for: Salon orchestra
Additional parts
Item no.: 134902
for: Mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Single part Kettledrums
Item no.: 469381
Single part Horn 2
Item no.: 310933
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 381035
for: Mixed choir (8 parts) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 388117
for: 2 baritone horns [tenor horns/trombones], tuba
Part 2 in B-flat (tenor horn / baritone horn / trombone)
Item no.: 1713297
for: 2 baritone horns [tenor horns/trombones], tuba
Single part Tuba (E-flat)
Item no.: 1713295
Méditation
Seiferts Akkordeon-Musik
for: Accordion
Single part(n)
Item no.: 102168
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 144869
Single part Trombone 3 (C)
Item no.: 367914
Single part Trombone 1 (C)
Item no.: 246072
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 430872
Piano reduction
Item no.: 330814
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 560701
for: Salon orchestra
Item no.: 389165
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 388236
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309662
for: Voice, piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 268984
for: 2 baritone horns [tenor horns/trombones], tuba
Single part tuba (C)
Item no.: 1713289
for: Voice (soprano), organ
Item no.: 563584
for: Cello and Guitar
Book
Item no.: 579744
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 445750
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 185351
for: Small wind band
Item no.: 153597
Italienische Volksweise
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 485205
MH 382
Klavierauszug
Piano reduction
Item no.: 237778
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