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:
Schneller Fox
for: Accordion orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 143828
für 4-stimmigen gemischten Chor
Das Musikblatt
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 387957
MH 382
Chorpartitur
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 237779
for: Salon orchestra
Piano score (conductor)
Item no.: 276004
for: Harfe
Single part Harp
Item no.: 582592
for: 2 baritone horns [tenor horns/trombones], tuba
Single part tuba B-flat
Item no.: 1713288
for: Brass winds (4 parts)
Part 3 in C (trombone / baritone horn)
Item no.: 1713433
for: Brass winds (4 parts)
Single part 2 in B-flat (trumpet / flugelhorn)
Item no.: 1713431
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 462106
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 565445
for: GCH (SAT/B)
Item no.: 297742
Diabelli Anton + Schubert Franz + Beethoven Ludwig Van
for: Symphonic orchestra
Guitar (single part)
Item no.: 350529
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Item no.: 333315
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 350915
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 392162
for: Voice, piano
OTHER
Item no.: 263488
for: Brass winds (4 parts)
Part 4 in B-flat (tenor horn / baritone horn / trombone / tuba)
Item no.: 1713430
for: Brass winds (4 parts)
Part 3 in F (horn)
Item no.: 1713427
for: Brass winds (4 parts)
Part 4 in C (trombone / baritone horn/tuba)
Item no.: 1713425
for: Combo
Item no.: 465841
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 560702
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 156676
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 245576
Schubert, Diabelli, Beethoven
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 301958
Lieder für Prozession und kirchliche Feste
for: Concert band
Single part Tuba 1 (C)
Item no.: 294853
Single part Flugelhorn 1
Item no.: 167049
op. 12
Stimmensatz
for: Women's choir (SSAA), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 235705
für Flöte und Klavier (+CD)
for: Flute, piano
Single part Flute, Playback-CD
Item no.: 666068
for: Baritone horn (C)
BASSSCHLUESSEL
Item no.: 461201
Single part Flugelhorn 2
Item no.: 167050
for: 2 soloists (SA), favorit choir (SSATB), 5 melodic instruments, organ
Score
Item no.: 231807
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Item no.: 367273
Orgelwerke IV
Veröffentlicht auf CD: ERES-CD 03 (organ: Andres Uibo).
Estonian Music
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 389229
for: BLM INST
Item no.: 275104
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 140323
for: KLAR-ES 1
Item no.: 227401
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 556115
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 138599
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 212117
for: Voice, piano
OTHER
Item no.: 263487
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309402
for: gemischter Chor und Orgel (Harmonium)
Score
Item no.: 201269
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