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: Flötenquartett
Score, Parts
Item no.: 180756
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 772245
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 373395
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 620144
Cantata for the 8th Sunday after Trinity
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben Urtext
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 492895
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 373398
Trauerode für Solostimmen (SATB), gemischten Chor (SATB), Kammerorchester
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 681013
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 674385
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 769250
for: Brass ensemble (5 parts)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1106947
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 377200
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 292571
from "The Fairy Queen"
Echo
for: Voice (soprano), violin, piano
Score, part
Item no.: 303053
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 284906
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Choir part Tenor 1, 2
Item no.: 432057
Song–Diary on Yiddish poems by Abraham Sutzkever
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 768189
Actus tragicus. Trauermusik
BWV 106
for: Mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233629
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 325353
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung IV (1749) mit der unvollendeten Revision 1739 im Anhang
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 657036
For Recorder Quartet with Continuo ad lib
for: Recorder Ensemble, Piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 392735
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung IV (1749) mit der unvollendeten Revision 1739 im Anhang
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 170209
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 151261
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 202353
Hymn to the Victims of the Holocaust
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 683643
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 168012
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 373397
Cantata for funeral service / Purification of Mary.
Reconstruction Klaus Hofmann
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1671981
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 607206
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317746
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317729
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317711
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.
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 615229
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 237394
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (XL format)
Item no.: 665385
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321689
for: 5 trumpets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1667664
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
Bearbeitung für Soli, Chor und Orgel
for: 5 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 655822
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 484726
KV 477
for: Bläsernonett und Kontrabass
Score, Parts
Item no.: 429315
32 einfache Sätze im alten Stil / Coro SSA oder SAA zur Bestattung
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 279300
Media vita in morte sumus
for: Flute, organ
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 244892
Brass Band
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 595382
20 neue Lieder zu Trauerfeiern
for: Voice
Songbook
Item no.: 1657498
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