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 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 486842
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 679074
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 473690
for: Klavierbegleitung
Book
Item no.: 220113
for: Viola, piano
Item no.: 298744
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284755
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1011830
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 388642
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 316935
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 806510
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 160241
for: Gesang, Gemischter Chor, Orchester
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116493
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 137546
for: Guitar
Item no.: 582777
E major
for: Flute, guitar
Score (with TABs), solo part
Item no.: 152327
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 658010
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 269067
for: SOLI (ATB) gemischter Chor 2 Oboen Fagott, Streicher, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 473627
for: Cello, strings
Score, Parts
Item no.: 361357
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Item no.: 471450
for: Piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 388915
for: SOLI (T) MCH (+ BLECH)
Score
Item no.: 602614
for: Organ
Item no.: 288640
for: Piano
Ensemble score
Item no.: 117612
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 618611
for: Organ
Spielpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 586187
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 107263
for: 2 guitars
Ensemble score
Item no.: 151247
for: Mixed Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 412194
for: 4 Posaunen
Score
Item no.: 267055
for: Flute [oboe/violin], piano
Piano score, solo part, audio file
Item no.: 2145
Funeral Ode
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 299983
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 361779
for: 2 flutes (duet)
Music score
Item no.: 238479
for: Cello, Kontrabass, Fagott
Stimme, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 370349
for Flute and Organ
Flute Attack
for: Flute, organ [piano]
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 342513
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 198035
for: Tenor-Saxophon (Sopran-Saxophon) und Klavier
Score, Parts
Item no.: 134419
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 462685
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1689996
Psalm 130 (129) für gemischten Chor und Orchester
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 326317
for: Small wind band
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 691901
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 697060
Trauermusik für Bläser
for: 2 horns (F/E-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part (anthology)
Item no.: 1563208
Music Makes The World Go Round
for: Clarinet
Item no.: 479563
Musica Sacra
for: Gemischter Chor 4 TRP, Pauken, Orgel
Score, Parts
Item no.: 473401
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