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: Organ
Music score (hardcover)
Item no.: 142183
Trauermusik
20 Stücke
for: 4 brass instruments
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1017676
Lied ohne Worte op. 62/3
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 764613
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 198987
Mélodies célèbres transcrites
for: Trumpet [clarinet] (C/B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 469386
for: Voice (medium), organ
Item no.: 361309
for: Harmonium [organ manuals]
Item no.: 311293
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1552887
from "Saving Private Ryan"
for: Brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1562105
zus. mit Seidenspinner, Trauermarsch
for: Small wind band
Conductors part (B-flat), set of parts
Item no.: 344222
BWV 244
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach Ausgaben
Soprano in ripieno, Cantus-Firmus-Choralchor
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 1664712
for: 1–2 clarinets
Ensemble scores, CD
Item no.: 492720
for: 4 cellos
Set of parts
Item no.: 148626
for: 1–2 flutes
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 156870
Music Makes The World Go Round
for: Flexible ensemble
Conductors part (Piano)
Item no.: 479549
Blasorchester
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 588734
Blasorchester
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 588401
Chorpartitur mit Soli und Bc
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG GEISTLICH EINZELN
Item no.: 631115
for: Horn (F)
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 147742
Trauermarsch
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 294743
aus op. 100
Dvorák-Kreisler Transcriptions
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 246053
for: Harmonium [organ manuals]
Item no.: 484122
for: Guitar
Single edition
Item no.: 583315
Reihe 3 Bd 24
for: 3 VL BC / PART ST
Score, Parts
Item no.: 408259
für Streichquartett
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 312972
Klassik
for: Trompete und Klavier oder Orgel
Book
Item no.: 300231
Arrangement für vier Gitarren
for: 4 guitars (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 376564
for: Zither (6 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 151542
Die berühmte Komposition von Robert Schumann, die überall bekannt ist
for: Zither (3 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 147850
for: Harmonium [organ manuals]
Item no.: 311294
Based on Johann Pachelbel's famous "Canon In D"
Classics
for: Fanfare Band (brass & saxophones)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 675688
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 477903
Cycle of Songs
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 229274
for: Piano
Item no.: 266311
for: Guitar
Item no.: 108017
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 364143
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 578056
for: Male choir (TTBB), organ
Score
Item no.: 369365
String Quartet No. 4
in memoriam Franz Kafka
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 367887
for: Oboe [2 Oboi] [Corno Inglese] E Pf.
Score
Item no.: 388641
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 235105
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 235069
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 244002
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 149660
for: Soli SMezA, [Chor 1stg], Orgel
Score
Item no.: 144717
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 168634
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