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 (SATB), chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 469373
for: Organ
Score
Item no.: 278817
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB), Orchester (2 Violinen, Viola, Violone, Orgel)
Score
Item no.: 278104
for: Voice (medium), piano
Score
Item no.: 283343
for: Soli SS, Orgel / Klavier
Score
Item no.: 268982
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 577439
Play eight Selections as recorded by the Piano Guys
Hal Leonard Piano Play Along Volume 9
for: Piano
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 675586
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 556876
for: Sopran (und Tenor ad libitum), Violine (Violoncello) und Klavier
Score, Parts
Item no.: 106101
for Bb Bass and Piano
for: Tuba (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 596410
für Mezzosopran (Bariton) und Orgel
WoO 34
for: Voice, organ
Organ score, Vocal score
Item no.: 662133
for: Mezzo-Sopran (Bariton) und Klavier
Item no.: 105986
for God and Country – Library of Series
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Songbook
Item no.: 470452
for: Brass winds (4 parts)
Score (C)
Item no.: 1713423
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 558730
for: Flute, piano
Sheet music, audio file
Item no.: 2062
for: Voice (medium/high), piano
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 1479
for: Zither (6 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 151148
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 135152
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 273897
for: Voice (medium), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 106038
for: für Gesang und Klavier
Item no.: 290251
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 550784
Ritmo de Carnavalito
for: Voice, piano
Ensemble score
Item no.: 363256
(Violin clef)
for: Baritone horn (B-flat)
Item no.: 276908
Ave Maris Stella
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 473130
for: Voice [melody instrument (C/B-flat)], concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 667494
Tenor Saxophone & Streicher
for: Tenor saxophone, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591372
Euphonium & Streicher
for: Euphonium, strings
Sheet music
Item no.: 591343
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 270966
Choral Concert Series
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 185116
Violoncello & Streicher
for: Cello solo, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 591265
Bass Posaune & Streicher
for: Bass trombone, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591251
für Violine und Streichorchester
Partitur und Stimmen (solo-10-8-3--6-4-3)
for: Violin, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 596869
for: Salon orchestra
Additional parts
Item no.: 289719
Angelus Domini
für Frauenchor (2 Frauenchöre oder Soloterzett und 4-stimmiger Frauenchor)
for: 3 soloists (SSA), women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 462084
for: Flute
Item no.: 163989
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 483961
Meditation on the first Prelude C Major from the Well-tempered Piano by J. S. Bach
for: hohe Singstimme und Klavier; Violine (Violoncello) ad libitum
Music score
Item no.: 749047
for: Male choir; piano ad lib.
Item no.: 462889
for: GES-T ORG (KLAV)
Item no.: 283352
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 212118
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 151319
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 258202
for: Medium High Voice and Piano
Book
Item no.: 178351
for: SOLI GCH 2 FL 2 HRN
Score
Item no.: 491187
for: Accordion orchestra
Score
Item no.: 126831
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