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: für Chor SSA
Choir score
Item no.: 112802
für Sopran oder Tenor oder Melodieinstrument (C,B,Es,F) solo
for: Voice [melody instrument (C/B-flat/E-flat/F)], concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 667760
Trompete & Streicher
for: Trumpet, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591327
Klavier Solo
for: Viola, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 591295
for: Organ
Item no.: 281549
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 552553
for: Violin, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 590145
for: Accordion orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 126832
op. 52/6D 839
for: Streichquartett, Kontrabass (ad libitum)
Score, part
Item no.: 561400
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 334316
for: Accordion
Music score
Item no.: 147170
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 456451
Edition Pro Salon
for: Flute, clarinet, 2 violins, cello, double bass, piano
Item no.: 137168
for: gleiche Stimmen (SMezA)
Choir score
Item no.: 742592
for: Voice (high), piano
Single edition
Item no.: 658889
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 554860
for: GES (2-3) ORG
Score
Item no.: 291009
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 616018
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB), Orchester (2 Cornetti, Pauken, 2 Violinen, Violoncello / Kontrabass, Orgel)
Score
Item no.: 237777
for: Soli (SSAATTB), gemischter Chor (SSAATTB), Orgel
Score
Item no.: 235643
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 105874
for: Accordion orchestra
Score
Item no.: 143895
for: Mixed choir (SATB); double bass, organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 137592
for: 2 voices (SA), organ
Score
Item no.: 423759
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 490704
for: Cello (oder Celli (3) oder Celli (5)), Klavier
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 148589
for: GES-H VL ORG
Item no.: 283365
for: GCH (SSAATTBB) HA
Choir score
Item no.: 582591
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 297306
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317507
for: Voice (high), organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2413
for: Voice (high), basso continuo
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 2382
Heft 1
Partitur
for: Flute, 2 violins, viola, cello; piano ad lib.
Item no.: 111056
for: Voice (medium/low), piano
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 1232
for: Voice (high), piano
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 1229
for: String orchestra
Item no.: 616236
für eine Singstimme und Orgel
for: Voice (high), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 241750
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 145419
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Item no.: 420535
for: Piano
Item no.: 356507
for: 2 Soprane (Sopran/Alt) und Orgel
Item no.: 477531
for: Zither (5 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 151147
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 627398
for: Voice (tenor)
Book
Item no.: 479795
for: Voice, piano [organ]
Music score
Item no.: 486712
zusammen mit Schubert, F.: Ave Maria, tief (D-Dur)
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score
Item no.: 1668101
(zus. mit Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria)
for: Alt (Bariton) und Klavier
Music score
Item no.: 760376
für Singstimme (Alt), Violine und Orgel
for: Voice (alto), violin, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 677116
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