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: Hunting horn, organ
Item no.: 460696
for: 3 clarinets (trio)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 143705
Songbook
Item no.: 444458
und Trauermotette "Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst"
Carus Classics
Audio-CD
Item no.: 238199
Bearbeitung
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 622129
for: Harmonium [organ manuals]
Item no.: 344433
Zehn Transkriptionen aus dem Werk Robert Schumanns
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 581253
for: Organ
Item no.: 477492
Trauermusik für 6 Bläser
Direktion in C
for: Brass ensemble (6 voices)
Conductors part
Item no.: 187271
Klassik
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 563976
for: Trumpet
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 334604
für Streichquartett
String Attack
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 292396
Madrigal-Zyklus
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1654906
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 696374
for: 3 horns (F)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1561015
Textheft
Lyric book
Item no.: 235904
Funeral motet
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 587104
Schriftenreihe der Internat. Bachakademie Stuttgart 2/5
CD-ROM
Item no.: 466128
Azione sacra
Erstausgabe
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 237395
Bass Posaune & Streicher
for: Bass trombone, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591250
Brass Band
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 594606
Fassungen von 1767 und 1803
Haydn Gesamtausgabe XXII, Band 1
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 314394
Early version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 444392
Three male choruses on folk poems
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 113416
For A.A.T.B. (Or S.A.T.B.) Saxophone Quartet
for: 2 Alt-Saxophone (Sopran-Saxophon), Tenor-Saxophon und Bariton-Saxophon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 605398
Transcription facile
Pianino 133
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 584720
Kontrabass ad lib
Partitur und Stimmen
for: Streichquartett, Kontrabass ad libitum
Score, part
Item no.: 577749
The Early Symphonies
Diletto Musicale – Doblinger's Classical Music Series
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 291735
Vortrags- und Fantasiestücke für Harmonium Band 1
for: Harmonium
Music score
Item no.: 660456
für Viola und Orgel (Klavier)
String Attack
for: Viola, piano [organ]
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 410308
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 154515
for: gemischter Chor (SAATTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 742358
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 310850
for: Organ
Item no.: 162017
for: Piano
Item no.: 355955
12 Classical Favorites Played in Jazz Style
for: Guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 655275
String Quartet No. 3
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 340239
for: Guitar
Songbook
Item no.: 326272
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 627482
for: Trumpet (B-flat), organ
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 180184
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB), 1-2 Trompeten, 3-2 Posaunen, Orgel, [Pauken]
Score
Item no.: 371392
op. 9/3
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 751888
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 613134
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 331223
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 237915
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 234888
for: SOLI gemischter Chor Bläser, Streicher, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 234828
for: Cello, piano
Score
Item no.: 388643
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