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, string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 145643
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 556472
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB), 1-2 Trompeten, 3-2 Posaunen, Orgel, [Pauken]
Score
Item no.: 235638
The Early Symphonies
Diletto Musicale – Doblinger's Classical Music Series
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 291730
for: Organ (manuals)
Music score
Item no.: 428835
for: Flexible ensemble (5 parts), piano (school orchestra)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 565543
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285500
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 658385
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 192705
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 4532
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 214092
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 356319
für (Mezzo-)Sopran und B.c. (komplett) (complete)
for: GES-M BC
Score, Parts
Item no.: 278583
Orgelmusik zu Trauerfeiern
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 296426
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 335322
Nr. 5 aus "Pli selon pli" (Portrait de Mallarmé)
for: für Sopran und Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 164182
for: Piano
Item no.: 174157
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 394004
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), cello
Score
Item no.: 315658
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 433981
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 388914
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 196758
in freier Neugestaltung
for: Alt und Orchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 741264
for: Accordion
Music score
Item no.: 284955
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 287191
Music of Mourning
for: Viola (Violine, Violoncello) und Streichorchester
Orchestermaterial je 1 Violine 1, Violine 2, Bratsche, Violoncello, Kontrabass
Item no.: 733965
Easily manageable and popular organ music pieces from the baroque, classical and romanticism periods
for: Organ
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 455979
for: Piano
Music score (anthology), 3 CDs
Item no.: 370739
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 659288
(Oversize)
for: Harp
Item no.: 579776
Passion cantata KV 42 (35a)
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 140633
Vortrags- und Fantasiestücke für Harmonium Band 4
for: Harmonium
Music score
Item no.: 660562
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 686625
from Piano Sonata op. 35
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401346
for: Male choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 241365
for: GES-T (A) STR ORG
Score
Item no.: 444157
for: Viola [violin/cello], string orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 288501
Mitten wir im Leben sind
Totentanz für Orgel und Percussion
for: Organ, percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 654884
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 356951
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 422831
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 478867
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 695811
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Score
Item no.: 329663
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 616841
for: 2 pianos
2 music scores
Item no.: 349929
Intonationen, Vorspiele und Begleitsätze zu Beerdigungsliedern
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 580377
Heft 3: Pfingsten – Ende des Kirchenjahres
for: Organ (manuals)
Music score
Item no.: 496508
Funeral motet
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 280492
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