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:
New Bach Edition (NBA). II/4
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 139655
for: Piano, string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 145643
Arrangiert für Violoncello und Klavier
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 356319
New music for Funerals and Memorial services
for: Organ (manuals)
Music score
Item no.: 428835
Ballade
for: Tenor horn (solo), brass ensemble (7 parts), percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 817765
Chorsätze für konfessionsverbindende Gottesdienste bei Gedenktagen und Katastrophenfällen
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 582505
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 658385
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB), 1-2 Trompeten, 3-2 Posaunen, Orgel, [Pauken]
Score
Item no.: 235638
for: Flexible ensemble (5 parts), piano (school orchestra)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 565543
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285500
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 192705
aus der Bühnenmusik zu Kuolema
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 214092
25 useful hymns and pieces
for: Trumpet (B-flat), organ [piano]
Piano score, solo part (anthology)
Item no.: 210097
Music of Mourning
for: Viola (Violine, Violoncello) und Streichorchester
Orchestermaterial je 1 Violine 1, Violine 2, Bratsche, Violoncello, Kontrabass
Item no.: 733965
in freier Neugestaltung
for: Alt und Orchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 741264
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 659288
Святый
Text in kirchenslavisch (kyrillisch und transskribiert)
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), cello
Score
Item no.: 315658
für (Mezzo-)Sopran und B.c. (komplett) (complete)
for: GES-M BC
Score, Parts
Item no.: 278583
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 433981
Easily manageable and popular organ music pieces from the baroque, classical and romanticism periods
for: Organ
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 455979
pour guitare sur la mort de madame d'Orleans
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 394004
aus der Bühnenmusik zu "Kuolema"
for: Accordion
Music score
Item no.: 284955
Nr. 5 aus "Pli selon pli" (Portrait de Mallarmé)
for: für Sopran und Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 164182
Riduzione per Organo solo
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 388914
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 335322
Orgelmusik zu Trauerfeiern
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 296426
aus der Bühnenmusik zu Kuolema
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 287191
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 196758
Die 100 schönsten Melodien von Klassik bis Pop, mittelschwer arrangiert
for: Piano
Music score (anthology), 3 CDs
Item no.: 370739
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
Rekonstruktion nach der Maurerischen Trauermusik
for: Male choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 241365
(Oversize)
for: Harp
Item no.: 579776
Ach, daß ich des Wassers gnug hätte
for: GES-T (A) STR ORG
Score
Item no.: 444157
Passion cantata KV 42 (35a)
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 140633
Musik unserer Zeit
for: Viola [violin/cello], string orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 288501
from Piano Sonata op. 35
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401346
Suite d'Orchestre
Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 695811
Mitten wir im Leben sind
Totentanz für Orgel und Percussion
for: Organ, percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 654884
Dauer: 14 Minuten
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 422831
(Over A Basso Ostinato) for Piano Solo
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 356951
from "Saving Private Ryan"
for Concert Band with Optional Chorus
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 478867
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 616841
Heft 3: Pfingsten – Ende des Kirchenjahres
for: Organ (manuals)
Music score
Item no.: 496508
for Organ
For Funerals and Services of Thankgiving
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 662982
für Solo, Chor (unisono) und Klavier
for: Voice [choir (one voice)], piano
Piano score
Item no.: 149704
Comfort and Hope in Song
36 old and new songs
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 419513
For Strings op. 11
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 395390
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