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:
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung II (1725)
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 426010
"When a just man dies", In Gedenken an dem Mord an John F. Kennedy
für Mezzo-Sopran und 3 Klarinetten
for: Voice (mezzo-soprano), 3 clarinets
Vocal score
Item no.: 635215
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Choir part Bass 1,2
Item no.: 209771
Cantata for funeral service / Purification of Mary.
Reconstruction Klaus Hofmann
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233915
"Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir"
Cantata for a penitential service (version in g minor)
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 164264
(1550-1650)
An introduction
Book
Item no.: 773230
In Paradisum
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 772245
No. 50
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 322971
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 323212
Poem by Dana Gioia
for SATB and Piano
Peermusic Classical
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 620144
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 373395
Rubank Solo-Ensemble Sheet
for: Flötenquartett
Score, Parts
Item no.: 180756
20 Pieces for 5-string banjo in tablature
for: Banjo
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 656661
"Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir"
Cantata for a penitential service (version in g minor)
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233814
Cantata for the 8th Sunday after Trinity
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben Urtext
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 492895
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 373398
Trauerode für Solostimmen (SATB), gemischten Chor (SATB), Kammerorchester
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 681013
Purcell Society Edition Companion Series 5
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 769250
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 674385
Rubank Solo-Ensemble Sheet
for: Brass ensemble (5 parts)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1106947
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 377200
Piano for Four Hands
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 292571
Song–Diary on Yiddish poems by Abraham Sutzkever
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 768189
from "The Fairy Queen"
Echo
for: Voice (soprano), violin, piano
Score, part
Item no.: 303053
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Choir part Tenor 1, 2
Item no.: 432057
'Auch das Schöne muss sterben'
Breitkopf Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 284906
Hymn to the Victims of the Holocaust
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 683643
Actus tragicus. Trauermusik
BWV 106
for: Mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233629
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung II (1725)
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 202353
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 325353
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung IV (1749) mit der unvollendeten Revision 1739 im Anhang
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 657036
Long considered the noblest, most inspired musical treatment of the crucifixion of Christ, Bach's St. Matthew Passion remains an immensely popular work.
Dover Mini Scores
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 168012
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 373397
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung IV (1749) mit der unvollendeten Revision 1739 im Anhang
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 170209
For Recorder Quartet with Continuo ad lib
for: Recorder Ensemble, Piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 392735
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung IV (1749) mit der unvollendeten Revision 1739 im Anhang
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 151261
Cantata for funeral service / Purification of Mary.
Reconstruction Klaus Hofmann
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1671981
Choral Large Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317746
Choral Large Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317729
Choral Large Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317711
Begräbnismusik in drei Teilen für Singstimmen und Basso continuo
Stuttgarter Schütz-Ausgabe Urtext
for: 8 voices (SSAATTBB), organ, bass; mixed choir (SSATTB), 6 melody instruments colla parte ad lib.
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 615229
Score and Parts
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 607206
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Traditionelle Fassung (1739/1749)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (XL format)
Item no.: 665385
Azione sacra
Erstausgabe
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 237394
Geistliche Musik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321689
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 734128
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725824
for: 5 trumpets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1667664
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