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: Horn (F), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 596403
Marianische Themen für Orgel
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 562851
for: Mixed choir (SATB), brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 672018
Solo für Kornett, Es-Horn, Euphonium, Posaune, Bass-Posaune, Es-Basstuba oder B-Basstuba
for: Voice [cornet, horn, trombone, euphonium], brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 671768
3 Transkriptionen für Gitarre
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 367920
for: Brass ensemble (5 parts)
Score (C), Parts
Item no.: 597175
Euphonium & Streicher
for: Euphonium, strings
Sheet music
Item no.: 591341
Flute & Streicher
for: Flute, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 596904
Flute & Streicher
for: Flute, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 596903
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 590155
Fagott & Klavier
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 590152
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 206427
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 666459
Easy Winners
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 168444
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 389067
EHWV 116
for: Frauenchor (SSAA) a cappella, 2 Soli (SA) ad libitum
Choir score
Item no.: 261679
Easy Piano
for: Piano; voice ad lib.
Single edition
Item no.: 578208
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 488146
for: Small wind band
Score
Item no.: 375825
Item no.: 163199
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 131393
Fantasieop. 52/ 6D 839
for: Piano
Item no.: 356403
for: Trumpet (B-flat) [flugelhorn], concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 668602
for: Voice, piano [organ]
Item no.: 607355
for: Trumpet, piano
Item no.: 112505
Klassik
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 461770
D major
for: tiefe Singstimme und Klavier; Violine (Violoncello) ad libitum
Music score
Item no.: 724110
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 320462
für Frauenchor mit Orchester- oder Orgelbegleitung
Piano reduction
Item no.: 361052
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 273017
for: Voice, piano [organ]
Item no.: 479212
Meditation über das erste Präludium aus dem Wohltemperierten Klavier von Johann Sebastian Bach
for: Voice (medium/high), piano
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 1230
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 257997
Meditation on the first Prelude C major from "The Well-Tempered Clavier"
for: Piano
Noten Original-Ausgabe
Item no.: 749046
für Sopran, gemischten Chor und Streicher
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), strings
Piano reduction
Item no.: 382689
aus "Sechs religiöse Gesänge", op. 157 (Nr. 6)
for: Voice (medium), organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2412
for: 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons (winds octet)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 642202
Edition Schott
for: Voice, piano [organ]
Music score
Item no.: 756362
op. 100, Nr. 19
für Klavier
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2361
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 493052
for: FCH ORCH (ORG)
Score
Item no.: 175444
Stimmensatz Streicher
Set of parts
Item no.: 610404
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 302322
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Item no.: 363843
for: Singstimme (mittel), Orgel (Frauenchor ad libitum)
Score
Item no.: 375889
Ave-Maria-Glöcklein
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 193965
for: Tenor saxophone [soprano saxophone], piano [organ]
Item no.: 225797
Meditation über das erste Präludium aus dem Wohltemperierten Klavier von Johann Sebastian Bach
bearbeitet für Oboe und Klavier
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part, audio file
Item no.: 1238
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