Music for Mourning Sheet Music

Lamento was composed in memory of Bjarne Haug Thesen (1957-2023). Bjarne came from Nord-Odal and had his musical base in Mo Skolemusikk and Nord-Odal Hornmusikk. In 1987, he was elected vice-president...

8 Chorlieder mit modernen Messtexten Die Trost- und Gedenkmesse berührt harmonisch und melodisch in ihrer klassischen, innigen Schlichtheit. Die leichte Singbarkeit ermöglicht eine Interpretation mit...

Arrangement for women's choir or children's choir a cappella. The notated chord symbols give the opportunity for creative alternative interpretations.

Arrangement for women's choir or children's choir a cappella. The notated chord symbols give the opportunity for creative alternative interpretations.

Arrangement for women's choir or children's choir a cappella. The notated chord symbols give the opportunity for creative alternative interpretations.

Arrangement for women's choir or children's choir a cappella. The notated chord symbols give the opportunity for creative alternative interpretations.

Arrangement for women's choir or children's choir a cappella. The notated chord symbols give the opportunity for creative alternative interpretations.

William Bolcom composed both words and music for these urban madrigals, written for The Western Wind a cappella group in 1970. Each madrigal depicts a slice of New York City life in the early 1970's,...

Uses: Remembrance, Funeral, Memorial Day, Patriotic Scripture: Psalm 23 Written as a remembrance to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States, this introspective elegy is a moving...

This important Requiem demonstrates Gabriel Jackson's gift for writing mesmerising choral music on a large scale. Combining sections of the traditional Requiem text with poems from other cultures and...

Setting an original Latin text by the Venerable Bede intertwined with an English translation, this piece is homophonic and by turns ecstatic and calmly contemplative. It is particularly suitable for A...

This tender arrangement of the well-loved Irish folk melody Londonderry Air sets an uplifting poem by Howard Walter: a stirring combination of music and text that was also used at the funeral of Diana...

This short collection presents the complete set of meditations from Chilcott's St John Passion. Setting English poems from the 13th to the early 17th centuries, the meditations provide a very personal...

Setting an original Latin text by the Venerable Bede intertwined with an English translation, this piece is homophonic and by turns ecstatic and calmly contemplative. It is particularly suitable for A...

This short collection presents the complete set of meditations from Chilcott's St John Passion. Setting English poems from the 13th to the early 17th centuries, the meditations provide a very personal...

Originally conceived as a funeral piece, this moving motet is full of elegant, unhurried lines, and pays final respect to the deceased. Originally published in AStanford Anthology.

A moving work written by Tavener in loving memory of his father. For solo tenor (or baritone) and unaccompanied choir SATB, with optional strings.

In Memory was written in memory of Glen Schaefer, and all the departed souls of America. The words come from the Orthodox Funeral Service and from a text by Mother Thekla. For SATB Choir A Cappella. J...

Composer's Note 'The words of this piece are taken from the poem They are all gone into the world of light by Henry Vaughan. The music came to me after attending the beautiful and moving funeral of Ma...

Dimitri Stepanowitsch Bortniansky (1751-1825) seems to have composed the majority of his liturgical works and most of his Sacred Concertos in the 1780s and 1790s, before he was appointed Kapellmeister...

Dimitri Stepanowitsch Bortniansky (1751-1825) seems to have composed the majority of his liturgical works and most of his Sacred Concertos in the 1780s and 1790s, before he was appointed Kapellmeister...