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FUNERAL MUSIC - SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR YOU

Colin Mawby
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Choosing funeral music can seem a daunting task on top of all your other concerns at the death of your loved one. Here are some hymns, some organ music - much available in simple arrangements, and choir pieces, to give you a starting point. Your final list should rest upon discussions with the Organist, as we show in our Funeral Music Guide.

Hymns

  • Abide with me
  • Jerusalem the Golden
  • Jesus, remember me
  • The day thou gavest, Lord
  • Praise to the Holiest
  • He who would valiant be
  • O God, our help in ages past
  • Firmly I believe, and truly
  • Lead, kindly light
  • Nearer, my God, to Thee

Organ music

  • Handel: Largo
  • Handel: Dead March from Saul
  • Walford Davies: Solemn Melody
  • Chopin: Funeral March
  • Bach: Jesu, joy of man's desiring
  • Faure: Pavane
  • Brahms: How lovely are thy dwellings
  • Beethoven: Adagio from Pathetique Sonata
  • Pachelbel: Canon in D
  • Tchaikovsky: Chanson Triste
  • Mendelssohn: On Wings of Song
  • any suitable folk or pop

Choir music

  • Faure: any movement from Requiem
  • Plainchant: any movement from Requiem
  • Purcell: Funeral Sentences
  • Bach: Jesu, Joy of man's desiring
  • Walford Davies: God be in my Head
  • Brahms: How lovely are thy Dwellings