SPIRITUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY FUNERALS - MUSIC CHOSEN FOR FUNERALS
Funeral Type of music
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Secular and popular with
overtly religious content
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Hymns sung by
congregation
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Hymns sung by
congregation and
popular music CDs
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Secular and popular with
overtly religious content
Secular popular music
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Hymns on CD
Secular popular music
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Secular and popular with
overtly religious content
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Secular popular music
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Hymns on CD
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Hymn and instrumental
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Secular popular and
instrumental including
hymn tunes
Secular popular music
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Secular popular music
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Secular popular music
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Secular popular music
Music item
‘Mammy why did God take my Daddy’
‘Stand by me’
‘Walk through this world with me’
I the Lord of sea and sky - at the start
In bread we bring you lord our bodies’ labour - offertory
Soul of my Saviour, sanctify my breast )
Christ be beside me, Christ be before me) –during communion
I will be with you wherever you go
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I know that my Redeemer lives- during censing of coffin
I cannot tell why He whom angels worship – recessional
The Lord’s my shepherd
Abide with me
‘Since I first saw your face’ for entry, another popular song for
exit
Elvis Presley ‘Burning Love’
Mario Lanza ‘Walk with God’
Pan Pipes ‘Wind beneath my wings’
Barry White song ‘ You’re my everything’
instrumental hymn tunes – crematorium choice
Spandau Ballet ‘True’
Bon Jovi ‘In these arms’
‘Red Red Robin’ Hull KR song
Eva Cassidy ‘Song Bird’
Cindy Lauper ‘Time after Time’
Andrea Bocelli ‘The Prayer’
Family withdrew
Queen –‘Take my breath away’
‘I sing it one last time for you’
‘Summer Sun’
Harry Secombe ‘Amazing Grace’
Harry Secombe ‘Ave Maria’
‘Abide with me’ sung by a singer
Live jazz saxophone by a friend of the deceased for entry, exit
and in the middle
Ronan Keating ‘If tomorrow never comes’
Live bagpipes ‘Last Goodbye’, ‘Amazing grace’, ‘Abide with
me’
Faith Hill ‘There You'll Be’
Bette Midler ‘The wind beneath my wings’
‘The Rose’
‘The power of love’
‘ You’ll never walk alone’
‘On The Street Where You Live’
‘The way we were’
‘Familiar places’
Abba ‘Super Trooper’
Simon & Garfunkel ‘Bridge over troubled water’
Abba ‘I believe in angels’
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Hymns sung by
congregation and
popular music CDs
Classical
Gospel songs on CD
Hymns sung
/instrumental, popular
song with religious
content
Secular popular music
Hymns sung by
congregation
Hymn and overtly
religious music on CD
Secular popular and
overtly religious music
on CD
Hymns on CD/organ
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Hymn sung by
congregation and
popular music CDs
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Hymns sung by
congregation and
instrumental
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Secular popular music
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Secular popular music
and popular music with
religious content
Secular popular music
and popular music with
religious content
Hymn on CD and popular
secular music
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Classical and popular
secular music
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Popular secular music
Elvis Presley ‘Love me tender’
Beatles ‘In my life’
‘Abide with me’ sung by congregation
Puccini arias
‘Your love’s lifting me higher’
‘Happy Days’
Instrumental hymn tunes by organist for entry and exit (chosen
by organist)
‘Abide with me’ sung by congregation
Robson and Jerome ‘I believe’
Jim Reeves’ I love you because’ and ‘I won’t forget you’
‘Welcome to my world’
Jehovah’s Witness songs
Cesar Franck ‘Panis Angelicus’
Exit music Morning has broken on CD
Hank Williams ‘Have I told you that I love you ‘
Bette Midler ‘Wind beneath my wings’
‘Pie Jesu’ from Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Requiem
Crem music instrumental hymn “Love one another” for entry
and exit.
‘Abide with me’ on CD
‘Abide with me’ sung by congregation
Bette Midler ‘Wind beneath my wings’
Frank Sinatra ‘My Way’
Matt Munro ‘Softly as I leave you ‘
‘Rock of ages’ instrumental by organist for entry
‘The King of love my Shepherd is’ and ‘Praise my soul the King
of heaven’ sung
‘Make me a channel of thy peace’ instrumental by organist for
exit
‘A ballad for Adeline’
‘Love is a many splendored thing’
Family withdrew
No music
Elvis Presley ‘Crying in the chapel’
Elvis Presley ‘Only you’
Elvis Costello ‘She’
Bette Midler ‘From a distance’
Johnny Cash ‘Walk the line’
Harry Secombe ‘The Old Rugged Cross’
‘Mama’
‘Time to say goodbye’
Handel ‘Water music’
‘Never forget’
Michael Bolton ‘Missing you now’
Lakme Flower Duet
Roger Whittaker ‘The Last Farewell’
‘Red Red Robin’
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Classical and popular
secular music
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Hymn and instrumental
organ music
Classical
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Classical
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Hymns and classical
organ music
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Popular secular music
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Classical religious
Hymn and popular
secular music
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Psalms
Hymns, religious songs
and classical organ music
Beethoven ‘Moonlight sonata’
Louis Armstrong ‘Wonderful world’
Eva Cassidy ‘Over the rainbow’
‘Nearer my God to thee’ sung by congregation
organ music for entry and exit
Vaughan Williams ‘The Lark ascending’
Schubert ‘Adagio for String Quintet’
Beethoven ‘Quartet from Fidelio’
Organ music throughout, entry and exit not identified, middle
‘Dreaming’ by Schumann
‘O love that will not let me go’
‘Love divine all loves excelling’
‘Amazing grace’
organ music for entry and exit - Bach, Handel and
Mendelssohn
At graveside Barbra Streisand ‘Evergreen’
At hotel Glen Miller as people assembled and at end
Frank Sinatra ‘My Way’
Michael Buble ‘That’s life’
Barbra Streisand ‘Don’t rain on my parade’
Allegri ‘Miserere’
‘I vow to thee my country’ by singer on CD
‘Now we are free’ from the film Gladiator
‘Somewhere there’s a place for us’ from West Side Story
‘To where you are’
‘The power of love’
‘Are you going to San Francisco’
Jewish psalms
Funeral: ‘Come thou long expected Jesus’
‘Loving shepherd of thy sheep’
‘One more step along the world I go’
Memorial service: ‘All creatures of our God and King’
‘Eternal father strong to save’
‘One more step along the world I go’
‘All my hope on God is founded’
Memorial: ‘Let there be peace on earth’
‘Jesu joy of man’s desiring’
organ music at beginning chosen by organist