Memorial Service Music Selections & Audio
These lists are intended for families to use in making music selections for a memorial service.
Clicking on highlighted text will allow you to hear an audio clip from that piece.
Note that not every piece listed has an audio clip associated with it.
Pieces listed are for solo harp. Contact me for information about booking a harp and flute duo.
Enter choices in this form.
Clicking on highlighted text will allow you to hear an audio clip from that piece.
Note that not every piece listed has an audio clip associated with it.
Pieces listed are for solo harp. Contact me for information about booking a harp and flute duo.
Enter choices in this form.
Prelude:
Music During Service - Contemplative
Music During Service - Sacred
Music During Service - Secular
Postlude
- Styles: Classical, sacred, contemplative, folk [See examples at "Listen - Music Styles & Samples."]
- Special requests: I can include any songs from the lists below. If you are interested in a selection not on the lists, let me know. I can almost always accommodate special requests.
Music During Service - Contemplative
- Acceptance (Janet Collison)
- Ashokan Farewell (Jay Ungar, arr. Friou)
- Going Home (Antonin Dvorak, arr. Tonioli)
- Gratitude (Kim Robertson)
Music During Service - Sacred
- Amazing Grace (Traditional, arr. McDonald and Wood)
- Be Still, My Soul (Jean Sibelius, arr. Burton)
- Be Thou My Vision (Traditional, arr. Burton/Brumwell)
- Deep River (Harry Burleigh, arr. Staneslow)
- God Be with You Till We Meet Again (William Tomer, arr. Alexander)
- Great Is Thy Faithfulness (William Runyan, arr. Staneslow)
- It Is Well with My Soul (Philip Bliss, arr. Tonioli)
- Nearer, My God, to Thee (Lowell Mason, arr. Staneslow)
- On Eagle’s Wings (Michael Joncas, arr. Ice)
- Softly and Tenderly, Jesus is Calling (Will Thompson, arr. Wienand)
- What a Friend We Have in Jesus (Charles Converse, arr. Ray)
- When Peace, Like a River (Philip Bliss, arr. Burton)
- see a longer list of sacred options here
Music During Service - Secular
- Angels Among Us (Becky Hobbs and Don Goodman)
- Go Rest High on the Mountain (Vince Gill)
- Angel (Sarah McLachlan)
- Over the Rainbow (Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, arr. Fell)
- Somewhere Out There (James Horner, Barry Mann, and Cynthia Weil, arr. Lovelace)
- Think of Me (Andrew Lloyd Webber, arr. Woods)
- What a Wonderful World (George David Weiss and Bob Thiele, arr. Bradley)
- The Wind Beneath My Wings (Larry Henley and Jeff Silbar, arr. Coates)
- You Raise Me Up (Brendan Graham and Rolf Lovland)
- many others available upon request
Postlude
- Styles: sacred, secular, classical, contemplative [See examples above]
- Song choice: You may request any song from the lists above. If you are interested in a selection not on the lists, let me know. I can almost always accommodate special requests.