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Thread: What do you want to be played at your funeral?
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George Spigot
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Just read my post and I swear to all thats holy I did not at all see any pun between cremation and the song title until just now!
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Sometimes in a bad mood, I think I'd like to have The Road to Nowhere by the Talking Heads. . .with the assembled mourners singing the lyrics, including the shouts and grunts.
But then my saner self prevails. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Lyda*Rose
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Seriously, I'd like to have "I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light". It always makes me yearn for Heaven. ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
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"We ain't gonna take it" by Twisted Sister.
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Chorister
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I'd like to have the choir sing the Nunc Dimittis (don't mind which chant, probably the one they know best at the time, so the singing sounds confident).
Given enough confident voices, I'd also have 'Beati Quoram Via' (Stanford), although 'God be in my head' (Walford Davies) might be better if resources are low.
But I shan't come back to haunt my family if they decide on other music - I'll be past caring by then and they're the ones who have to choose stuff to help them through. As long as they don't choose 'Ding, dong, the witch is dead', in which case, obviously, I'll haunt them until the Twelfth of Never.
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Tree Bee
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All Things Must Pass, either by George or Paul, I don't mind.
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Nenya
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"Into the West" by Fran Walsh and Howard Shore, sung by Annie Lennox.
[ 23. June 2012, 16:34: Message edited by: Nenya ]
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Polly Plummer
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Purcell's music for the funeral of Queen Mary, performed of course by brilliant singers and instrumentalists.
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Schroedinger's cat
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An old song by a band who have not yet been born, and who will not produce any music for another 60 years.
REM "Everybody hurts" would be good. And "from the river" as people were leaving.
Some part of me would also like "November Rain", with the final piece just starting as the coffin goes through the curtains.
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Ode to Joy, Beethoven. It's a family tradition since apparently the 1920s, played at funerals and weddings.
Amazing Grace, however will be distinctly not played, as this has come up in the last 30 years or so as a funeral cliché within our opinionated living and deceased family members.
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Adeodatus
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My two essentials are a recording of Gundula Janowitz singing Strauss' 'Beim Schlafengehen' and a good recording of 'Soave sia il vento'. Kitsch? Yes. Camp? Yes. But I'll be dead - and de mortuis nil nisi bonum*.
* Usually translated 'never speak ill of the dead'.
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Qoheleth.
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The complete Barbirolli/Halle Dream of Gerontius, please.
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Ariston
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Mahler's "Urlicht," best known for being the fourth movement in his second symphony.
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Matariki
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A bit left field here but "Into the Sun" by Jason Arthur.
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Kelly Alves
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Hm.
You know what? "Shosholoza."
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Gee D
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Another vote for "God be in my head"; I also want "If you love me", and Psalm 23 only if it's the psalm for the day.
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Mary LA
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God of Mercy and Compassion. If I die in Lent or Passiontide.
Or O Love That Will Not Let Me Go.
Or Shoshaloza.
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Chorister
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It would be rather good to be played out to the strains of Bach's St. Anne Fugue. (Variations on 'O God our help in ages past')
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Huia
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Originally posted by Nenya:
"Into the West" by Fran Walsh and Howard Shore, sung by Annie Lennox.
I chose that for my mother's funeral and now no one else in the family can bear to listen to it.
I'd like it too, if they let me.
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jedijudy
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Bach's Toccata in C BWV 564, and 'And Can It Be' for one of the hymns.
(BTW, this guy on the YouTube is doing a nice job on the tracker with the coupled manuals...your pinkies must be strong to do so!)
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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To say nothing of his pedalwork. Wow! What a beautiful instrument and a great performance!
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Spike
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Without a doubt, I want the Sumsion Nunc Dimitis in G. I'd also like "O Jesus I have promised". That's for the serious stuff in church.
At the Crem, I'd like a Barber Shop Quartet singing "My comrades, when I'm no more drinking"
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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To say nothing of his pedalwork. Wow! What a beautiful instrument and a great performance!
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The5thMary
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Let's see... a few selections from the John Rutter "Requiem" but I'd have to go listen to it now to decide which sections I'd want sung.
"Follow me, follow you" ? Not sure of the exact title but it's by Genesis, and Phil Collins sings it.
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Albertus
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Another vote for Purcell's funeral music for Queen Mary.
Or if we're looking for something simpler, the Old Hundredth.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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When my father died I had to pick the hymns for his funeral, and chose the 23rd Psalm to Crimond (I was younger then and not very 'churched') - only to discover afterwards that he had loathed it!
So I have made things easier for my family by writing down what *I* want at mine.
Before the service, "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" (Vaughan Williams); and during, "Blessed be your name" by Matt Redman; Robin Marks' "Days of Elijah" and "How deep the Father's love for me" (Stuart Townend). THAT should have them all in floods by the end.
Oh, and "Guide me O thou great Jehovah" as a nod to my Welsh heritage!
Mrs S. gleefully choosing all the music for once! ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
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MSHB
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Spem in alium.
That way, at least 40 people will have to turn up for my funeral (41 if you count the conductor).
PS: for "played at my funeral" read "performed at my funeral".
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture:
Let's see... a few selections from the John Rutter "Requiem" but I'd have to go listen to it now to decide which sections I'd want sung.
Surely "Out of the Deep", "Pie Jesu", "The Lord is My Shepherd" with the "I am the Resurrection" bridge passage leading up to it, and "Lux Aeterna" again with the bridge passage "I heard a voice from heaven". The Requiem is the only Rutter I can listen to.
At my funeral: the Dvorak 23rd Psalm (my mother's favorite, done at her funeral although the pianist ruined it), the African-American spiritual "Steal Away", and "I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say" to Tallis' Third Tune.
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Bob Two-Owls
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Supertsar by Black Sabbath, and I want an open casket funeral with me dressed as Emperor Ming the Merciless.
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Adeodatus
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quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
Cricket.
An Ashes match, presumably?
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IceQueen
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Apart from Purcell's glorious and aforementioned Funeral Music, I would like Raymond Warren's choral setting of C S Lewis'
What the bird said, early in the year.
Words of hope, and Professor Warren's finest music, in my opinion.
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Anna B
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I was just thinking the other day what a lovely funeral processional "The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended" would make.
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MarsmanTJ
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I'd like either played (or ideally sung by a decent choir) the closing 'God shall wipe away all tears' from The Armed Man, by Karl Jenkins. And another vote for Beati Quorum Via.
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Og, King of Bashan
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I have a gradually evolving lists of hymns. "Ye Holy Angels Bright" and "They Cast their Nets in Galilee" are two of the mainstays.
If there is a choir, as I said a few weeks ago on another thread, I would like Friedell's "Draw us In the Spirits Tether."
But for the real musical fireworks, you will have to wait for the procession out and around the block to the reception, which should look something like this.
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busyknitter
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Teenage Kicks by the Undertones followed by Mozart's Requiem (all of it).
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balaam
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I've always thought going throgh the curtain to The Trammps Disco Inferno would be a good way to go out.
In saner moments, and because not everybody's sense of humour is as dark as mine, U2's Gloria would be a good choice.
Forever Young sounds like a good choice, but for me it would be Joan Baez version (Sorry Zappa,I am an heretick.)
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I would like Arthur Sullivan's "God Shall Wipe Away All Tears".
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Piglet
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The Old Hundredth (Vaughan Williams' arrangement) and Guide me, O thou great Jehovah with the descant, Psalm 76 to the Purcell chant based on the Queen Mary funeral music (with percussion would be fun ...), Byrd's Mass for Four Voices and the Nunc dimittis from Gibbons' Short Service.
Organ music should include Howells' Master Tallis's Testament before the service and Susato's La mourisque and the Battle Pavane afterwards.
The Sortie in E♭ by Lefebure-Wely has become a bit of a family fixture; D. played it by request at the funerals of my brother-in-law and my mother, but it is very silly ... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Oh yes, and if they use anything other than the Book of Common Prayer and the Authorised Version of the Bible, I'll come back and haunt them. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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Bernard Mahler
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quote:
Originally posted by Anna B:
I was just thinking the other day what a lovely funeral processional "The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended" would make.
I've listed it -played by a military band as the Naval Sunset Hymn.
Also Barber's Adagio for Strings and Nimrod.
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Prelude Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring Bach
1st hymn Abide With Me
Psalm 23rd Crimond
2nd hymn Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah
Recessional Jerusalem
Postlude Elgars Variations Nimrod
These would be my selections for a church funeral.Of course in 30+ years that might no longer be the done thing. And of course what does
one chices for music for ones own funeral do for the mourners ? Maybe the music should be uplifting happy stuff . ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
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Marvin the Martian
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quote:
Originally posted by Adeodatus:
quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
Cricket.
An Ashes match, presumably?
*rimshot*
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Selmo
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My daughter has asked that, should she turn up her toes before I do, our small worship band (including me on drums)perform Norman Greenbaum's 1969 hit "Spirit in the sky" for her.
As for myself, I want to go out to the strains of Vivaldi's "Gloria". (A Methodist requesting a song in Latin; I must be loosing my marbles.)
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ProgenitorDope
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There's a song by my favorite group, Nightwish, called "The Islander." It IS about suicide, yes, but the lyrics are about casting off misery and the tune is appropriate enough, I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5juc6fmgylw
Though that choice may be influenced by being in the misery of bar prep right now. Normally, I'd want to be buried as I lived: irreverant and trying to make people laugh. As such, "Don't Fear the Reaper" with whoever owed me the most money having to play "more cowbell" throughout.
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We don't have a choir, so I want the congregation to raise the roof. Opening hymn Guide me O thou Great Jehovah, then Praise to the Holiest in the Height [Gerontius] closing with Thine be the Glory Risen Conquering Son. I was going to have the Shepherd Song setting of the 23rd Psalm until my wife vetoed the 23rd altogether, so I have to rethink that element. Had thought of a couple of modern settings to be sung during communion, but I think I might have to run them past her as well.
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Bernard Mahler
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In addition to my previous choice, I suggest, quite theologically, "Happy Birthday to You".
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