# Queen Elizabeth's funeral music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [September 17, 2022, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeths-funeral-music/971715 "2022-09-17T02:49:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2022, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeths-funeral-music/971715/1 "2022-09-17T02:49:20Z")
Let’s talk about it, starting with the procession of the casket from Buckingham to Westminster Palace. Likes, dislikes, most and least favorite? What are you hoping to hear, or not hear, on Monday? All the high Anglican stuff is musical catnip to me. Loved the chant when the casket was carried into Westminster Palace, “Lord, thou hast searched me and known me.” (Was that setting written for the occasion, by chance?) And the Bairstow, wow, I’ve sung that in choir years ago but forgotten about those magnificent dissonances. Here it is: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jZMZfALpIQ) I do wonder if they’ll stick to the high-church stuff, or if they’ll do Candle in the Wind or something (not literally that, but you know what I mean). ---
**Author:** ![Feurmann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/779978/32.png) [@Feurmann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feurmann)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeths-funeral-music/971715/2 "2022-09-18T05:21:07Z")
Funeral Sentences and Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, by Purcell. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeths-funeral-music/971715/3 "2022-09-18T05:48:27Z")
Sex Pistols? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeths-funeral-music/971715/4 "2022-09-18T06:22:25Z")
Paul MacCartney singing “Her Majesty” at the very end. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeths-funeral-music/971715/5 "2022-09-18T06:55:33Z")
Due to be announced today, I believe. The setting of “Lord, thou hast searched me” was by [James O’Donnell](https://www.classical-music.com/features/artists/who-is-james-odonnell/). ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeths-funeral-music/971715/6 "2022-09-18T14:20:41Z")
Tears and Celebrations, Katherine Jenkins’ new hymn of remembrance is surely in with a chance: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/HNeqtk7EyCs/maxresdefault.jpg "Tears and Celebration - Katherine Jenkins (Official Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNeqtk7EyCs) ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeths-funeral-music/971715/7 "2022-09-18T16:32:07Z")
Thank you! The occasion rated an original setting, for sure. I completely forgot about the St. Giles Cathedral service. [Full order of service for today's thanksgiving service for Queen Elizabeth](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2022/09/12/full-order-service-todays-thanksgiving-service-queen-elizabeth/) Livestream queued at “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee,” Samuel Wesley: [Queen Elizabeth’s Coffin Carried From Holyrood Palace to St. Giles' Cathedral - YouTube](https://youtu.be/Xe5USlxPp3g?t=2791) (Score: [Thou Wilt Keep Him in Perfect Peace - Wesley - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZDPcXOl7Mw)) ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeths-funeral-music/971715/8 "2022-09-18T17:03:42Z")
[Another One Bites the Dust](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE), by Queen? ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeths-funeral-music/971715/9 "2022-09-19T08:17:54Z")
Here are the orders of service for today: > **[The Queen: order of service for state funeral at Westminster Abbey](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/18/the-queen-order-of-service-for-state-funeral-at-westminster-abbey)** > > The full order of service for the state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey in London on 19 September [https://www.westminster-abbey.org/media/15467/order-of-service-the-state-funeral-of-her-majesty-queen-elizabeth-ii.pdf](https://www.westminster-abbey.org/media/15467/order-of-service-the-state-funeral-of-her-majesty-queen-elizabeth-ii.pdf)