If you opt to custom-select the songs that will be sung during the funeral (standard music service instead of the free option), a list of appropriate choices for music at a funeral liturgy is provided below for your convenience. Song numbers refer to the parish’s Glory & Praise hymnal.
 

If you have a religious song or musical request not on the list, please discuss your ideas with the music director; in general, almost any song from the parish’s Glory & Praise hymnal would be suitable. It is also possible to include a specially requested Christian/religious song that is not in the parish hymnal, but that incurs an additional small fee (refer to "other optional music services" on the "Options for Musicians" page) and is subject to the music director's approval for suitability for use in Catholic worship.

Many Catholics are unaware that the Church has preselected preferred texts to be chanted at funeral Masses. Those texts, very often passages from Scripture, have an ancient and venerable history of being sung at Catholic funerals. Instead of recently composed songs, if you would prefer to have any or all of the Church's proper antiphons from the Mass for the Dead chanted in either Latin or English, the music director can provide that too. Scroll down to the section below the online form to see the antiphon texts, graphics of their musical notation, and for embedded recordings of the music director chanting them so you can hear how they sound being sung. (The free option for funeral music involves having all and only those proper chants sung during the funeral liturgy.)

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If you opt for songs to be sung during the entrance procession and during Communion, short versions of the proper entrance and Communion antiphons for a Catholic funeral Mass will still be chanted before those songs begin.

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Click on a song's title to listen to a sample recording: