August 16th, 2006

Fifty years ago, the music used at a funeral home service was limited to the available talents of an organist or pianist or a vocalist; but with the dawn of new technology and hundreds of thousands of pieces of recorded funeral music, both secular and spiritual, are now available. The music chosen for modern day celebrations of life express not only the decedent's spiritual convictions but often even more importantly, the values of the life that has been lived, and as funeral directors continue to individualize services, more secular music is being chosen to accent the avocation of the departed. While the availability of unlimited pieces of funeral music has improved the quality and appropriateness of funeral services, it has made the process of selecting the perfect music for individual memorial services and funerals more time-consuming and expensive for loved ones and particularly funeral home directors.

United States copyright law was developed in 1984, and it became necessary for funeral homes to be licensed in order to play music at services published by large music providers such as ASCAP and BMI. Thankfully, to make it easy and less expensive for funeral home directors, the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) established a group licensing program for U.S. firms that would cover royalties for all the major music providers. While this helped with the cost of licensing a bit, funeral home directors still may find themselves paying thousands of dollars per month to use music in their services. And since the license must be obtained for any funeral music used within the funeral home, they also must pay for all background music piped into the home as well as for music on-hold for their telephone systems.

More and more funeral directors are discovering the freedom of using royalty free funeral music such as that provided by Royalty Free Music.com and Award Winning Music. Because this music is royalty free music, directors must only pay a one-time fee, instead of a monthly one, and can use the music in perpetuity for as long as they like. And Royalty Free Music.com offers a diverse selection of both secular and spiritual royalty free funeral music that will individualize a service and pay proper tribute to the memory of loved ones. The royalty free music is available in a variety of inspiring styles with both simple instrumentation such as piano and more complex, fully orchestrated pieces.

Funeral directors will notice the difference that purchasing royalty free funeral music makes in their budgets as well as the unique addition it will make to their music libraries. All the high quality royalty free music available is composed and performed by artists that have worked with award winning musicians in the industry, and will illuminate all types of funerals and memorial services.

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