Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

Three irresistible countermelodies combine in this creative original for young singers. Add the percussion for a joyous expression of the power of music. Performance Time: Approx. 2:15. Available for...

With text adapted from Song of Solomon, this soaring piece for women's choir is excellent for contest, concert or festival. New writer Laura Farnell carefully sets the text with word painting, express...

A unique concert selection based upon the poetry of William Blake. Juxtaposing the mystical nature of dreams with the vastness of the star filled nighttime sky Audrey Snyder creates a shimmering ether...

Ausgestattet mit dem Text eines lateinischen Hymnus aus dem 4. Jahrhundert, erkundet dieses feurige Stück den Kontrast zwischen Himmel und Hölle in einem neoklassizistischen Stil. Der Anlass für diese...

In ihrem Stück, das Doreen Rao und ihrem CME Institute (Choral Music Experience) gewidmet ist, erzählt Komponistin Andrea Ramsey mit musikalischen Mitteln von der Reise, die viele von uns im Leben sch...

Margaret Walker's text leaps off the musical page as words crying to be sung. 'My grandmothers were strong. They followed plows and bent to toil.' This was not frailty - this was determined womanhood....

Snow Angel is an evocative five-movement work exploring themes of love, rebirth, and beauty. It may be performed with narration and features a haunting cello line. The pictorial musical language allow...

Snow Angel is an evocative five-movement work exploring themes of love, rebirth, and beauty. It may be performed with narration and features a haunting cello line. The emotive and pictorial musical la...

This five-movement work celebrates the long Canadian winter, setting texts by the composer, Sara Teasdale, Lucy Maud Montgomery (of 'Anne of Green Gables' fame), and Melville Cane. The music conjures...

This is a beautiful setting of an evocative poem by Emily Dickinson that explores the symbolization of hope as a bird. Quartel offers soaring melodic lines, rich harmonies, and a fluttering accompanim...

In this fast and energetic piece, Quartel sets her own text celebrating the joy of singing. The melody weaves in and out of the texture, supported by dynamic vocal accompaniment and rhythmically drive...

Taken from a suite of three pieces by Cecilia McDowall called Lonely Hearts, composed in 2005, this is a light and energetic setting of a whimsical text by Christie Dickason about a lonely hearts colu...

This is a beautiful setting of an evocative poem by Emily Dickinson that explores the symbolization of hope as a bird. Quartel offers soaring melodic lines, rich harmonies, and a fluttering accompanim...

The patron saint of music is honoured in Cecilia McDowall's exuberant setting of Kate Wakeling's lyrics based on 'The Life of Saint Cecilia' in Jacobus de Voragine's 1275 The Golden Legend or Lives Of...

This is a joyful and expressive setting of the composer's own text, inspired by geographical features of Newfoundland. Wong employs gentle phrases, nimble rhythmical patterns, and a soaring solo desca...

This gentle arrangement for a cappella choir of the well-known fifteenth-century carol conjures a restful but evocatively melancholy atmosphere. The texture is varied by the use of a soprano or barito...

God is Light, published by Oxford University Press, is a deeply moving and radiant a cappella motet for five-part mixed choir (SSATB). Originally composed in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support, this comp...

I will sing and raise a psalm has a text from St Francis of Assisi and works well as a concert piece or as an anthem. The music is rewarding for organist and choir alike. The conclusion, with its evoc...

Celtic charisma with poetic polish. This reflective Christina Rossetti text sits so naturally with the haunting melody that it's hard to believe one was composed without the other. Each new counter li...

Take your time with rubato when conducting this gorgeous contemporary setting of the well-known Latin text. Delicate melodies, rich harmonies, and lush choral textures will bring out the musicality of...

A perfect way to say goodbye, this gentle piece includes words from more than one Irish blessing and boasts a slight Celtic groove. Appropriate for and appealing to choirs of all ages.

A perfect way to say goodbye, this gentle piece includes words from more than one Irish blessing and boasts a slight Celtic groove. Appropriate for and appealing to choirs of all ages.

The sorrowful text from Shakespeare's 97th sonnet is artfully set for SAB choirs with mature musical taste. Sing the liquid phrases with a beautiful line and observe the tempo nuances to attain the mo...

The title "Guarda in giù" ("Look down") is conceived on two levels. On the one hand, it stands for looking into one's own self, and on the other for the deep foundation of this composition, which is c...

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