Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

Dedication is a musical statement of self-discovery and self-love from a Black female perspective. The piece features intense rhythmic vitality with heavy syncopation, fluctuating between powerful uni...

Anne Boyd began studying at the Department of Music at the University of Sydney in 1963 where her principal composition teacher was Peter Sculthorpe. A number of her works were performed at the Intern...

Premiered at the 2005 ACDA convention, this setting of a poem by William Butler Yeats begs the listener to tread softly on our dreams. Available for SSAA and TTBB.

Commissioned by the Alliance for Arts and Understanding for the 2004 Alliance World Festival, with uplifting text by Minnie Louise Haskins - Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown -...

This joyful new a cappella work is an excellent contest and concert piece. Well-crafted part writing makes this a fine choice for developing tuning, phrasing and choral style. Available: SSA a cappell...

As plentiful as the grass that grows, the sands on the shore, the dew in the meadow, or the wind across the moor...so shall grace and blessings be. This beautiful Irish blessing text is creatively set...

Now available for women's voices! Here is an exuberant celebration of the birth of Christ through layered African polyrhythms and call-and-response vocal phrases. The singers encourage the audience to...

The SATB setting of Non Nobis Domine has become one of Rosephanye Powell's most celebrated works. The driving energy and ostinato rhythms are classic elements from Rosephanye's pen. Her husband Willia...

This collection of original songs and arrangements of folk tunes provides a long-needed source of a cappella contest literature for the developing choir. Quality texts, careful attention to range, tes...

This a cappella original work is both accessible and appealing for developing choirs and ideal for contest and festival repertoire.

Set to the majestic This is the day that the Lord hath made psalm text, this highly flexible a cappella work is especially good for a multi-choir festival or concert. Short and accessible, the work op...

Jane and Cassandra Austen wrote these poems along with their mother. They were the result of a parlor game in which each line ended in a rhyme with the word 'rose'. Canadian composer Eleanor Daley sco...

This contemporary original is an accessible concert or contest work for young choirs and features a strong rhythmic drive with contrasting mixed meter sections.

This contemporary original is an accessible concert or contest work for young choirs and features a strong rhythmic drive with contrasting mixed meter sections.

Originally written for SATB, this hymn to the 'Queen of the Heavens' is a glorious work, replete with dramatic changes of mood and texture. The majestic chords of the opening bars quickly give way to...

Morning Light sets an optimistic text by the composer about home and finding your way. Inspired by American folksongs, the captivating melody and warm harmonies perfectly complement the uplifting them...

Cecilia McDowall's fresh and appealing style is amply displayed in this cycle, subtitled 'Three Shakespeare Songs'. In total, six Shakespeare texts are used, and McDowall's response encompasses a flee...

This a cappella setting of evocative words by E. Pauline Johnson is immediately appealing, with its playful, swinging syncopations and dancing scat accompaniment.

I will be with you sets a reflective text by the composer with a message of enduring solace. Lush harmonies, with predominantly homophonic passagework, coupled with flowing and cascading lines in ever...

Setting the modernized words of an Anglo-Saxon metrical charm, this thrilling piece is unusual, dramatic, and beguiling. Featuring a whispered list of potion ingredients for the intro and outro, it al...

Sarah Quartel brings a fresh take on a familiar fifteenth-century text in this carol for upper voices. The carol may be sung unaccompanied, though for added sparkle there is an optional part for handb...

Sing, my Child sets a joyful text celebrating the beauty found all around us in everyday life. Characterized by tight harmonies and a dynamic percussion line, the buoyant 7/8 metre of the opening driv...

Morning Light sets an optimistic text by the composer about home and finding your way. Inspired by American folksongs, the captivating melody and warm harmonies perfectly complement the uplifting them...

'TaReKiTa' is a refreshing concert piece that effortlessly blends the Indian and Western classical styles. The composer's scats are combined with a fast triple metre, vocal slides, and captivating mel...

Marie-Claire Saindon's Keeping Time for Joy abounds with the joy in contemporary writer Sarah Windle's text in this uplifting piece. Folk-like scalic melodies, infused with momentum through changing c...