Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

Psalm 42 is the inspiration for this breathtaking work from Rosephanye Powell. Strong vocal lines coupled with an arresting piano accompaniment provide multiple opportunities for musical expression.

Written in the style of a spiritual, this original gospel tune will be a highlight this Christmas season. Featuring call-and-response voicing, stylized articulation, and dramatic dynamic shifts, there...

Written in the style of a spiritual, this original gospel tune will be a highlight this Christmas season. Featuring call-and-response voicing, stylized articulation, and dramatic dynamic shifts, there...

The words of Langston Hughes resound more today than ever for justice, truth and freedom. Rosephanye Powell has selected 3 poems by Mr. Hughes and set them to music: 1. I Dream a World, 2. To Sit and...

The words of Langston Hughes resound more today than ever for justice, truth and freedom. Rosephanye Powell has selected 3 poems by Mr. Hughes and set them to music: 1. I Dream a World, 2. To Sit and...

Undercurrents is a compelling collection for intermediate singers (medium-high voice) that takes inspiration from myth and legend in a set of richly atmospheric songs. Written by popular education com...

This work, commissioned by Jeremy Huw Williams in association with the Vaughan Williams Trust, sets three poems by Dylan Thomas. The first is melancholic in character; the second contrasts the fearles...

Commissioned by Roderick Williams, this characterful trilogy of songs sets poems by John Greening that present a vibrant, modern take on each of Schubert's song cycles.

In Victor Hugo's tremendous production it seems everyone can find their own path. I was myself fascinated in the sixties by the strange beauty of poems collected by poet André du Bouchet under the ext...

Memories is a set of four songs for voice and piano, inspired by people the composer knows or knew personally (including two of her own grandchildren). The songs include a Christmas lullaby, a heartfe...

École buissonnière (3'15'') pour soprano et piano (poème C. Cros). Par Aboulker aux éditions Leduc. Partition / Livre de chansons pour Piano et voix.

POUR MEZZO-SOPRANO ET PIANO (POÈME DE C. CROS), (La Délaissée) (3')

Au marché Saint-Paul, j'irai (3') pour baryton et piano (poème G. Nouveau). Par Aboulker aux éditions Leduc. Partition / Livre de chansons pour Piano et voix

A student of Gabriel Fauré and Louis Verne at the Paris Conservatoire, Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) owes her aura to an exceptional teaching career spanning nearly 75 years, during which she trained th...

Versions for high voice setting the text of Federico Garci­a Lorca. Commissioned especially for the 10th Concours International de Chant-Piano Nadia et Lili Boulanger.

Versions for low voice setting the text of Federico Garci­a Lorca. Commissioned especially for the 10th Concours International de Chant-Piano Nadia et Lili Boulanger.

Third volume of original hitherto unpublished songs by Nadia Boulanger for medium voice and piano (Extase, Aubade, Allons voir sur le lac d'argent, Écoutez la chanson bien douce, Ilda, Mon cœur, Mon â...

Rosemary Lane is an arrangement of the traditional folk song which tells the story of a domestic worker being seduced by a sailor. I took the liberty of freely re-harmonising the melody to bring out t...

Être heureux ou ne n'être pas is a collection of three melodies for tenor and piano composed by Isabelle Aboulker on texts by Pierre de Ronsard, Jean de La Fontaine and Octave Mirbeau. "To the profoun...

> Suitable for any voice (ambitus from F to C) > Traditional notation with no playing inside the piano > Moderately difficult > Enticing possibilities of interpretation This short, highly compact song...