Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

A beautiful extract from Garrop's major oratorio Terra Nostra, set to the poem by Walt Whitman. Terra Nostra considers, through texts and poems, the world as it was, humanity's rise and impact on the...

A beautiful extract from Garrop's major oratorio Terra Nostra, set to the poem by Walt Whitman. Terra Nostra considers, through texts and poems, the world as it was, humanity's rise and impact on the...

Stacy Garrop's DIRGE WITHOUT WORDS is a dramatic setting of Edna St. Vincent Millay's elegiac poem of the same name. The music gives voice to the mournful, yet defiant, character of the poetry, which...

It's New Year's Eve in Chicago, 1919. Just before the stroke of midnight, an anonymous woman leaps from the rooftop of a downtown hotel. The next morning, a young reporter named Abigail lands her firs...

This aria from Stacy Garrop's gripping noir-esque opera, The Transformation of Jane Doe, set in 1920s Chicago is lyrical, lilting, and sweet, a welcome addition to the aria repertoire for Mezzo-Sopran...

Garrop’s music is as effervescent as its subject in this setting of two poems by 17th-century English poet Robert Herrick. As satisfying to sing as it is to hear, performers will enjoy showcasing the...

MEDITATION FOR THE INNER STORM is a profound yet versatile vocalise against a drone. Performable with any droning sound source, and available in transpositions for high, medium, and low voices, Garrop...

MEDITATION FOR THE INNER STORM is a profound yet versatile vocalise against a drone. Performable with any droning sound source, and available in transpositions for high, medium, and low voices, Garrop...

MEDITATION FOR THE INNER STORM is a profound yet versatile vocalise against a drone. Performable with any droning sound source, and available in transpositions for high, medium, and low voices, Garrop...

Garrop’s music is as effervescent as its subject in this setting of two poems by 17th-century English poet Robert Herrick. As satisfying to sing as it is to hear, performers will enjoy showcasing the...

“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you….You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.” So begins Capta...

Created with librettist Carman Moore, this rebooted triptych of short, family friendly operas pays tribute to the African tradition of storytelling for all ages using a blend of African American style...

Commissioned by the American Opera Project and premiered in 2014, Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed that Line to Freedom” is a two act opera detailing the life and development of the famed Underground Ra...

For solo voice and piano. Text by Langston Hughes. In the words of editor John Michael Cooper, this work is an example of the deeply poetic creative nature of the Bonds-Hughes collaborations. By genre...

This duet for two solo voices with piano accompaniment features text by Langston Hughes, whose words emphasize the powerful rhythms of African drums and the sensual appeal of the dance. Bonds' work of...