Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

This fun late elementary piece utilizes staccatos in both hands. RH plays root position chords and intervals of up to 7ths, with the ending passage consisting of a C major descending scale. Your stude...

This late elementary piece provides constant changes in legato to staccato articulations and gives clues along the way to answer the riddle-like question, "Who are my favorite pets?" There are some sh...

Teach your students damper pedal technique without them even knowing. Song of the Echo rings with a melody that echoes (literally!) through rising octaves. Lyrics reflect the echo's motion and the sou...

Song and dance! This piece first tells the story of the wiggling, jiggling, flipping, flopping jumping bean. Lyrics are joined by staccato notes and two-note slurs. Then we do the jumping bean dance....

A furiously fast piece in D minor starting with the melody in the LH while the RH plays 16th notes. The melody is then picked up by the RH before moving back to the opening section, which is actually...

This clever solo uses a single line melody to portray the sound of a locomotive moving along at a quick pace. There are also double notes played in both hands to depict the sounds of the horn. The tea...

This elementary piece has both legato and staccato articulations played in the Middle C position using quarter, half & whole notes. Canyon Run also offers a lovely teacher accompaniment that both stud...

Water trickling from the fountain is portrayed by the running eighth notes in the introduction, while the LH picks up the melody. This piece utilizes the C major scale ascending and descending, and ha...

A fast, exciting piece in 6/8 time with staff changes and hand crossovers, and the RH alternating between eighth notes and chords. This piece proclaims that the tarantella is indeed, alive! Another te...

This late intermediate piece commissioned by the Hattiesburg Music Teachers League, in honor of their 2005 composer festival, is written in the Romantic style. This piece is full of expressive passage...

This late intermediate piece commissioned by the Hattiesburg Music Teachers League, in honor of their 2005 composer festival, is written in the Romantic style. This piece is full of expressive passage...

A melodic sounding piece which evoke images of sailing on the coral sea. For the early intermediate student, Sailing the Coral Sea contains some not so traditional rhythmic figures for 6/8 time. The L...

Written for the Early Intermediate student, this lively and animated piece depicts the activities and antics of a lurking cat. Bouncy staccato articulations, changing accidentals, and a quick tempo th...

A cute story of a hippo and rhino enjoying a cup of Sunday tea accompanies this musical work. Written in C Major, with phrasing in two to four bar segments, this piece draws mainly on the text for its...

This fun elementary piece offers much more than the amusing lyrics and light hearted sound of the music. A Messy Day contains legato and staccato articulations within one phrase which helps in the dev...

This elementary piece tells the story of a pumpkin that's running away because it knows what fate lies ahead. Your students will be in suspense as they play the middle staccato section. Also features...

Students of any age will enjoy this lyrical prelude in 6/8 time. Written in C minor with both hands playing in the treble clef, it features the LH playing groups of three dotted quarter notes to eight...

This pre-reading piece utilizes the black keys starting on the D flat just above middle C for the LH, with the RH extending to the E flat an octave above. Written in an ABA form, the B section contain...

One can almost hear a Native American playing this haunting lament on a flute. This lyrical piece has a beautiful melody in the RH with the LH playing extended arpeggios with finger cross-overs.

In the key of A minor, this piece offers arpeggios, triplets, and uses a wide range of the keyboard that enables the student to produce a virtuosic sound.

Technical and pedagogical challenges are explored with this creative Intermediate level piece. Contains contrasting melodic and rhythmic sections, and opens with a majestic Maestoso beginning where bo...

This intermediate piano piece provides "virtuosic" sounding sonorities without being technically difficult to perform. The piece includes crossover ascending and descending arpeggios, sixteenth-note p...

This intermediate piano piece provides "virtuosic" sounding sonorities without being technically difficult to perform. The piece includes crossover ascending and descending arpeggios, sixteenth-note p...

Modulates from F major to G major with the LH playing several measures of arpeggiated 10th chords. This piece conjures up images of blue skies and floating white clouds-a perfect day!

Leaf's piece for intermediate students is named for one of the treasure houses of England, home to priceless works of art and stunning tapestries. Played in the key of A minor, this piece features lon...