Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

Amy Marcy Beach (1867-1944) composed Theme and Variations, Op. 80 in 1916. In A minor, the theme is followed by six variations. Sections: Theme: Lento di molto, sempre espressivo; Variations 1: L'iste...

Amy Marcy Beach (1867-1944) composed Theme and Variations, Op. 80 in 1916. In A minor, the theme is followed by six variations. Sections: Theme: Lento di molto, sempre espressivo; Variations 1: L'iste...

American composer Ruth Crawford Seeger is best known for her place in developing the modernist aesthetic, and she became a notable figure of a group of American composers called the "ultramoderns." Sh...

Here's one that should save lots of last-minute arrangements! Includes: Trumpet Tune (Purcell); Trumpet Voluntary (Clark); La Rejouissance; Prelude From Te Deum; Hornpipe From Water Music; Rondeau (Mo...

For Counter-Tenor, Flute, Shakuhachi (or Alto Flute), Cello, 2 Pianos, Harp and Percussion. Published in 1996. Commissioned by Roger Woodward for the composer's 50th Birthday Concert in the Seventh...

Anne Boyd 's The Quiet Place for Oboe (doubling antique cymbals), Clarinet (doubling rin), Viola and Harp. The Quiet Place was commissioned by the Warwick and Leamington Festival for performance by Ok...

Dedicated to the memory of Peter Platt, written for Riley Lee and Marshall Maguire. First performance: Vale of Glenmorgan Festival, September 2002. Score and part.

For Viola and Percussion.

5'; for oboe d'amore, Viola and Harp. First published 2003. Written for for Jinny Shaw and Okeanos. First performance: Jinny Shaw and Okeanos, March 2003. Score and parts.

7'; for tenor recorder and string quartet First published in 2004. Written for Tony Gilbert's 70th birthday celebration First performance: John Turner, The Barbirolli Room, Bridgewater Hall, Mancheste...

For oboe d'amour and harp. Published 2003 Written for Okeanos First performance: Okeanos, Cambridge Music Festival, August 2003. Score.

First published in 2005. First performance: Riley Lee (shakuhachi), Marshall McGuire (harp), Danks Street Depot, Sydney, 14th November 2005. Score and part. 8'.

15'; for five instruments and wind chimes Published 2005 for alto flute/piccolo (doubling gong and wind-chimes), bass clarinet in Bb (doubling wind chimes), piano, violin (doubling wind chimes), 'cell...

Published 2007. For flute, shakuhachi, bassoon and harp. Score.

9'; for clarinet in Bb and string quartet. Published 2007 Commissioned by Father Arthur E. Bridge for Ars Musica Australis for 2007 SSO Fellows Ensemble Score.

For Piano Trio. Score.

Anne Boyd's Seraphim Canticles for Violin, Cello and Piano.

Hilda Paredes' 'Son Dementes Cuerdas for Guitar and String Quartet'. Composed 2015, published 2016. Commissioned by Josef White quartet with funds provided by FUNCA in Mexico.

Hilda Paredes' 'Son Dementes Cuerdas for Guitar and String Quartet'. Composed 2015, published 2016. Commissioned by Josef White quartet with funds provided by FUNCA in Mexico.

Finnish composer Helvi Leiviskä (1902-1982) created a broad-based output of orchestral works, solo songs and chamber music. Her style could be described as moderate modernism, deriving influences from...

Lotta Wennäkoski tells about her 10 minute long work Päärme (Hem) for piano trio: "We often speak in music of crafting in a figurative sense, and craftsmanship is, for the composer particularly, a tra...

Jennah Vainio's Saxophone Quintet (2004) is scored for alto saxophone and string quartet. The composer tells: "I began to compose the Saxophone Quintet in the late summer months of 2002. The air in th...

The lyrical title of Lotta Wennäkoski's Mellan natt och regn (Swedish for "Between Night and Rain") comes from a poem by Tua Forsström (b. 1947), and the music has both rainy and nighttime moods. The...