Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

Meredith Tompkins’s setting of Emily Dickinson’s I Took My Power in My Hand brings boldness and vulnerability to life through a driving piano part and compelling percussion. Dickinson’s words explore...

Written for intermediate treble choir, this work is inspired by Claude Monet's Woman with a Parasol.

This setting requires three treble soloists with power below the staff and confidence in the blues style. The choral backgrounds are deliberately sparse— imitating guitar, light organ, banjo— until a...

For chorus and orchestra, this work has been relatively unknown work. It uses colorful orchestra textures to support the choral writing.

For advanced treble chorus, the work is a beautiful metaphor for change and the possibility of new growth, even of resurrection. The text imagines the experience from a caterpillar’s point of view as...

Ausgangspunkt für 'Stabat Mater' war das gleichnamige Werk von Palestrina, dessen überwältigende und doch zurückgehaltene Traurigkeit die Komponistin tief berührt hat. Mit der Sopranstimme aus Palestr...

This beautiful lullaby for women's chorus uses text by Joyce Kilmer (1886 - 1918). Bonds sets this text as a tender lullaby, beginning quietly and moving to intricate melodies, lush harmonies, and tex...

The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh is the composer's inspiration for this choral, which is filled imagery from the painting. The text is created from a quote by Van Gogh, For my part, I know nothing...

This exquisite work invites singers to experience the beauty and sorrow of grief. Featuring a solo of unpolished emotion, along with gentle counterpoint and touching a cappella moments, the piece is a...

for SSAATTBB and organ This poignant anthem was originally composed to be sung at a funeral. It is a beautifully composed work, sufficiently sombre for such an occasion, but with a celebratory element...

for SSATB and organ This anthem commemorates the First World War. It sets a stark English text by Dr Joseph Spence which conveys the relentless hardship of life in the Trenches, alongside Latin words...

With a text by the composer, this work was originally inspired by members of the Radcliffe Ladies' Choir and their motto 'friendship through singing'. The lilting vocal lines are subtly underpinned by...

for SSATB and piano. This work sets three texts from 'Poem of the North', a collaboration celebrating 50 years of the Northern Poetry Library. The first movement is flowing and forward moving, while t...

An Althouse/Albrecht winner! It combines the sentiments of all the December holidays by celebrating the candle, a universal symbol of peace. 'One tradition unites us all: one glowing candle so small....

This charming setting of the famous Emily Dickinson poem reminds us that hope "never stops at all." A memorable melody is first sung in unison before layering into a buoyant two-part canon. From the b...

Singers will love the independent vocal lines in this bright setting of Emily Dickinson's hopeful poem. A lovely melody is introduced in unison and later assembles in canon. Radiant refrains are drive...

Written for the Pembroke College Chapel Choir in November 2022, Drop down, ye heavens is a setting of the refrain and final stanza of the Advent Prose, itself based on various portions of the Book of...

I am a pool is taken from A Memory of the Ocean (2023), a collection of pieces scored for choir, piano and cello. The text is a setting of The Sea-Wind by American poet, Sara Teasdale (1884–1933). Com...

In August 2024, Lucy Walker travelled to Lindisfarne with St Martin’s Voices for a festival of services and music to mark St Aidan’s Day. There the choir premiered Make me an Island, an introspective...

This work began as one movement of a larger work - a Mass. My intention was to compose the first sung prayer in the Order, that being a Kyrie, but the sudden death of a dear friend, a young, single mo...

This arrangement is of Vicki Tucker Courtney's solo of the same title in the solo book Become Yourself: Songs of Empowerment for the Developing Treble Voice. It is dedicated with hope that each person...

Featuring expressive vocal lines, warm harmonies, lush choral texture and a meaningful text, Safe Harbor is a modern benediction that conveys feelings of safety, belonging, and well-being. This piece...

Here, Now, and Always by Emily Crocker and John Jacobson is an upbeat, light, and energetic piece for three-part mixed choir with optional percussion. Centered on saying goodbye while celebrating an e...

Here, Now, and Always by Emily Crocker and John Jacobson is an upbeat, light, and energetic piece for two-part treble choir with optional percussion. Centered on saying goodbye while celebrating an en...