Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

Chen Yi's THREE BAGATELLES FROM CHINA WEST are a trio of Chinese folk songs. Originally written for flute and piano, many soloists and ensembles have requested transcriptions of these pieces for their...

A commission from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, for any combination of instruments of her choosing, quickly sparked Shulamit Ran to create a trio for Flute, Viola, and Harp. She writes of this...

Inspired by the dramatic interplay of light and shadow in Rembrandt's paintings, Stacy Garrop's CHIAROSCURO translates this effect into sound in a seven-minute work for mixed sextet. The music dances...

Inspired by an optical phenomenon only visible from high altitude mountains at dawn and dusk, this double concerto for alto saxophone and tuba by Stacy Garrop—whose music is esteemed and loved among w...

Chen Yi's Fire for 12 players, commissioned by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition, was premiered in 2019 by the Grossman Ensemble under the baton of James Baker at the University of Chica...

Commissioned by Drumpetello (Carrie Pierce; Matthew McClung; and Mary Thornton) and Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi; Mesoamerican Suite is comprised of five brief and varied impressions of tales...

Ellen Zwilich has enjoyed a lifelong love of chamber music for mid-size ensembles and atypical scorings. Her fascination for Schubert's 'Trout' Quintet has inspired several works that include contraba...

THE SOLITUDE OF STARS is a 5-minute work for Violin, Cello, and Piano. It depicts the composer's awe at experiencing a nighttime view of the starry heavens, shining brightly over the vast expanse of t...

SHADOWS was composed in 2011 as a commission for pianist Jeffrey Biegel and an international consortium of orchestras, anchored by the Louisiana Philharmonic. Zwilich wrote: 'As people have migrated f...

Welcome to The Sweet Shop – a collection of pieces designed to fire your imagination and sense of fun! Inside the sweet shop, you will find fizzy sherbet, chewy toffees and popping candy amongst other...

Hello and welcome to The Fairy Tale Harp. I have always thought of the harp as an imaginative and magical instrument, so it seemed likes good idea to try and use it to bring some of my favourite fairy...

Sophia Giustani Dussek's opus 2 consists of two books of three sonatas each for the harp. The Sonata in c-minor appears in the first book, published by Pleyel in Paris in 1796. In this edition, the co...

Six easy pieces for harp and one harp duet for beginners in their first year of learning the harp. Melodious compositions, notated in treble clef, with fingerings, chord symbols, and annotations in Ge...

For Solo Harp

Fernande Decruck composed Pavane in 1933 for the saxophone quartet of the Republican Guard, then made a different version for the clarinet quartet. In 1949 she wrote two more versions, one for reed tr...