Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

Cast: SSAATTBB Part 1 of the Tryptych, Three Songs With Words By Rainis

Cast: SSAATTBB Part 2 of the Tryptych, Three Songs With Words By Rainis

Cast: SSAATTBB Part 3 of the Tryptych, Three Songs With Words By Rainis

Thea Musgrave's O Caro M'e Il Sonno was first published in Musical Times supplement, December 1978. Arranged for SATB chorus the piece has a duration of approximately 2 minutes.

With words from the Accession Service, Queen Elizabeth I. For SATB and piano accompaniment with optional trumpet.

Musgrave's setting of The Lord's Prayer, for SATB and organ. Commissioned by the American Guild of Organists National Convention, San Francisco. Duration: 4 minutes.

Thea Musgrave's Collect for the Birth of John the Baptist for SATB.

For women's voices (SSA) and piano duet (four hands) or small orchestra (1. 1. 1. 1-1. 1. 0. 0-Strings). An unusually joyous setting; straightforward vocal lines portray Mary's humility, the accompani...

For SSAA chorus and percussion. A riveting setting for women's voices and percussion of a Mexican Indian chant evoking the Divine Spirit and praying for healing and spiritual strength. Full of Larsen'...

For SATB chorus and strings. A haunting depiction of the 'magic made by melody . . . Held in teh arms of rhythm and of sleep', from a poem by Elizabeth Bishop. Instrumental parts are available on hire...

For SATB, oboe, viola, and harp This is a setting of two twelfth-century poems where the choral parts flow in a chant-like way, interrupted by ecstatic bursts, sometimes of purely instrumental color....

For upper voices and contrabass

For SSA unaccompanied

For SATB and organ. This ravishing setting of a heartfelt and emotional poem by e. e. cummings captures a sense of the ineffable place of faith in existence that transcends mere worship, doctrine, eve...