Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

The optional opening section, for which there is a graphic score, is spoken to texts by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and other esteemed poets and authors. The four sung movements which follow are conven...

A new orchestration by Edward Harper has brought this colourful setting of Coleridge's epic poem back to life after the original orchestra score was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1940. A welcome addi...

Andrew Carter's setting matches in its powerful simplicity the text attributed to the French Quaker missionary, Stephen Grellet: 'I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore...

Setting the George Herbert poem 'Whitsunday', this lilting, gentle anthem is particularly useful for Whit Sunday services. Syncopations and duplets provide rhythmic interest, with memorable melodies,...

This tender movement from the Advent cantata O Come, Emmanuel is in memory of Bullard's teacher, Herbert Howells, with text translated from a traditional German carol Es ist ein Ros entsprugen. Suitab...

Eurydice is based on a work by the great Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay - a series of six large stones installed in a garden in Provence, set in a sea of lavender (representing water) and inscrib...

This suite from 1925 is one of Vaughan Williams' most enigmatic pieces. The chorus never articulates a single word, and instead serves as a section of the orchestra, creating an elegant vocal texture...

Higgins' setting of this popular folk song is simple and wistful, particularly well-suited for children's and youth choirs. With delicate quaver flourishes, the piano accompaniment flows gently alongs...

From English Traditional Carols.

The Island Itself is a setting of the poem Homage to Omey by Irish poet, Joan McBreen. The imagery of the sea conveyed in the text is reflected through lilting, syncopated rhythms. The melody is suppo...

This is an evocative setting of the Rudyard Kipling jungle poem 'Now Chil the kite brings home the night'.

This is an unusual setting of the text, in that after an ethereal opening, a contralto/mezzo-soprano soloist sings the Magnificat text while the female chorus interpolates with other texts in praise o...

This anthem is set to a text by the 10th-century Sufi mystic, Al-Junaid. For the most part, the mood is intimate and introspective; intertwining, whispered melodies, sometimes in free time, alternate...

This melody is most commonly heard in the United States, and includes Rutter's own arrangement of the sixth and final verse. Orchestral scores and parts are also available on hire. Offprinted from the...

The Nidaros Jazz Mass draws on a variety of jazz styles to present a fun and innovative setting of the Latin Missa brevis. With a stylistic piano part, and an optional bass and drum kit part, it will...

Ingegneri's setting of Estote fortes in bello alternates between declamatory homophonic sections and imitative contrapuntal writing, culminating in a dance-like and joyful finale of 'alleluia' stateme...

World premiere on June 5, 1994 in Hanover: Camerata Vocale Hanover, conducted by Hans-Dieter Reinecke

World premiere on October 28, 2004 in Bochum, 4th International Choral Festival Ruhr "A cappella": Stuttgarter Kammerchor, conducted by Frieder Bernius

Setting texts by Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, this is Zoë Martlew's first vocal work published by Schott. Beauty, space and control feature strongly in this work for 6 female voices that would be...

The text of Karakia is a traditional Maori prayer, a homage to the elements and rhythms of nature. Every pitch in the piece is derived from the name of the composer's mother, who was born in New Zeala...