Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

When Chen Yi writes for violin, she brings not only the inventive sparkle characteristic of all her music, but also the personal and visceral feel of composing idiomatically for her own instrument. En...

With this double concerto, the Reger pupil Johanna Senfter (1879-1961) is entirely in the tradition of Antonio Vivaldi and J.S. Bach, although she combines the concerto form with the classical four-mo...

The composer and violinist Johanna Senfter from Oppenheim wrote concert works, such as chamber music works for violin, her whole life. Being a pupil of Reger, who held her in high esteem, she composed...

Das Spielen im Duo macht sowohl professionellen Musikern als auch Laien viel Freude und gibt kreative Impulse für das Musizieren. Die Stücke sind Begegnungen zwischen zwei Menschen nachempfunden. Jede...

This second volume of Helen Butterworth's Gems series continues in the vein of the original collection, that of entrancing, original pieces designed for young violinists (with piano or Online Audio ac...

'Superduets for cello' provides a wonderful new repertoire of original and entertaining duets for beginner cellists. It can be started as soon as pupils have mastered basic playing technique. Encourag...

'Superduets for cello book 2' provides a wonderful new repertoire of original and entertaining duets for beginner cellists. It is designed to build on techniques that have been learned in 'Supeduets 1...

Die Reihe JUNIOR PERCUSSION ist aus der Praxis für die Praxis entstanden. Die Stücke sind Schülern an einer Musikschule 'auf den Leib' geschrieben worden. Die Instrumentenauswahl ist an Musikschulen h...

This work was written in 1995 for and dedicated to Thomas Keemss and the ensemble TRI PERCUSSION. 29 categories of instruments and 71 individual instruments are being used. The piece consists of three...

The evocative title La Forêt enchantée [The enchanted forest] came to me purely by chance and the subtitles followed spontaneously: 1. par un matin [One morning] , 2. dans le lointain, el...

Elena Kats-Chernin composed this piece in its original form for solo piano in 1996 when staying on a scholarship at the former home of the Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912 - 1990), as a...

Russian Rag is one of Elena Kats-Chernins most famous pieces. It was arranged by her for various instrumentations and was used, among other things, as film music in the clay animation film Mary & Max....

Tangos, like ragtimes and waltzes, are an integral part of Elena Kats-Chernin's music, always in a new and varied form. In it, the composer allusively combines her present time with the classical trad...

Tangos gehören, wie Ragtimes oder Walzer, in immer neu variierter Form zum festen Bestandteil von Elena Kats-Chernins Musik. Anspielungsreich verbindet die Komponistin darin ihre Gegenwart mit der kla...

Easy music to encourage ensemble playing from the earliest stages from the world-famous string teacher Sheila Nelson. Designed to give beginners their first taste of group playing.

The composer and violinist Johanna Senfter (1879 1961) from Oppenheim concerned herself with piano-accompanied chamber music for strings all her life. Max Reger valued her 'extraordinary compositional...

For Violin, Cello, and Piano - Score and Parts

Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University, the two-movement Tibetan Tunes was written for the New Pacific Trio and was premiered at the Conservatory of Mus...