Sheet Music by Women Composers at Boosey & Hawkes

The Symphony in B minor of 1905 is Kashperova’s grandest composition, revisited by her in 1909 in order to transform the orchestral original into a large-scale concert work for solo piano. She may wel...

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...

A further set of pieces in the third position which is used throughout without change of finger pattern. A preliminary exercise for the appropriate key establishes the required shift and the range of...

Piece by Piece 1 & 2 - Graded pieces in attractive contrasting styles, following on from Right from the Start. Includes traditional melodies, tunes from the classical repertoire and original, jazzier...

The Boosey & Hawkes Easy String Music series by Katherine & Hugh Colledge contains four volumes of repertoire for new and developing string players. Popular with teachers and students alike, each titl...

Margaret Walker's text leaps off the musical page as words crying to be sung. 'My grandmothers were strong. They followed plows and bent to toil.' This was not frailty - this was determined womanhood....

This short but beautifully crafted motet for upper voices was composed for the combined girls choirs of Godolphin & Latymer School whilst Kerensa Briggs was Composer in Residence there in 2019. The we...

O nata lux started life as a piece written for a men's voices Compline service at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where Lapwood (as Director of Music) was consciously trying to include music by women in...

Bird Raptures, a set of three pieces which draw inspiration stylistically from twentieth-century partsong, was composed for St Martin’s Voices in spring 2025, especially for Lucy Walker’s debut album...

Setting of the familiar traditional Irish text, ‘May the road rise up to meet you’, An Irish Blessing was written in 2024 as a parting gift for a Pembroke College, Cambridge organ scholar, Andreana Ch...

The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 5)

Alternating chant style with up-tempo, rhythmic sections, this piece, written for the Allegro Community Children's Choirs of the greater Kansas City area, is an ideal work for combining choruses of va...

Quartets in easy keys for beginners.

Easy pieces for young string trios written and arranged by the world's favourite string teacher, Sheila Nelson. Suitable for players who have been learning a year or two, the parts are mainly in first...

Simple string quartet pieces arranged by Sheila Nelson to encourage ensemble playing from the earliest stages. Includes an attractive mixture of traditional melodies, classical material and original c...

Simple string quartet pieces arranged by Sheila Nelson to encourage ensemble playing from the earliest stages. Includes an attractive mixture of traditional melodies, classical material and original c...

Eight simple pieces for elementary string quartets or string orchestras of up to eightparts. A piano part can be used to fill in for any missing players. Designed to give beginners their first taste o...

Simple pieces for elementary string quartets or string orchestras of up to eight-parts. A piano part can be used to fill in for any missing players. Designed to give beginners their first taste of gro...

The Boosey & Hawkes Easy String Music series by Katherine & Hugh Colledge contains four volumes of repertoire for new and developing string players. Popular with teachers and students alike, each titl...

The Easy String Music series by Katherine & Hugh Colledge comprises four volumes of easy repertoire for beginners and developing string players. Popular with teachers and students alike, each volume i...

The Boosey & Hawkes Easy String Music series by Katherine & Hugh Colledge contains four volumes of repertoire for new and developing string players. Popular with teachers and students alike, each titl...

The Boosey & Hawkes Easy String Music series by Katherine & Hugh Colledge contains four volumes of repertoire for new and developing string players. Popular with teachers and students alike, each titl...

Simply 4 Strings – Ensemble music for elementary string players from Katherine and Hugh Colledge, composers of Stepping Stones, Waggon Wheels, Fast Forward and Shooting Stars. A complete suite of pie...