Sheet Music by Women Composers at Boosey & Hawkes

Ailbhe McDonagh's Dance Suite for Solo Violin is a vibrant and imaginative new work that celebrates the full expressive range of the violin. Across six contrasting movements, McDonagh draws inspiratio...

This setting of the familiar opening lines of Henry Vaughan’s 'The World' was Lucy Walker's first commission as Composer-in-Residence with St Martin’s Voices, and was premiered by the ensemble in June...

Commissioned by St Martin’s Voices to mark Remembrance Day in 2024, There will come soft rains showcases the range of the choir’s musical colour-palette through the repetition of the opening motif in...

Commissioned by St Martin’s Voices to mark Remembrance Day in 2024, There will come soft rains showcases the range of the choir’s musical colour-palette through the repetition of the opening motif in...

Written for the BBC Singers in 2019, Stars above, earth below is a hopeful and reflective setting of the poem Leaves by Sara Teasdale (1884–1933). The piece begins with celestial, descending lines acr...

Written for the 2025 BBC Radio 3 Epiphany Carol Service, broadcast from Pembroke College, Cambridge, Arise, shine sets the first three verses of Isaiah 60: 'Arise, shine, for your light has come, and...

A setting of one of the seven O Antiphons, O Adonai, is built upon an ostinato figure on a single note which starts and ends the composition, initially using the words of the title. Acting as a drone...

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...

Inspired by Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, Kristina Arakelyan’s nine-movement A Christmas Offering is a festive celebration that ranges from the energetic Alleluia, the contemplative Out of...

Two narratives are interspersed in Christmas Lullaby. The first one is a mother singing a lullaby to her son, and the second one is the larger narrative of Jesus Christ’s life, as told through the tex...

There is no rose is the second movement of Kristina Arakelyan’s nine-movement work, A Christmas Offering, a festive celebration scored for SATB chorus with harp (or piano) taking inspiration from Benj...

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...

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...

Immerse yourself in the elegant world of jazz with "Sophisticated Sax", published by the renowned Boosey & Hawkes! This exquisite sheet music edition for alto saxophone and piano brings together capti...

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...

Discover the captivating world of ensemble performance: With "Threes" from the renowned publisher Boosey & Hawkes, an inspiring sheet music edition for violin trio awaits you. Three violins blend into...

Making music together right from the start: With "Fours", published by the renowned Boosey & Hawkes, ensemble playing becomes a truly motivating experience for young and aspiring violinists. This thou...

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 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...