Sheet Music by Women Composers at Boosey & Hawkes

The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grades 6-8).

From the composer of 'Jesus Christ the apple tree', this gentle Christmas carol by Poston is a lullaby using the familiar text 'O my deir heart, young Jesus sweet' by James, John and Robert Wedderburn...

Three short musical pictures charmingly capture aspects of nature at a river: a spider web in the morning, playful children at a rope swing, and buzzing dragonflies.

Choirs will love this light-hearted text set to a flowing piano accompaniment.

This poem by Longfellow is mainly in unison, breaking into two parts at the end of stanzas and in the coda where the voices pick up the “snowflake” motif from the piano.

The Lamb is a setting of William Blake's poem from his “Songs of Innocence.” This piece works nicely on a concert program when paired with the composer's setting of Blake's corresponding p...

The familiar Latin text, ‘Tantum ergo Sacramentum’ (‘Therefore only the sacrament’), attributed to the 13th-century St Thomas Aquinus is here set by Anna Lapwood in simple strophic form for upper voic...

Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (b. 1602 - c. 1677) stands as one of the most prolific convent composers of Seventeenths Century Milan. While little is known of her training, Cozzolani's quality indicates...

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...

This anthem was commissioned by Anna Lapwood for the Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, during her tenure as Director of Music, to mark the 40th anniversary of women being admitted to study at the...

Considered to be one of the first modern American madrigals.

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky's piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872–1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky’s piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

Anmerkungen der Komponistin:Ich lernte das Klavierspiel in meiner Kindheit bei Gershon Konikow und Marcia Polis. Schon immer fühlte ich mich zur Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts hingezogen, insbesondere zu...

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 n...

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky's piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky's piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

The composer states that her Cello Concerto is antithetical to her other concertos. “While in the concertos for violin and piano, in the Double Concerto, and in my new sheng concerto I was seeking to...

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky’s piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

Written for the Pembroke College Chapel Choir in November 2022, Drop down, ye heavens is a setting of the refrain and final stanza of the Advent Prose, itself based on various portions of the Book of...

I am a pool is taken from A Memory of the Ocean (2023), a collection of pieces scored for choir, piano and cello. The text is a setting of The Sea-Wind by American poet, Sara Teasdale (1884–1933). Com...

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...