Sheet Music by Women Composers at Boosey & Hawkes

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...

Echo is the third movement of Seascapes, which was commissioned by the BBC Singers, as companion music to the Four Sea Interludes by Benjamin Britten, arranged for the organ by Anna Lapwood. It was pr...

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...

Love Flows was commissioned by the Choir of Wells Cathedral and Alexander Hamilton to mark the occasion of the installation of the Reverend Canon Toby Wright as Dean of Wells in June 2024. The etherea...

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...

Setting a prose text penned by Helen Keller in her 'The Open Door,' composer and conductor Andrea Ramsey has created a sensitive yet powerful new work exploring 'All that we love deeply becomes part o...

This five movement work for SATB choir is based on five different Native American peoples. The sequence starts with 'Falling,' a lullaby, and ends with 'Rising,' an image of spirits gently swaying on...

The composer states:'Nightfall is an incantatory piece inspired by how light changes at the end of a day: the adding and subtracting of colours and shadow; the slowly building and diminishing dynamics...

This chant melody was brought to America from West Africa. It is meant to be sung as a meditation. Pedal notes should sound like a drone that supports the melody. It all leads to an experience for the...

Setting a prose text penned by Helen Keller in her 'The Open Door,' composer and conductor Andrea Ramsey has created a sensitive yet powerful new work exploring 'All that we love deeply becomes part o...

Easy Street is a superb collection of original compositions for flute from Karen Street. These characterful pieces are ideally suited for teaching and would be a rewarding addition to any developing f...

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...

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...

Discover the sonic richness and emotional depth of classical vocal music with this exquisite "Liederalbum" published by the renowned Boosey & Hawkes. Specially arranged for medium voice and piano acco...

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...

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...