Sheet Music by Women Composers at Boosey & Hawkes

Composer's note: Beware Of combines tape with alto flute, viola, and harp. The tape comprises a poem by, and read by, Colleen Clyne, with snippets of recordings from the instrumental parts, played by...

Composer's note:John Cage said:I like sounds just as they are.I love the activity of sound.I don't want a sound to pretend that it' a bucket - or that it's urm - president - or that it's in love with...

Composer's note:The Violin was inspired by my dear friends and wonderful violinists, Neil Dufallo and Amy Kauffman based in New York City, and another dear friend and violin maker, Bruno Guastalla, ba...

Das hier vorliegende Werk ist ein äußerst illustratives Beispiel für Programmmusik und bezieht sich auf das fünfte Kapitel aus Lewis Carrolls Alices Abenteuer im Wunderland. Beim Spielen der Bassklari...

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...

Composer's Notes:'Masquerade draws inspiration from the original mid-18th century promenade concerts held in London's pleasure gardens. As is true today, these concerts were a place where people from...

Rest These Hands is an arrangement of three movements form The Violin - a suite of seven pieces for multi-tracked violins. The first movement, also titled Rest These Hands, was originally composed for...

Composer's note: "When writing Prince of Clouds I was contemplating the presence of musical lineage - a family-tree of sorts that passes from generation to generation. This transfer of knowledge and i...

Period repertoire specially selected by the world famous teacher Sheila Nelson. Includes a wide spectrum of composers, from the well known to less familiar names and a lively variety of unaccompanied,...

Anmerkungen der Komponistin: In Double Bind? [Doppelbund ?] versuche ich einerseits, einen Einblick in das Innenleben von Klängen zu gewähren, und andererseits, eine imaginäre, manipulierte und veränd...

Streetwise is a superb collection of original compositions for alto saxophone from Karen Street. These characterful pieces are ideally suited for teaching and would be a rewarding addition to any deve...

Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751) was a prolific Baroque-era composer whose works are now rarely performed. However, he was much admired by J. S. Bach who used examples of Albinoni’s music in his teaching,...

Silent night This arrangement of the traditional carol by Franz Gruber and Joseph Muhr (translated into English by John Freeman Young) was written by Anna Lapwood and the Pembroke College Girls’ Choir...

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...

Commissioned in 2024 by Ensemble Altera for the choir’s critically acclaimed album ‘Feminine Voices at Christmas’, Kerensa Briggs’s setting of the Coventry Carol (‘Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child...

Making music together unlocks truly captivating soundscapes—especially within the warm, resonant sonorities of a cello ensemble! With "Threes And Fours", published by the renowned Boosey & Hawkes, you...

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.

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...

Boosey & Hawkes Archive Edition.

Twenty very elementary pieces for young players written and arranged by the world's favourite string teacher Sheila Nelson. Note reading is introduced one finger at a time, building up finger pattern...