Sheet Music by Women Composers for Children's Choir: Educational Works

A gentle descant floats above the pentatonic melody during the final verse of this poignant song for developing choirs. Opens with a quiet unison and grows into a solid echo-song format. The peaceful...

A perfect way to say goodbye, this gentle piece includes words from more than one Irish blessing and boasts a slight Celtic groove. Appropriate for and appealing to choirs of all ages.

This artful wintertime choral shimmers with images of the most magical time of year. Lovely and lyrical melodies, poetic text, and glistening choral writing. Exquisite.

A triumphant fanfare motive is echoed across the choir before breaking into a joyous refrain, punctuated with rhythmic handclaps. Suitable for concert, festival, and church use, this celebratory chora...

An optional flute obbligato floats dreamily above throughout this lovely treble setting of the famous poem by Thomas Hood. Both melody and harmony are written in ideal vocal ranges, and subtle changes...

This is the time when Christmas comes and all the world is filled with cheer. It's a bright holiday fanfare, designed especially for developing choirs. Not exclusively a partner song, but you'll love...

Ruth Morris Gray presents an exquisite minor-key setting that elevates choral musicianship. A rich melody ebbs and flows over the colorful harmonic palette, while a captivating piano theme winds its w...

Singers will love the independent vocal lines in this bright setting of Emily Dickinson's hopeful poem. A lovely melody is introduced in unison and later assembles in canon. Radiant refrains are drive...

Singers will love the independent vocal lines in this bright setting of Emily Dickinson's hopeful poem. A lovely melody is introduced in unison and later assembles in canon. Radiant refrains are drive...

Created in 2000, this work for children's choir and large orchestra was transformed by the Australian composer into the present version with piano accompaniment in 2008. Even in the reduced and conden...

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...

TERRA NOSTRA is an oratorio focusing on the relationship between our planet and mankind, how this relationship has shifted over time, and how we can re-establish a harmonious balance. Scored for Child...

TERRA NOSTRA is an oratorio focusing on the relationship between our planet and mankind, how this relationship has shifted over time, and how we can re-establish a harmonious balance. Appearing near t...

Audrey's setting of Emily Bronte's beautifully poignant text is stunning. The music is melodically accessible, and the keyboard part, wonderfully supportive. This work will be performed many times for...

Sung by pop songstress Pink and her daughter Willow, this is a bright and sunny song with pure harmonies and a sense of wonder in the small beauties of the world!

The burgeoning Solfege series for young choirs gets a new inductee in Solfege Mambo, drawing heavily upon Latin American traditions of syncopation, staccato movement and rhythmic expression. With a te...

Multiculturalism abounds in this rhythmic African choral by Sally K. Albrecht and Jay Althouse. Five easy Swahili phrases are followed by their English equivalents in this pulsating piece which teache...

When Disney's Frozen came out 2013, it immediately became a critical and popular sensation, turning millions of playtimes into stories about Elsa, Anna and the rest. The message received was positive...

From the 2019 film Breakthrough, which tells the incredible true story of a Missouri teen whose heart stopped beating for 45 minutes after he fell through a layer of ice atop a frozen lake, comes this...