Sheet Music by Women Composers for Mixed Choir: Extensive Selection

This haunting song by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson is a poetic reflection on the winter landscape and longing for love, with layered vocals and a rich harmonic underpinning. A starkly beautifu...

This a cappella setting of evocative words by E. Pauline Johnson is immediately appealing, with its playful, swinging syncopations and dancing scat accompaniment. Also available in a version for SSAA...

This high-energy original Christmas spiritual is not to be missed! A driving gospel chorus alternates with contrasting verses, then a quote from 'Angels We Have Heard on High' introduces a lively, and...

Media vita was commissioned in 2015 by the English vocal ensemble, Siglo de Oro, and their director Patrick Allies to celebrate 500 years since the birth of the English Renaissance composer, John Shep...

This enchanting setting brings a fresh take on a familiar fifteenth-century text. The dialogue between Mary and the infant Jesus is woven to a beguiling folk-like melody through each of the voice part...

The Coral Sea takes its title and structure from the prose poem of the same name that Patti Smith wrote as a memorial to the great photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who died in 1989.

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!

Commissioned by Ralph Woodward and the Fairhaven Singers in memory of Dora Kemp, one of the choir's sopranos, God is Light sets lines from Psalm 139, 1 Thessalonians, and 1 John. It moves from an unse...

This high-energy original Christmas spiritual is not to be missed! A driving gospel chorus alternates with contrasting verses, then a quote from 'Angels We Have Heard on High' introduces a lively, and...

"La Source" by Lili Boulanger is an atmospheric composition for mixed choir and piano (or orchestra) that was written in 1912. The work is based on a poem by Leconte de Lisle and describes the awakeni...

As I Crossed A Bridge of Dreams is a piece for SATB unaccompanied choir by Anne Boyd. It was commissioned by the Radcliffe Trust for the John Aldiss Singers for the 1975 Radcliffe Music Award and is b...

A lively setting of the well-known macaronic Christmas text, this piece uses frequently changing time signatures, syncopation, and independent movement in each part, resulting in a lightness of textur...

This jubilant carol sets an evocative fourteenth-century text celebrating the birth of Christ. With a lilting, medieval feel and changing metres, Of A Rose has been recorded by The Sixteen on their al...

Set as a fugue, this humorous piece has the students singing about every type of fast food known to man! It's hilarious to learn, perform and hear, and a joy to teach because of the vast musical learn...

As a firm avant-gardist, Ursula Mamlock primarily focused on instrumental music, mostly with typically reduced means and expression. Text-based pieces, vocal music, especially choral music are excepti...

A simple and short but very beautiful setting of the well-known Christina Rossetti text by Cornish composer Becky McGlade. An atmosphere of cold, winter stillness is conveyed in this piece with its ge...

Karin Rehnqvist calls this piece a peace project. A dream of peace in many languages that expresses a desire most people carry. For SATB a cappella. Text - anonymous Croatian boy

"Silent Steps" by Nana Forte is an atmospheric choral work by the contemporary Slovenian composer, who is known for her innovative and sonically dense vocal music. The piece is characterized by a subt...

This rousing triple meter choral is infused with traditional gospel harmonies, rhythms, and articulations, and the uplifting text conveys an urgent message for peace. The classic 'Dona Nobis Pacem' ca...

Uses: General, Memorial Scripture: Psalm 23 This often-set Psalm has found new purpose in this shining setting. Each phrase of the celebrated scripture receives a special moment with the words being c...

This haunting song by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson is a poetic reflection on the winter landscape and longing for love, with layered vocals and a rich harmonic underpinning. A starkly beautifu...

Longfellow's text is set with additional words and music by Ruth Morris Gray and the piano accompaniment is based on Pachelbel's Canon in D. Together, it creates a sweet choral singing ding dong gentl...