Sheet Music by Women Composers for Vocal: Solo & Piano Works

This secular work for solo low voice and piano sensitively sets Langston Hughes's poem of the same name. A lilting melodic line and an effective piano part combine to create a piece that will appeal t...

An enticing rarity in the vocal literature, 1861 is a 5-minute work for unaccompanied voice - a miniature monodrama, sung a cappella. Okoye's music and dramatic pacing are in tune with Whitman's words...

For Alto, Piano. Composed 1972. Duration 4:00.

Nadia Boulanger composed this collection of seven songs in 1915, including "Sunsets", "Elegy", "Prayer", "Hymn", "Versailles", "Song" and "Winter Evening".

Powerfully poignant and equally tender, My Dearest Ruth is Garrop’s musical setting of the final love letter from Martin Ginsburg to his wife, the opera-loving Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsbur...

Powerfully poignant and equally tender, My Dearest Ruth is Garrop’s musical setting of the final love letter from Martin Ginsburg to his wife, the opera-loving Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsbur...

This atmospheric setting of familiar words from Shakespeare's As You Like It is sprightly and uplifting, with singers being asked by the composer to perform with 'a bit of frost and a knowing smile'....

In 1998 Barbara Heller created this exceedingly poetic song cycle. Filled with calm serenity 'Come una colomba' is steeped in the beauty of nature, colour and light. The poems by the father of modern...

An enticing rarity in the vocal literature, 1861 is a 5-minute work for unaccompanied voice - a miniature monodrama, sung a cappella. Okoye's music and dramatic pacing are in tune with Whitman's words...

For Soprano, Piano. Composed 1978. Duration 7:00.

Diese Lieder zeigen Viardots außergewöhnliche Fähigkeit, ihre spanischen Wurzeln auf andere kulturelle Kontexte zu übertragen. Sie sind sowohl von großem pädagogischen als auch künstlerischen Interess...

Kaija Saariaho's Leino Songs were premiered by Anu Komsi (soprano) and Pia Värri (piano) on 9 July 2007 in Kaarle's Church, Kokkola, Finland, as part of the Kokkola Opera Summer Festival. Leino Songs...

THE SOLITUDE OF STARS is a 5-minute work for high voice and piano. It depicts the composer"s awe at experiencing a nighttime view of the starry heavens, shining brightly over the vast expanse of the W...

A Spiritual