Sheet Music by Women Composers for Women's Choir: Diverse Repertoire

Evoke the feeling of a glistening daybreak with this captivating original. It's a pleasure to sing, with a tuneful theme and some sparkling harmonic highlights that fan out from a single note. Perform...

Evoke the feeling of a glistening daybreak with this captivating original. It's a pleasure to sing, with a tuneful theme and some sparkling harmonic highlights that fan out from a single note. Perform...

Here's a setting of William Wordsworth's lyrical poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud." Composed specifically for SSA, colorful triadic harmonies and expressive musical moments are as plentiful as the g...

Perfect for developing or smaller SSA groups, this melodic metaphor offers many opportunities to build tone, encourage legato singing, and plant the seeds of musicality. Unison and two-part sonorities...

A setting of the poem by Robert Louis Stevenson (‘Late lies the wintry sun a-bed, A frosty, fiery sleepy-head’), Winter-Time was written by the choristers of Pembroke College Girls’ Choir, under the d...

A setting of Christina Rossetti’s poem Dream Land, the raw emotional quality of Dreamland reflects on the beautiful imagery and themes of fantasy and death of the poem. Written in the Autumn of 2020,...

Anyone who has sung in a choir knows the unavoidable and more or less boring exercises of the beginning of a rehearsal: vocal warm-up. Caroline Charriere has drawn a parody from this phase of the rehe...

Anyone who has sung in a choir knows the unavoidable and more or less boring exercises of the beginning of a rehearsal: vocal warm-up. Caroline Charriere has drawn a parody from this phase of the rehe...

Agnus Dei for women's choir (S.S.A.A.) was first performed in 1993 by the Choeur de Jade of Fribourg (Switzerland) in that city. It was during the period of war time in the former Yugoslavia, and I wa...

Agnus Dei for women's choir (S.S.A.A.) was first performed in 1993 by the Choeur de Jade of Fribourg (Switzerland) in that city. It was during the period of war time in the former Yugoslavia, and I wa...

Psaume 27 (Psalm 27) has been commissioned by Marc Bochud, director of the great girls choir of the Schola of Sion (Valais, Switzerland). Both pieces require a harp accompaniement. The first one, Exau...

Psaume 27 (Psalm 27) has been commissioned by Marc Bochud, director of the great girls choir of the Schola of Sion (Valais, Switzerland). Both pieces require a harp accompaniement. The first one, Exau...

The beginning is taken from one of my previous works (1994) written for women's choir with harp and incorporated into this Libera me, with the addition of two horns. The first performance was given in...

Sleep, Beauty Bright, based on William Blake's A Cradle Song, captures a mother's quiet awe and love as she gazes at her sleeping baby. Written for SSA choirs, the setting begins in unison and gradual...

Waterfall by Alexa Wilson is an SSA piece featuring wavelike movement and cascading vocal lines that beautifully emulate flowing water. Subtle harmonic shifts create a hint of mystery, giving treble c...

Read On, with music by Meredith Tompkins and lyrics by Brooke Manolis, is a beautifully crafted choral piece that invites singers into a world of curiosity and reflection. The intricate, engaging acco...

The text for The Sea is Never Still is based on Young Sea, a poem by the Pulitzer-prize winning American poet, Carl Sandburg (1878-1967). This poem describes the sea using vivid imagery and personific...

Tompkins' enchanting melody is reminiscent of an antique music box, paired with a waltz-like accompaniment in a lilting 3/4 pattern.  Varied in texture, with unison, SA, and SSA sections, this piece c...

The Haunting for SSA voices and piano is a spellbinding choral work that blends ethereal harmonies with hauntingly poetic text. Exploring themes of lingering spirits and echoes of the past, the piece...

In this setting of Abbie Farwell Brown's poetry, Tompkins transforms Brown's simple rhyme scheme into a vibrant interplay of homophonic and polyphonic textures. Centered around the second scale degree...

Inspired by George Wither’s A Christmas Carol, this joyful work by Earlene Rentz carries a lively lilt from start to finish. Light, dance-like phrases and accessible vocal writing make it a charming c...

With words by Wanetta Hill and music by Earlene Rentz, Dance! Laugh! Sing! bursts with playful charm and a light, lilting energy. Filled with cheerful repetitions, teasing wordplay, and whimsical "fa-...

Meredith Tompkins’s setting of Emily Dickinson’s I Took My Power in My Hand brings boldness and vulnerability to life through a driving piano part and compelling percussion. Dickinson’s words explore...