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

Celebrating the resurrection of Jesus, this joyous Easter anthem features optional parts for glockenspiel or metallophone that add a triumphant sparkle to the regal melody. Budding two part choirs wil...

John Parker's original text paralleling love lost to the withering and fading of roses is expressively set by Vicki Tucker Courtney for SSA voices. Aching and longing musical lines and harmonies refle...

Based on the poem Over the Land Is April by Robert Louis Stephenson, Donnelly and Strid have created an expressive work for SSA voices suitable for concert and contest. Optional flute is included in t...

Voice on the Wind sets an inspiring text, written by the composer, about the empowerment of singing. With a catchy melody, imitative scat singing, and a driving hand drum accompaniment, this piece has...

Setting a moving text inspired by Chief Seattle, Quartel appeals for better stewardship of the planet through gentle flowing lines and expansive textures. The melodies are accessible throughout and we...

Here in my Heart is an uplifting setting of an original text by the composer that explores the power of the natural world to fill the heart with song. The evocative melody uses syncopated rhythms to c...

This bewitching setting tells the story of a young girl walking in an enchanted forest, mesmerized by dreamy, ancient songs sung by a chorus of birds.

This is a gentle setting of an optimistic text about joy and hope and the expression of these through song. Sister Song features delicate piano ostinatos, persuasive melodies, close harmonies, and con...

This is a beautiful piece setting an evocative text by Anne Brontë that explores natural imagery on a blustery day and the feelings they inspire. Supported by the piano acccompaniment, Quartel's soari...

This set of three captivating pieces is designed to introduce choirs to the Hindi language. Each piece teaches linguistic concepts of Hindi and musical concepts of Hindustani music, while reminding us...

This arrangement of Huron Carol, renamed Iesous ahatonnia' to reflect its origins, sets new texts by Wendat poet Andrée Levesque Sioui and invites us to learn from the past while working to shape a be...

This is a joyful and expressive setting of the composer's own text, inspired by geographical features of Newfoundland. Wong employs gentle phrases, nimble rhythmical patterns, and a soaring solo desca...

Composed in 1941, this is the first publication of this work.

A new orchestration by Edward Harper has brought this colourful setting of Coleridge's epic poem back to life after the original orchestra score was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1940. A welcome addi...

Eurydice is based on a work by the great Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay - a series of six large stones installed in a garden in Provence, set in a sea of lavender (representing water) and inscrib...

From English Traditional Carols.

This is an evocative setting of the Rudyard Kipling jungle poem 'Now Chil the kite brings home the night'.

This is an unusual setting of the text, in that after an ethereal opening, a contralto/mezzo-soprano soloist sings the Magnificat text while the female chorus interpolates with other texts in praise o...

Setting texts by Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, this is Zoë Martlew's first vocal work published by Schott. Beauty, space and control feature strongly in this work for 6 female voices that would be...