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

This setting by acclaimed African American writer Paul Laurence Dunbar is in the style of a lullaby, reflective and lyrical. With the flute obbligato evoking the singing bird, the text beckons the lis...

Use your community network to find a banjo player and add some Appalachian flavor to your concert with this fresh setting! A fun novelty feature with banjo and percussion, you can supplement it furthe...

This is a new song, both words and music, but it carries the sound of a favorite spiritual. Rosephanye's roots often influence her unique output, and this one is sure to be a popular Christmas selecti...

Leaping from leaf to leaf, shattering into gold, and scattering gems, light is at the center of our lives. It kisses our eyes, it sweetens our hearts, and it fills the world. This music explores the e...

Here's a delightful opener or closer for your holiday program, written in a spirited 6/8 style. Performance options include the lively piano accompaniment or the sparkling chamber orchestration. Which...

Discovery Level 2 Bright rhythms, buoyant layered melodies and an easy Latin text combine to create a superb concert showcase for younger and developing choirs. After a contrasting legato Alleluia sec...

Uses: Holy Week, Good Friday Scripture: Luke 2:8-15, 4:9-11, 22:41-43 This singular selection is a study in contrasts as it takes us from Bethlehem to Calvary. Through the angelic experience we sense...

Uses: General, Concert Scripture: Psalm 5:11: Psalm 8:3-5: Isaiah 55:12 Now available for women's voices! Buoyant with jubilant praise, this wonderful selection will dance its way into your hearts. A...

Uses: General, Praise Team Scripture: Psalm 63:4, Psalm 134:2, I Timothy 2:8 Now available for SAB and SSA choirs, this powerful song of worship and adoration contains a profoundly moving message for...

Emily Pauline Johnson's poem about a storm forming in the western sky is delightfully set in this concert work for SSA voices. Text painting at its best, the vocals sing with unison, two-part and full...

The nightingale has long been associated with melodic musical writing and romantic texts. The tenderness of the text is displayed in this choral setting that includes a delicate piano accompaniment an...

Donnelly and Strid have arranged the traditional Chinese folk song, Mo Li Hua, into a delightful display of trebled voiced beauty accompanied by a gentle piano with optional soprano recorder and vario...

This joyful thanksgiving anthem sets the familiar Psalm text, 'It is good to give thanks to the Lord, ' to a driving, syncopated refrain that recurs throughout the piece. A lively piano accompaniment...

The simple, childlike text of this thoughtful anthem expresses a genuine desire to live like Jesus - to be kind, faithful, and forgiving. A splendid choice for use during Lent, Holy Week, or any gener...

From the collection As you sing, 'Charm' is a secular concert work by Kerry Andrew which combines folk-influenced motifs with a distinct rhythmic style and some semi-improvised elements (composer's no...

Quartel has chosen a powerful combination of texts by Hildegard von Bingen and Mother Teresa for this emotive choral work. The main choir is accompanied by a small ensemble singing the word 'love' wit...

The text is that of a standard Latin Missa brevis, to which several relevant English poetic texts have been added. The first and last of these are taken from Bishop Thomas Ken's renowned morning and e...

This stunning setting of Revelation 22:12-13, 17, describes Christ's generous offering of grace to 'whoever is willing'. The piece begins with a lively opening but quickly shifts into a gentler mood,...

This Christmas gradual sets a text from the second chapter of the book of Matthew depicting the moment that the angel tells Joseph to take his family to Egypt. The original instrumentation is flute, t...

This artistic setting features a text adapted from Rossetti's reverent 'Before the Paling of the Stars.' A haunting melodic theme sets the tone for this minor-mode gem, which could be considered a con...

This tender song is an eloquent ode to friendship, comparing it to the lovely blooms of nature's most beautiful flowers. Your female singers will treasure every note and word. Pretty and poignant.

Here's an exuberant mixed-meter festival work that is bookended by a joyful fanfare and features a lovely legato section in the middle. Laura's highly regarded compositional skill is evident throughou...