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

This creative concert work uses sewing analogies to build a powerful metaphor of self-acceptance. Tailor-made for SSA singers, conversational rhythms and expressive vocal lines form a stunning tapestr...

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...

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky’s piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

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,...

Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of vocal music with the '3 Madrigals', published by the prestigious Boosey & Hawkes. This delightful work for two-part women's choir (Soprano and Alto) with pi...

Walking in Love depicts the goodness and power of love. With catchy rhythms and interesting chordal harmonies, Bailey's original piece emphasizes Where there is love, there is light. A great teaching...

Ausgangspunkt für 'Stabat Mater' war das gleichnamige Werk von Palestrina, dessen überwältigende und doch zurückgehaltene Traurigkeit die Komponistin tief berührt hat. Mit der Sopranstimme aus Palestr...

Traditionell: Marche des lesbiennes (Marsch der Lesben) Ina Deter: Neue Bilder braucht die Frau Rudi Goguel: Hymne du MLF ou Hymne des femmes (Hymne des MLF oder Hymne der Frauen) Albena Petrovic-Vrat...

Be enchanted by the touching sounds of "Peace." This expressive work for four-part women's choir (SSAA) and organ unfolds a deep, meditative atmosphere that captivates singers and audiences alike. The...

This beautiful lullaby for women's chorus uses text by Joyce Kilmer (1886 - 1918). Bonds sets this text as a tender lullaby, beginning quietly and moving to intricate melodies, lush harmonies, and tex...

This gentle yet joyful Christmas Carol sets a text that evokes imagery of Bethlehem at the time of Christ's birth: a land with olive trees and sheep on the hillside. The delicate and supportive piano...

Crisp eighth-note figures and steady sleigh bells create the feeling of a jaunty sleigh ride while contrasting legato sections evoke the chill of blowing snow. Sopranos exclaim the title over and over...

Silent night This arrangement of the traditional carol by Franz Gruber and Joseph Muhr (translated into English by John Freeman Young) was written by Anna Lapwood and the Pembroke College Girls’ Choir...

Commissioned in 2024 by Ensemble Altera for the choir’s critically acclaimed album ‘Feminine Voices at Christmas’, Kerensa Briggs’s setting of the Coventry Carol (‘Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child...

Farnell captures the exquisite beauty, wonder, and starkness of the falling snow through both picture painting and melodic treatment in this poignant and accessible piece for treble choirs. The option...

Here's the piece to let your soloist shine! This inspirational, expressive, and stirring pop ballad features solo singing on each of the verses and easy to learn parts for the chorus. The piece is an...

With text adapted from Song of Solomon, this soaring piece for women's choir is excellent for contest, concert or festival. New writer Laura Farnell carefully sets the text with word painting, express...

Ausgestattet mit dem Text eines lateinischen Hymnus aus dem 4. Jahrhundert, erkundet dieses feurige Stück den Kontrast zwischen Himmel und Hölle in einem neoklassizistischen Stil. Der Anlass für diese...

In ihrem Stück, das Doreen Rao und ihrem CME Institute (Choral Music Experience) gewidmet ist, erzählt Komponistin Andrea Ramsey mit musikalischen Mitteln von der Reise, die viele von uns im Leben sch...

Margaret Walker's text leaps off the musical page as words crying to be sung. 'My grandmothers were strong. They followed plows and bent to toil.' This was not frailty - this was determined womanhood....

Snow Angel is an evocative five-movement work exploring themes of love, rebirth, and beauty. It may be performed with narration and features a haunting cello line. The pictorial musical language allow...

In this fast and energetic piece, Quartel sets her own text celebrating the joy of singing. The melody weaves in and out of the texture, supported by dynamic vocal accompaniment and rhythmically drive...

Taken from a suite of three pieces by Cecilia McDowall called Lonely Hearts, composed in 2005, this is a light and energetic setting of a whimsical text by Christie Dickason about a lonely hearts colu...