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

Vertonung von pastoralen Versen des russischen Dichters Jakow Petrowitsch Polonski, die die Komponisten in den letzten beiden Dekaden ihres Lebens nach ihrem Rückzug aus dem musikalischen Leben im Zug...

This short but beautifully crafted motet for upper voices was composed for the combined girls choirs of Godolphin & Latymer School whilst Kerensa Briggs was Composer in Residence there in 2019. The we...

J'ai écrit cette berceuse sur un poème d’Isabelle Daccord. C’était en 2008, la petite Mila, nièce d’Isabelle, venait de naître et sa tante souhaitait lui écrire quelque chose. Le 'Ch...

A beautiful new tune to the Catholic prayer to Virgin Mary. The prayer begins with the angel Gabriel's greeting to Maria 'Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus Tecum!' which means' Hill you, Mary, full of...

These were commissioned by Pamela Cook and Cantamus and were first performed in 1972. They are for unnacompanied SSA voices.

A beautiful message in a compelling setting for treble choirs.

This short dreamy choral work is a tapestry of subtle, ever shifting beauty. This piece is inspired by a passage from Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Essay on the Origin of Languages. Katherine Balch further...

The words for this piece were taken from two French poems: LHeure du Berger, by Paul Verlaine, and Le Lac by the ultra-Romantic Alphonse de Lamartine. It was important for me to think of the age gap b...

With a text that includes both Swahili and English, this energetic a cappella SSA piece celebrates our Mother Earth. The shaker and hand drum make a perfect rhythmic accompaniment. The descant part fo...

With a text that includes both Swahili and English, this energetic a cappella SSA piece celebrates our Mother Earth. The shaker and hand drum make a perfect rhythmic accompaniment. The descant part fo...

Zur Geschichte der Frauenbewegung gehören zahlreiche Lieder, die Forderungen nach Gleichberechtigung, angemessenen Arbeitsbedingungen, politischer und gesellschaftlicher Teilhabe, Selbstbestimmung und...

Fünf kurze, etwas melancholische Stücke auf einen Text über die irische Küste von Gillian Turner, die Sehnsucht und vergangene Erinnerungen und hervorrufen. Sie sind teils an den imitatorischen Stil d...

“This feathered species which I love – how numerous they are!” This is the introduction to Birdsongs, a cycle for polyglot singers to be sung by an unaccompanied choir a cappella or soloists (SSA). Sp...

For upper voices (SSA), unaccompanied. An exuberant song of rejoicing at the dawn, with a catchy, toe-tapping refrain of 'Cry jubilee'.

For SSSAAA, unaccompanie. dA setting of the familiar psalm text with interpolations from nature writings by the American naturalist John Muir and by Patricia Hennings.

For SSAA unaccompanied