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

Morning Light sets an optimistic text by the composer about home and finding your way. Inspired by American folksongs, the captivating melody and warm harmonies perfectly complement the uplifting them...

Cecilia McDowall's fresh and appealing style is amply displayed in this cycle, subtitled 'Three Shakespeare Songs'. In total, six Shakespeare texts are used, and McDowall's response encompasses a flee...

This a cappella setting of evocative words by E. Pauline Johnson is immediately appealing, with its playful, swinging syncopations and dancing scat accompaniment.

I will be with you sets a reflective text by the composer with a message of enduring solace. Lush harmonies, with predominantly homophonic passagework, coupled with flowing and cascading lines in ever...

Setting the modernized words of an Anglo-Saxon metrical charm, this thrilling piece is unusual, dramatic, and beguiling. Featuring a whispered list of potion ingredients for the intro and outro, it al...

Sarah Quartel brings a fresh take on a familiar fifteenth-century text in this carol for upper voices. The carol may be sung unaccompanied, though for added sparkle there is an optional part for handb...

Sing, my Child sets a joyful text celebrating the beauty found all around us in everyday life. Characterized by tight harmonies and a dynamic percussion line, the buoyant 7/8 metre of the opening driv...

Morning Light sets an optimistic text by the composer about home and finding your way. Inspired by American folksongs, the captivating melody and warm harmonies perfectly complement the uplifting them...

'TaReKiTa' is a refreshing concert piece that effortlessly blends the Indian and Western classical styles. The composer's scats are combined with a fast triple metre, vocal slides, and captivating mel...

Marie-Claire Saindon's Keeping Time for Joy abounds with the joy in contemporary writer Sarah Windle's text in this uplifting piece. Folk-like scalic melodies, infused with momentum through changing c...

Dedicated to 'sisters everywhere', this three-movement work combines a number of themes through the poetry of Sara Teasdale. The first movement, 'Sister of the Sky', focuses on the morning in early sp...

Composed in 2016 for the Maîtrise de Radio France, 'Ce n'était pas nous' for upper voices sets short poems by Antoine Thiollier which are at once playful and serious.

This a cappella feature for treble or male choirs is an outstanding choice for any time of year. Strong individual voice lines add up to an exciting, dynamic, and vibrant concert feature. ABA format w...

Here's a modern day madrigal for SSA choirs that may be performed a cappella or with the lilting 'in one' accompaniment. Program this joyful song for holiday concerts or any time you want to celebrate...

Here's a marvelous music history lesson! This clever a cappella choral features snippets of well-known madrigal texts and music, mixed in with an original contrapuntal theme.

Three-part women's and men's ensembles will excel with this majestic a cappella concert work. Joyful melodic motives are passed from voice to voice, and percussive handclaps bridge varied sections of...

Three-part women's and men's ensembles will excel with this majestic a cappella concert work. Joyful melodic motives are passed from voice to voice, and percussive handclaps bridge varied sections of...

An initial descending line opens up into lush four-part harmony in this contemporary a cappella concert work. Meditative and earnest, Sally Albrecht's prayerful text setting will inspire and uplift yo...

An initial descending line opens up into lush four-part harmony in this contemporary a cappella concert work. Meditative and earnest, Sally Albrecht's prayerful text setting will inspire and uplift yo...

A mixolydian melody becomes the foundation for this stately three-part canon with madrigal style counterpoint. Festive flute and hand drum parts add a Renaissance music touch to a piece with only 12 b...

A mixolydian melody becomes the foundation for this stately three-part canon with madrigal style counterpoint. Festive flute and hand drum parts add a Renaissance music touch to a piece with only 12 b...

A syncopated opening riff in the lower voices lays the groundwork for this quintessential a cappella spiritual. When the other voices join, we begin a journey of texture, harmonic development, and for...

Written by Mexico's first well-known female composer, María Grever, this vals Mexicano (Mexican waltz) makes a charming a cappella work for outstanding choirs. The textured setting offers well-conceiv...

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...