In response to the desire to program music written by women, we’ve created a comprehensive list of the latest and most loved educational repertoire by women composers, organized by ensemble, grade, and voicing.

These composers blaze trails and break barriers with incredible music, and now you can browse our newest and bestselling works by women to help your students SHINE in band, string orchestra, and choir at every age and level!

Learn more about some of our most exciting voices in our catalog through the composer spotlights below.

Composer Spotlight: Dr. Lauren Bernofsky

...As a woman composer, I recognize the “tradition” of women artists being undervalued, and I am passionately committed to helping to celebrate them and bring their art to the rest of the world."
—Dr. Lauren Bernofsky on her commission for the Maud Powell Project to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted women equal voting rights

Carl Fischer Composer Dr. Lauren Bernofsky
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Carl Fischer Composer Dr. Chen Yi
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Composer Spotlight: Dr. Chen Yi

Chen Yi has blazed a trail for female composers. She was the first woman to receive a master’s degree in composition [from Beijing Central Conservatory of Music] in China when, in 1986, she gave a concert of her orchestral works with the Central Philharmonic of China. She was also the first woman to give a multimedia orchestral concert in the US when [her] ‘Chinese Myths Cantata’ with an orchestra, choir, traditional Chinese musicians, dancers and image projection [was premiered in 1996].
—KT Wong Foundation, London

Works by Women in Band

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Works by Women in String Orchestra

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Works by Women in Choral Music

Treble Chorus

Treble Chorus | Unison & Two-Part Chorus | Tenor-Bass Chorus | 3-Part Mixed Chorus | Mixed Chorus

A Traveler's Heart

Print (BL1225): $2.25

Christi Jones
Treble Chorus
Beyond Light

Print (BL1194): $2.25

Christi Jones
Treble Chorus
Bella Ciao

Print (BL1196): $2.25

Traditional Italian, Christi Jones (arr.)
Treble Chorus
Awakening

Print (BL1170): $2.50

Christi Jones
Treble Chorus
In Te Speravi

Print (BL1166): $2.25

Christi Jones
Treble Chorus
Who I Want to Be

Print (BL1217): $2.50

Coty Raven Morris, Saleel Menon (arr.)
Treble Chorus
All I Have To Bring Today

Cynthia Gray
Treble Chorus
Everybody Needs a Friend

Print (BL1218): $2.50

Karen Crane
Treble Chorus
Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming

Print (BL1219): $2.25

Anonymous, Laura Farnell (arr.)
Treble Chorus
Hodie Christus Natus Est

Print (BL1220): $2.50

Laura Farnell
Treble Chorus
Salaam Aleikum

Print (BL1200): $2.75

African Folksong, Laura Farnell (arr.)
Treble Chorus
Sing We Noel!

Print (BL1221): $2.50

French Carol, Vicki Tucker Courtney (arr.)
Treble Chorus
A Joyous Carol of the Bells

Print (BL1163): $2.25

Ukrainian Bell Carol, Vicki Tucker Courtney (arr.)
Treble Chorus
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

Print (BL1173): $2.50

Vicki Tucker Courtney
Treble Chorus

Unison & Two-Part Chorus

Treble Chorus | Unison & Two-Part Chorus | Tenor-Bass Chorus | 3-Part Mixed Chorus | Mixed Chorus

All Night Today

Print (BL1197): $2.25

Christi Jones
Treble Chorus
London Bridge is Broken Down

Print (BL1161): $2.25

Old English Tune, Meredith Tompkins (arr.)
Treble Chorus
O Sunrise

Print (BL1203): $2.50

Ruth Elaine Schram, Aren Williams
Treble Chorus
Ants Marching

Print (BL1167): $2.25

Ruth Elaine Schram, Aren Newell Williams
Treble Chorus
The Star Riddle

Print (BL1191): $2.25

Sherry Blevins
Treble Chorus
Winter Waltz

Print (BL1199): $2.50

Vicki Tucker Courtney, John Parker
Treble Chorus
Wishing Star

Print (BL1231): $2.25

Laura Farnell, Beth Bolton
Unison and Two-Part Chorus
Round and Round: A Collection of Rounds for Emerging Choirs

Print (BL1160): $3.00

Caldara, Spiritual, , Vicki Tucker Courtney (arr.), et al.
Unison and Two-Part Chorus
A Dragon Song

Performance Score (BL1130): $2.25

Vicki Tucker Courtney
Tenor-Bass Chorus

Tenor-Bass Chorus

Treble Chorus | Unison & Two-Part Chorus | Tenor-Bass Chorus | 3-Part Mixed Chorus | Mixed Chorus

In Te Speravi

Print (BL1207): $2.25

Christi Jones
Tenor-Bass Chorus
How Sweet the Sound

Print (BL1205): $2.50

Christi Jones
Tenor-Bass Chorus
Three a cappella Spanish Songs for Tenor-Bass Choir

Print (BL1179): $2.25

Spanish Folk, Christi Jones (arr.)
Tenor-Bass Chorus
Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming

Print (BL1209): $2.25

Anonymous, Laura Farnell (arr.)
Tenor-Bass Chorus
With You

Print (BL1206): $2.50

Laura Farnell
Tenor-Bass Chorus
The Oarsmen

Print (BL1156): $2.50

Meredith Tompkins, Ashley Dame
Tenor-Bass Chorus
Funiculi-Funicula

Print (BL1211): $2.50

Luigi Denza, Vicki Tucker Courtney (arr.)
Tenor-Bass Chorus
She Wakes the Dawn

Print (BL1212): $2.25

Vicki Tucker Courtney
Tenor-Bass Chorus
She is Evening

Print (BL777): $2.25

Vicki Tucker Courtney, John Parker
Tenor-Bass Chorus
The Little Drummer Boy

Print (BL1204): $2.50

Traditional Christmas Songs, Noah Reese (arr.), Debra Siebert (arr.)
Tenor-Bass Chorus
All That Her Heart Desires

Performance Score (BL1178): $2.25

Laura Farnell
Tenor-Bass Chorus

3-Part Mixed Chorus

Treble Chorus | Unison & Two-Part Chorus | Tenor-Bass Chorus | 3-Part Mixed Chorus | Mixed Chorus

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Print (BL1229): $2.25

Cynthia Gray
Three-part Mixed Chorus
Poor Wayfaring Stranger

Print (BL1183): $2.25

Traditional African-American Spiritual, Christi Jones (arr.)
Three-part Mixed Chorus
Dies Irae

Print (BL1185): $2.50

Christi Jones
Three-part Mixed Chorus
Salaam Aleikum

Print (BL1226): $2.75

African Folksong, Laura Farnell (arr.)
Three-part Mixed Chorus

Mixed Chorus

Treble Chorus | Unison & Two-Part Chorus | Tenor-Bass Chorus | 3-Part Mixed Chorus | Mixed Chorus

Doo-Wop Gloria

Print (BL1235): $2.50

Christmas Carol, Christi Jones (arr.)
Mixed Chorus
Lacrimosa Menuet

Print (BL1232): $2.25

Christi Jones
Mixed Chorus
Salaam Aleikum

Print (BL1233): $2.75

African Folksong, Laura Farnell (arr.)
Mixed Chorus
Safe Harbor

Print (BL1158): $2.50

Meredith Tompkins
Mixed Chorus
Go Down, Moses

Print (BL1187): $2.50

Traditional African-American Spiritual, Judy Arthur (arr.)
Mixed Chorus
This Moment

Print (BL1236): $2.25

Vicki Tucker Courtney
Mixed Chorus