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.
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
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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
Grades ½ – 1½
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On The Wings Of Butterflies
Score and Parts (N100302): $60.00 Full Score (N100302F): $15.00 Concert Band
Grade 2 - 2½
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March of the Freedom Fighters
Score and Parts (YPS179): $70.00 Full Score (YPS179F): $11.00 Concert Band -
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New Horizons Fanfare and Processional
Score and Parts (N200196): $75.00 Full Score (N200196F): $20.00 Concert Band -
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Celebration Of A New Day
Score and Parts (N200201): $70.00 Full Score (N200201F): $15.00 Concert Band -
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Kait Shannon Reel
Score and Parts (N200194): $70.00 Full Score (N200194F): $20.00 Jeanette Arsenault, Randy Navarre (arr.)Concert Band
Grade 3 - 3½
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Toy Soldier Marches
Score and Parts (CPS258): $75.00 Full Score (CPS258F): $13.00 Marsha Shapiro (arr.)Concert Band -
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Acadian Moon
Score and Parts (N300168): $85.00 Full Score (N300168F): $20.00 Jeanette Arsenault, Randy Navarre (arr.)Concert Band -
A Long And Winding Stream
Score and Parts (N300178): $75.00 Full Score (N300178F): $15.00 Concert Band -
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Water Reflections
Score and Parts (SPS83D-PDF): $100.00 Score and Parts (SPS83): $100.00 Full Score (SPS83FD-PDF): $9.80 Full Score (SPS83F): $14.00 Concert Band -
Early Light
Score and Parts (SPS3): $135.00 Full Score (SPS3F): $14.00 Large Score (SPS3L): $35.00 Carolyn BremerConcert Band -
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Suite From China West
Score and Parts (115-40201): $200.00 Full Score (115-40201FD-PDF): $40.00 Full Score (115-40201F): $40.00 Large Score (115-40201L): $50.00 Chen YiConcert Band -
Wind
Score and Parts (115-40208): $125.00 Score and Parts (115-40208D-PDF): $125.00 Full Score (115-40208FD-PDF): $40.00 Full Score (115-40208F): $40.00 Large Score (115-40208L): $50.00 Chen YiConcert Band -
Roma
Score and Parts (115-40207): $160.00 Score and Parts (115-40207D-PDF): $160.00 Full Score (115-40207FD-PDF): $35.00 Full Score (115-40207F): $35.00 Large Score (115-40207L): $50.00 Valerie ColemanConcert Band -
Fanfare; Reminiscence and Celebration
Score and Parts (145-40034): $175.00 Full Score (145-40034F): $25.00 Large Score (145-40034L): $40.00 Ellen ZwilichConcert Band
Works by Women in String Orchestra
Grades ½ – 1½
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5th Avenue Rock
Score and Parts (BAS85): $50.00 Full Score (BAS85F): $6.50 Single Part (BAS85P): $3.50 String Orchestra -
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Chanukah Lights and Dreydls
Score and Parts (PAS16): $50.00 Full Score (PAS16F): $6.50 String Orchestra -
Land of the Silver Birch
Score and Parts (BAS25D-PDF): $48.00 Score and Parts (BAS25): $48.00 Full Score (BAS25FD-PDF): $6.50 Full Score (BAS25F): $6.50 String Orchestra
Grade 2 - 2½
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Academic Festival March
Score and Parts (YAS212): $55.00 Full Score (YAS212F): $8.50 String Orchestra -
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Silver Moon
Score and Parts (YAS192D-PDF): $55.00 Score and Parts (YAS192): $55.00 Full Score (YAS192FD-PDF): $8.50 Full Score (YAS192F): $8.50 String Orchestra -
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Le Printemps
Score and Parts (YAS178D-PDF): $55.00 Score and Parts (YAS178): $55.00 Full Score (YAS178FD-PDF): $8.50 Full Score (YAS178F): $8.50 String Orchestra -
Chinese Folk Song Suite
Score and Parts (YAS226): $55.00 Full Score (YAS226F): $8.50 String Orchestra -
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Dynamism
Score and Parts (YAS217): $55.00 Full Score (YAS217F): $8.50 Single Part (YAS217P): $3.50 String Orchestra -
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Grade 3 - 3½
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Meteor Shower
Score and Parts (CAS104D-PDF): $60.00 Score and Parts (CAS104): $60.00 Full Score (CAS104FD-PDF): $9.50 String Orchestra -
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7th Street Beat
Score and Parts (CAS123D-PDF): $60.00 Score and Parts (CAS123): $60.00 Full Score (CAS123FD-PDF): $9.50 Full Score (CAS123F): $9.50 String Orchestra -
To the Ocean
Score and Parts (CAS121D-PDF): $60.00 Score and Parts (CAS121): $60.00 Full Score (CAS121FD-PDF): $9.50 Full Score (CAS121F): $9.50 String Orchestra -
Grade 4 +
Works by Women in Choral Music
Treble Chorus
Unison & Two-Part Chorus
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Round and Round: A Collection of Rounds for Emerging Choirs
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Tenor-Bass Chorus
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The Little Drummer Boy
Print (BL1204): $2.75 Traditional Christmas Songs, Noah Reese (arr.), Debra Siebert (arr.)Tenor-Bass Chorus -
3-Part Mixed Chorus
Mixed Chorus
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Scenes from the Life of a Martyr
Performance Score (VS7A): $10.99 Vocal Score (VS7): $45.00 Mixed Chorus -
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Go Down, Moses
Print (BL1187): $2.50 Traditional African-American Spiritual, Judy Arthur (arr.)Mixed Chorus -
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