Choral Works About Women BY Women
Larger Works Jocelyn Hagen Songs for Muska (SATB, chamber ensemble) JH Music
Linda Tutas Haugen The Diary of Anne Frank (Treble Choir + String Quartet) Ephraim Bay Music Publishing
Libby Larsen The Witches Trio (SSAA) Oxford University Press
Andrea Ramsey Suffrage Songs and Verses - ongoing
Gwyneth Walker Mother Earth: Songs of Strong Women - contact composer
Judith Lang Zaimont Life Cycle (SSAA, piano, perc., 5 movements - ongoing)
Alice Parker, Libby Larsen, Quilt Songs: Women Weaving the Fabric of Life Gabriela Lena Frank, VocalEssence Music Press Ysaye Barnwell, Carol Barnett
Octavos Elizabeth Alexander Why I Pity the Woman Who Never Spills (SSAA) Seafarer Press
Jocelyn Hagen Give Joan a Sword (SATB, piano, cello, perc.) Hands Upon the Plow (SSA, piano, alto sax) Vespertilians (SATB div.) G. Schirmer
Ruth Huber Joan of Arc (Nobody’s Fool Publishing - contact composer) Set Her Free The Voice of Conscience
Libby Larsen The Womanly Song of God A Young Nun Singing
Rosephanye Powell Still I Rise (SATB/SSA)
Joan Szymko Malala (SSAA speaker & doumbek) Joan Szymko Music She Who Makes Her Meaning Clear (SATBB/SSAA, perc.) Water Women (SSAA, piano)
Gwyneth Walker The Right to Vote (SATB) - contact composer Female Composers - Choral Works
Larger Works
Carol Barnett The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass (SATB + bluegrass band)
Maura Bosch The Turning (TB div.) Cantus
Melissa Dunphy American DREAMers (SATB) Mormolyke Press The Gonzales Cantata (SSAT, soloists, chamber ensemble)
Jocelyn Hagen amass (SATB, chamber ensemble, soloists) The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (SATB, orch/chamber ens., video projections)
Linda Tutas Haugen Breath of the Mountains: A Folk Suite (SATB + orchestra)
Edie Hill A Sound Like This (TTBB div/SATB) Hummingbird Press
Sungji Hong Missa Lumen de Lumine (SSA)
Libby Larsen Encircling Skies (SATB, narrator, orchestra) contact composer The Settling Years (SATB, woodwind quintet, piano) ECS Publishing
Caroline Shaw Partita for 8 Voices
Sarah Kirkland Snider Mass for the Endangered (SATB + orchestra)
Joan Szymko Shadow and Light (SATB + orchestra)
Dale Trumbore How to Go On (SATB) Dale Trumbore
Julia Wolfe Anthracite Fields (SATB, chamber ens.)
Octavos
Elizabeth Alexander Faith Is the Bird That Feels the Light (SSA) Seafarer Press I Write This Poem Out of Darkness (SSAA) If You Can Walk You Can Dance (SATB/SAB/SSA/TBB, pno, perc.)
Abbie Betinis Bar Xizam (SATB) Abbie Betinis Music Co. Blessed Be the Lord, My Rock (SAB) Graphite Publishing Jerusalem Luminosa (SA) Neil A. Kjos Music Publishing
Dessa/Hagen Controlled Burn (SATB/SSAA, orch/chamb. ens. string quartet + piano) Graphite Publishing Into the Spin Look Out Above (SATB, TTBB) Poor Atlas
Christine Donkin Autumn Colours in the Canal (SSAA, piano) Graphite Publishing In Flanders Fields (SATB, TTBB) In Paradisum (SATB div.)
Martha Hill Duncan Step to the Fiddle (SA, piano) Graphite Publishing
Jocelyn Hagen I Started Out Singing (SSA/SAB, piano) Graphite Publishing needle & thread (SATB div.) To See the Sky (SATB, piano) We Are the Stars (SATB, string quartet)
Linda Tutas Haugen Black is the Color (SSA)
Rosephanye Powell Non Nobis Domine (SATB/SAB/SSAA/TTBB)
Shruthi Rajasekar Devotee (SSA + Carnatic vocalist) - contact composer Numbers (SATB) Raw Heart (SATB) Sangeetham (TTBB) VocalEssence Music Press
Caroline Shaw Dolce Cantavi (SSA)
Moira Smiley arr. Bring Me Little Water, Silvy (SSAA)
Sarah Kirkland Snider Psalm of the Soul (TB div.) You Must Feel with Certainty (SATB + perc.)
Dale Trumbore Breathe in Hope (SATB/SSAA/TTBB, piano) Closer to Home (SATB/SSAA/TTBB) In the Middle (SATB, piano) Returning (SATB)