There is no historical or geographical limit on what can be covered. There is no restriction on the style or genre of song or singing.
By far the largest online source of music for performers is IMSLP.org, with nearly 800,000 scanned scores. 14 stellar performances demonstrate the range of their holdings.
Creating music for Christmas creates particular challenges for composers – male or female. Here are twelve works by eleven women from five different countries.
A century ago, Christina Georgina Rossetti was the woman poet that women composers set most frequently. Her popularity endures, spanning the globe, as this international playlist demonstrates.
A playlist of 11 songs (and 12 stellar performances) of songs Florence Price wrote to poems by Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and three Black women poets.
