Lectionary-Based Curated Recommendations

• A Great Host of Composers A great host of women bring the glad tidings. (Psalm 68:11b). THIS IS SO USEFUL! Listings of choral music and voluntaries by women for the Revised Common Lectionary. Year B Advent through Proper 17B available now. 
  
• Cecilia's List. Blog. Curated lectionary recommendations for Year B in the chronological blog posts, and succinct lists by season in the section Music Lists.

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Selected Collections of:

Choral Works

• Multitude of Voyces' Anthology of Sacred Music by Women Composers
  • See introduction in Articles. Vol 1: SATB anthems. Vol 2: Upper voices. Vol. 3: Advent to Candlemas. Spans centuries, well-researched, includes new music.
• Sarah MacDonald Choral Series: Music for the Church [by women]. Selective and stellar collection of new anthems.
• Kassian Choral Series. A handful of anthems by women. Series named after 9th-century abbess/composer Kassia.
• Hildegard Publishing Company. A whole publishing company dedicated to the works of women!

Congregational Resources

• Voices Found: Women in the Church's Song, Church Music Publishing, 2003.

Organ Works

• Female Composers: 22 Organ Pieces from the 19th and 20th Century
• Women Composer's Album: Twenty Pieces for Organ from the 17th-2oth Centuries, ed. Charles Callahan, MorningStar
• Pipedreams episodes: March 1, 2021; August 17, 2020; August 19, 2013; March 1, 2010; January 25, 2010 (Emma Lou Diemer feature); July 23, 2007; March 3, 2003; March 4, 2002; August 23, 1999.

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List of Resources for Underrepresented Composers

• Institute for Composer Diversity. Navigable, award-winning database.
• Music Sources for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from Rowan University, speaks to every music discipline.
• Programming Resources (alexshapiro.org), programming resources for classical concert contexts.
• Databases of Repertoire by Underrepresented Composers - americanorchestras.org links to a number of databases of works by underrepresented composers.

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