Women Composers Database
The Database
This curated database of sacred music compiles choral music and voluntaries by women composers for the church year, with listings for each Sunday and feast days.
YearForcesVoicingDifficultyAccompanimentLanguage
Advent
Christmas
Epiphany
- Epiphany21
- Baptism of Christ2
- First Sunday after Epiphany9
- Second Sunday after Epiphany9
- Third Sunday after Epiphany11
- Fourth Sunday after Epiphany8
- Fifth Sunday after Epiphany9
- Sixth Sunday after Epiphany5
- Seventh Sunday after Epiphany2
- Last Sunday after Epiphany10
- Presentation (February 2)10
- Transfiguration (August 6)6
Lent
Holy Week
Easter
Season after Pentecost
- Corpus Christi (Thursday after Trinity Sunday1
- Trinity1
- Trinity Sunday13
- Proper 56
- Proper 67
- Proper 78
- Proper 810
- Proper 97
- Proper 108
- Proper 1110
- Proper 129
- Proper 136
- Proper 1410
- Proper 158
- Proper 168
- Proper 177
- Proper 189
- Proper 1912
- Proper 209
- Proper 2111
- Proper 2210
- Proper 2312
- Proper 2411
- Proper 257
- Proper 268
- Proper 277
- Proper 288
- Proper 29 (The Reign of Christ)11
Evensong
Mass
Ordinary Time
Weddings & Occasional Services
Feasts & Commemorations
- All Saints / Christ the King1
- All Saints' Day (Nov. 1)15
- All Souls2
- All Souls' Day (Nov. 2)16
- Conversion of St. Paul (Jan. 25)9
- Corpus Christi (Thursday after Trinity Sunday)7
- Feast of St Joseph (March 19)1
- Hildegard of Bingen (Sept. 17)9
- Holy Cross Day (Sept. 14)3
- Independence Day3
- International Women's Day (March 8)10
- Julian of Norwich (May 8)7
- Nativity of St. John the Baptist (June 24)1
- St. Barnabas (June 11)1
- St. Bartholomew (August 24)1
- St. Cecilia (Nov. 22)5
- St. Francis of Assisi (Oct. 4)16
- St. James the Apostle (July 25)1
- St. Mary Magdalene (July 22)3
- St. Mary the Virgin (Aug. 15)12
- St. Matthew (Sept. 21)1
- St. Michael and All Angels (Sept. 29)3
- St. Peter & St. Paul (June 29)3
- St. Peter and St. Paul1
- St. Simon & St. Jude (Oct. 28)1
- Teresa of Ávila (Oct. 15)2
- Thanksgiving1
- Thanksgiving Day10
- Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (May 31)2
Mass Settings, Canticles, Responses & Chant
Readings indexed are from the three-year Revised Common Lectionary (RCL). This lectionary is used by churches around the world in its original or an adapted form.
The database is also available as the original spreadsheet, with updates through June 2026.