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New Ten Pieces Collection

This new collection of ten pieces, written exclusively by women, gives teachers the opportunity to explore and get creative with fantastic classical music whilst also improving representation of women composers in the classroom.

More music from women composers featured in ´óÏó´«Ã½ Ten Pieces

  • Kerry Andrew - No Place Like

    No Place Like is about home and place. The song takes inspiration from words submitted by children, giving young people the opportunity to contribute to one of the Ten Pieces.

  • Grażyna Bacewicz – Overture

    Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz broke new ground as she continued writing music while war threatened to destroy her country.

  • Anna Clyne - Night Ferry (extract)

    When Anna Clyne settled on the idea of creating a piece about crossing a stormy ocean, she picked up a paint brush instead of writing music notes on paper and created a graphic score, laying out how she wanted her piece to sound by using swirls and sweeps of dark, violent colours.

  • Delia Derbyshire – Doctor Who Theme (original theme by Ron Grainer)

    Delia Derbyshire launched a whole new world of music into everyone’s living rooms when swapped traditional musical instruments for electronic sounds in her arrangement of the theme for one of the most famous TV shows ever: Doctor Who.

  • Anna Meredith - Connect It

    Anna Meredith's body percussion piece 'Connect It' uses variety of rhythmic sounds and movements that are passed between the performers to create a canon.

  • Florence Price – Symphony No. 1 in E minor (3rd mvt)

    Classroom resources for Florence Price who overcame prejudice to become the first black female composer to have her work performed by a major orchestra.