'''Bertha Remick''' (15 December 1872 - 14 July 1965) was an American artist, composer, music educator, and pianist.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=30 November 1919 |title=Miss Remick's Art Work Is Displayed at the Craftsman |work=Boston Advertiser |pages=2E}}</ref> She sometimes published under the pseudonym '''Sybil Paget'''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 October 1893 |title=Boston Society |work=Boston Post |pages=16}}</ref>
Remick was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, to Anna L. and Henry T. Remick.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bertha Remick |url=https://www.ancestry.com/offers/join?dbid=5062&gsfn&gsln&h=5372814&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fcollections%2F5062%2Frecords%2F5372814 |access-date=2025-10-04 |website=www.ancestry.com}}</ref> Her father was a singer; her mother was a pianist and teacher. Her uncle Edward T. Remick was a composer and choirmaster.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Crothers |first=Stella Reid |date=28 August 1909 |title=Bertha Remick, of Massachusetts, Whose Works Include Orchestral, String Trio and Vocal Selections |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_musical-america_1909-08-28_10_16/page/14/mode/2up?q=%22bertha+remick%22 |journal=Musical America |volume=10 |issue=16 |pages=15}}</ref>
Remick studied music in Boston with John Wheeler Tufts and in Dresden with Pittrich (not further identified; possibly Georg Pittrich or Carl Pittrich). She also studied music in New York for five years.<ref name=":1" />
Remick was interested in American Indian music and gave lecture recitals on world folk music.<ref name=":1" /> She taught at the Florence Fleming Noyes School of Rhythmic Expression in Boston, Massachusetts.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Great_Composers_of_the_World_who_Have_Co/Q5ZYt1azQxwC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Bertha+Remick+composer&pg=PA37&printsec=frontcover |title=Great Composers of the World who Have Contributed to the Progressive Music Series |date=1923 |publisher=Silver, Burdett, & Company |language=en}}</ref> In the summer of 1915, she taught a course on the psychological value and recognition of music through rhythm at the school's summer session in South Woodstock, Connecticut.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Pan_Pipes_of_Sigma_Alpha_Iota/be0sAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Bertha+Remick+composer&pg=RA1-PA13&printsec=frontcover |title=Pan Pipes of Sigma Alpha Iota |date=1915 |publisher=George Banta Company |language=en}}</ref>
In addition to composing original music, Remick arranged the works of other composers, frequently collaborating with other musicians. With B. R. Sharon, she arranged songs from Wagner's ''Tannhäuser''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wagner |first=Richard |url=https://elibrary.wayne.edu/record=1108087 |title=Tannhäuser: and the singers contest at Wartburg |last2=Remick |first2=Bertha |date=1914 |publisher=C. C. Birchard |location=Boston |publication-date=1914}}</ref> and ''Die Meistersinger'',<ref>{{Cite book |last=Office |first=Library of Congress Copyright |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Catalog_of_Copyright_Entries/s0YhAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Bertha+Remick+death&pg=PA1604&printsec=frontcover |title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical Compositions. Part 3 |date=1914 |publisher=Library of Congress. |language=en}}</ref> and with David Stevens, she arranged songs from Bizet's ''Carmen'', all for use by school choruses.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Musical_America/Mkc0AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Bertha+Remick+composer&pg=RA5-PA34&printsec=frontcover |title=Musical America |date=1915 |publisher=Music Publications, Limited |language=en}}</ref>
Although she never formally studied art, Remick's paintings were shown in Boston in 1919<ref name=":0" /> and in 1939 at Morton Galleries in New York.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=She Paints Ravel |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_arts-magazine_1939-01-15_13_8/page/16/mode/2up?q=%22bertha+remick%22 |journal=Art Digest |volume=13 |issue=8 |pages=16}}</ref>
Some of Remick's music is in the collection of the Boston Public Library.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hunt |first=Rebecca |date=2019-03-01 |title=Women Composers in Turn of the Century Boston |url=https://www.bpl.org/blogs/post/women-composers-in-turn-of-the-century-boston |access-date=2025-10-04 |language=en-US}}</ref> Several of her songs were included in ''The Progressive Music Series'' by Horatio William Parker<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Parker |first=Horatio William |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SuY1UIJj8r4C&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA304&dq=Bertha+Remick+composer&hl=en&source=newbks_fb#v=onepage&q=Bertha%20Remick%20composer&f=false |title=The Progressive Music Series |date=1919 |publisher=Silver Burdett |language=en}}</ref> and in ''Primary Melodies'' by Elbridge Ward Newton.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Newton |first=Elbridge Ward |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Primary_Melodies/z3wBAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Bertha+Remick+composer&pg=PP11&printsec=frontcover |title=Primary Melodies |date=1907 |publisher=Ginn and Company |language=en}}</ref> Her compositions were published by C. C. Birchard and Co.,<ref name=":5">{{Citation |title=Anchored |date=1913 |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/101766437 |access-date=2025-10-04 |place=Boston, Mass. |publisher=C. C. Birchard & Company}}</ref> G. Schirmer Inc.,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stewart-Green |first=Miriam |title=Women composers: A checklist of works for the solo voice |date=1980 |publisher=Hall |isbn=978-0-8161-8498-9 |series=A reference publication in women's studies |location=Boston, Mass |pages=60}}</ref> J. G. Seeling,<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |title=Hofmeister XIX |url=https://hofmeister.rhul.ac.uk/2008/content/database/indices/composers/composer/compo_028034.html?fieldTxt=composers&startTxt=Ra-Rz&field1Txt=Remick,%20Bertha |access-date=2025-10-04 |website=hofmeister.rhul.ac.uk}}</ref> and Oliver Ditson.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Office |first=Library of Congress Copyright |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Catalog_of_Copyright_Entries/_AI4AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=bertha+remick&pg=PA265&printsec=frontcover |title=Catalog of Copyright Entries |date=1909 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |language=en}}</ref> Her works included:
==Musical theater==
*''Enchanted Forest'' (with Florence Fleming Noyes)<ref name=":2" /> *''Magic Pipes of Pan'' (with Florence Fleming Noyes)<ref name=":2" /> *''Masque'' (with Florence Fleming Noyes)<ref name=":2" /> *''Nine Muses<ref>{{Cite news |date=19 August 1911 |title=Boston Girl Composer Getting “Muses” in Tune |url=https://ask.bpl.org/loaderTicket?fid=5232769&type=0&key=6deeea26ba03d8b0ea7c70fa4f1e1898 |work=Boston Evening Record |pages=8}}</ref>'' *''Suffrage Pageant'' (with Hazel MacKaye and James E. Beggs<ref>{{Cite book |last=Remick |first=Bertha. |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012477066 |title=Program, pageant and ball, April 17th, 1914, 71st Regiment Armory: Men's League for Woman Suffrage of the State of New York, in collaboration with the Equal Franchise Society, presents a pageant written and directed by Hazel MacKaye, pageant director of the Equal Franchise Society: music composed by Bertha Remick: score arranged by James E. Beggs. |last2=Mackaye |first2=Hazel. |last3=Equal Franchise Society. |last4=Men's League for Woman Suffrage of the State of New York. |date=1914 |publisher=Men's League for Woman Suffrage of the State of New York : Equal Franchise Society |series=Men's League for Woman Suffrage of the State of New York, in collaboration with the Equal Franchise Society, presents a pageant |location=New York}}</ref>
== Piano ==
*''Fairy Tale<ref name=":7">{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Aaron I. |title=International Encyclopedia of Women Composers |date=1987 |publisher=Books & Music (USA) |isbn=978-0-9617485-1-7 |pages=578 |language=en}}</ref>'' *''Romance''<ref name=":1" />
== Rhythm Band ==
*Come Join the Dance (by Alphons Czibulka; arranged by J. Lilian Vandevere and Bertha Remick)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Czibulka |first=Alphons |title=Come join the dance! : (Stephanie gavotte) |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/18474771 |access-date=2025-10-04 |website=worldcat.org |language=en}}</ref>
== Vocal ==
*“A Mistake”<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Musician/GEZNhuRTzb4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Bertha+Remick+composer&pg=PA241&printsec=frontcover |title=The Musician |date=1903 |publisher=Hatch Music Company |language=en}}</ref> *“Anchored” (music by Michael Watson; text by Samuel K. Cowan; arranged by Bertha Remick)<ref name=":5" /> *“Blind Man’s Bluff”<ref name=":4" /> *“Bunny”<ref name=":4" /> *“Caterpillar and the Bee”<ref name=":3" /> *“Im Fruehling”<ref name=":7" /> *“In My Love’s Garden” (song cycle)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Remick |first=Bertha |title=In My Love's Garden |url=https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/b/b0/IMSLP175774-SIBLEY1802.5343.9c46-39087012348191spinnlied.pdf}}</ref> *“Irish Girl’s Song”<ref name=":7" /> *“Mother o’ Mine” (text by Rudyard Kipling)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bertha Remick Song Texts {{!}} LiederNet |url=https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_settings.html?ComposerId=14559 |access-date=2025-10-04 |website=www.lieder.net}}</ref> *“O Captain! My Captain!”<ref>{{Cite book |last=Armitage |first=Marie Teresa |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Junior_Laurel_Songs/fgSVGkkKJbYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Bertha+Remick+composer&pg=PT2&printsec=frontcover |title=Junior Laurel Songs |date=1915 |publisher=C.C. Birchard |language=en}}</ref> *“Ragman”<ref name=":3" /> *“Scissors Grinder”<ref name=":7" /> *“Ten Thousand Eyes”<ref name=":7" /> *“Umbrella Man”<ref name=":3" /> *“Zwei Lieder”<ref name=":6" />
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