Sr. Cecilia Clare Bocard Compositions
  • StimsonInRehabStimsonInRehab
    Posts: 1,916
    Can someone help me locate some compositions by this Sister of Providence?
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,160
    A web search turns up a few hints:

    Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College had a concert featuring some of her works in 2013:
    https://www.facebook.com/SMWCmusic/posts/10152217789076982

    Wikipedia lists some works:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Clare_Bocard

    A number of titles are listed in Google Books (though they don't have the sheet music on display):
    https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Cecilia+Clare+Bocard+(sister)%22
    The "Find in a library" link for each work leads to a WorldCat search, so that you can find libraries holding copies.

    Her works published by McLaughlin & Reilly (or its predecessor Boston Music) are presumably owned now by Summy-Birchard.

  • JL
    Posts: 171
    Her Ave Maria is found in the Mount Mary Hymnal (1935, I think) edited by the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Milwaukee, and there are some instrumental works listed in WorldCat. If you turn up something brilliant and are willing to tell us about it on the forum, I for one would like to hear it. Sr. CCB's work falls into my longstanding interest in choral works composed by faculty of women's colleges, Catholic or otherwise.
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,160
    Here's that Ave Maria as it appears in the Mount Mary Hymnal. (My copy is from 1937.)
    bocard-ave-maria.pdf
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