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Total number of records: 157

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Books and printed items151
Archives6

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection103
Herbert Read Collection2
Ripon Cathedral2
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
vocal quartets with piano24
glees, catches, rounds, etc21
part-songs, english11
string quartets9
operas8
vocal quartets, unaccompanied6
quartets (flute, violin, viola, violoncello)5
vocal quartets with orchestra5
operas, arranged4
string quartets, arranged4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827)43
Hullah, John27
Hullah, John (1812-1884)27
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy19
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847)19
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)9
Storace, Stephen (1762-1796)7
Dussek, Johann Ladislaus (1760-1812)6
Pleyel, Ignaz (1757-1831)6
Moore, Thomas5

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From 170051
From 1800106

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Up to 179918
Up to 1899139

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What phrase sad and soft : Quartet

Bishop, Sir Henry R (1786-1855); Opie, Amelia (1769-1853)

[18--]

Words by A. Opie.

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Three quartets for two violins, a tenor & bass

Pugnani, Gaetano (1731-1798)

[ca. 1770]

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Three quartets for two violins, a tenor & bass

Pugnani, Gaetano (1731-1798)

[ca. 1770]

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Three quartets for two violins, a tenor & bass

Pugnani, Gaetano (1731-1798)

[ca. 1770]

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Three quartets for two violins, a tenor & bass

Pugnani, Gaetano (1731-1798)

[ca. 1770]

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Novello's Octavo edition of trios, quartets, & c. for female voices.

late 19th century

Several copies of 'Novello's Octavo edition of trios, quartets, & c. for female voices', a collection of popular sheet music. Published in London by Novello and Company, Ltd.

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The overture, songs, duets & quartet in the opera of the Royal shepherd : as perform'd at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane

Rush, Mr (fl. 1760-1780); Rolt, Richard (1770); Metastasio, Pietro (1698-1782)

[1764]

Libretto by R. Rolt, after P. Metastasio's 'Il re pastore'. Overture arr. for harpsichord; vocal numbers mostly arr. for voices and continuo (figured bass) or in condensed score. Without the recit...

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Five times by the taper's light : quartet from Colman's play "The iron chest" for S.A.T.B

Storace, Stephen (1762-1796); Colman, George (1762-1836); Hullah, John (1812-1884)

[between 1856 and 1863]

For 4 voices (SATB) and piano. Piano arrangement by J. Hullah?. Caption title. Series published between 1859 and 1885 (CPM).

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Five times by the taper's light : quartet from Colman's play "The iron chest" for S.A.T.B

Storace, Stephen (1762-1796); Colman, George (1762-1836); Hullah, John (1812-1884)

[between 1856 and 1863]

For 4 voices (SATB) and piano. Piano arrangement by J. Hullah?. Caption title. Series published between 1859 and 1885 (CPM).

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Programme from Buckingham Palace

13 May 1852

Programme from Buckingham Palace, at which Clara Anastasia Novello sang compositions by Meyerbeer, Mendelssoh, Rossini, Nicolai and Donizetti as solos, duets and as part of a quartet.

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