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Sheet Music
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Novello's Part-Song Book (Second Series), vol. XV, no. 428
London: Novello, Ewer & Co., n.d.
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General Information
| Work Title
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There Is Beauty on the Mountain. A Glee for Four Voices.
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| Alternative. Title
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| Composer
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Goss, John
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| Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.
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IJG 7
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| First Performance.
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No later than Feb. 13, 1824, at a gathering of the Concentores Sodales,
according to Grove 1890 at p.384. But see Musical Times, June 1, 1880, at p.270,
stating that this glee was composed in 1825.
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| Librettist
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Bernard Barton (1784–1849)
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| Language
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English
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| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period
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Romantic
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| Piece Style
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Romantic
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| Instrumentation
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SATB (originally?) with piano accompaniment
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Navigation etc.
"... Goss first made his mark as a composer in his charmingly
melodious glee, 'There is beauty on the mountain' -- a gem of
the first water." Musical Times, Apr. 1, 1901, p.226.
