Test your knowledge with the RMCM's 1908 paper on musical form and analysis.

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Did you know that the RNCM used to have its own luthier? Here he is in his workshop.

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Did you know that the origins of the Royal Northern College of Music come from two different colleges? The Northern School of Music and the Royal Manchester College of Music. This here is the RMCM on the corner of Ducie Street and Oxford Road (near where Contact Theatre is now).

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Did you know that John Ogdon often used the covers of his manuscripts as note paper, jotting down telephone messages, ideas, addresses and even shopping lists! This is from his "The King of Alsander" opera for voice and piano.

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Did you know that pianist and composer John Ogdon edited his manuscripts so much that he took to cutting and pasting new music over the old, creating this scrapbook effect in his manuscripts.

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Did you know that Elizabeth Harwood (former RMCM student) starred in a recording of The Merry Widow opera with the Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor Herbert von Karajan sends her a telegram to tell her she is fabulous in the recordings.

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With thanks to the Harwood Memorial Trust

Did you know that the Fuchs autograph album is full of famous names, including little musical ditties such as this by Rachmaninoff.

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Did you know that as well as being a famous children's composer and teacher, Walter Carroll was also something of a pedagogue? This "River of Work" maps out his understanding of the routes to success. What do you think?

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With thanks to the Ida Carroll Trust
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Thomas Pitfield, Alice Pitfield and pal on holibobs in France.

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With thanks to the Thomas Pitfield Trust
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Movement medicine at the Royal Northern College of Music. And a case of vodka...?

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Posing with a Ford rocking the RNCM shirt - living life loud.

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From the Richard Hall collection with a bemused clergyman in the background.

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Philip Newman and Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians having a gay old time.

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Philip Newman and David Oistrakh pouring over a score.

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Composer and pianist Victor Bendix is a little torn up in this photograph. Friend of Anna and Adolph Brodsky, this was sent as a token of friendship, hopefully in one piece!

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The Royal Northern College of Music's cost is now nearly £900,000 - almost 4 times as much as the original estimate.

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Music in the north features the Hallé supported by the Northern School of Music chorus.

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

The Northern School of Music perform Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, featuring Alfreda Hodgson, Rae Woodland, Malcolm Lea and Peter Walker.

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

The Northern School of Music's Easter concert features Brent Lord, David Ogden, Edmund Owenson, John Thirkettle, John Foster, Judith Rawlins, Mark Marshall, Hilary Moss, Michael Scott, Ruth Williams and John Wilson.

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Northern School of Music students perform under Maurice Handford for a concert at Salford Uni.

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

The Hallé will soon be touring South America and have just staged Verdi's Otello with a little help from the Northern School of Music chorus.

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

The Royal Northern College of Music may or may not be delayed - typical. It was originally supposed to cost a quarter mil too, but by this time is nearly £750,000.

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.