A MONTHLY MUSICAL JOURNAL. 



THE SELECTED MUSIC 



comprises some of the Finest Works of the Antient and Modern Masters, newly 

 arranged and adapted (where necessary, from larger works) for private per- 

 formance. They embrace the compositions of 

 Czerny, Kuffner, Nares, Dr. I Rousseau, 



Diabelli, Leidersdorf, Oginsky, Salieri, 



Dibdin, Lindpaintner, Onslow, [ Sarti, 



Dugazon, Linley, (Thos.) Pa^r, ^mith, 



Diissek, Linley, (W. Esq.) Payer, bpolir. 



Field (of Petersb.) Lully, Pergolesi, Spontini, 



Foreith, Mayseder, P'xis, Steibelt, 



Gates. Mehul, Plachy, Turner, 



Geliuek, Meissonier, Purcell, Vaccaj, 



Gerke, Mercadante, Raraeau, Weber, Carl Maria, 



Handel, Meyerbeer, Ries, }l^^^'^' , , 



Haydn, Morlacchi, Ri!?el, Worziscbek, 



Hertz, Mosca, Rigliini, Zimmermann, 



Himmel, Moscheles, Romaguesi, Ziugarelh. 



Hummel, Mozart, Rossini, 



Arne, 



ApDoid, 



Asioli, 



Auber, 



Bach, (J. S.) 



Basili, 



Beethoven, 



Blangini, 



Boieldieu, 



Boyce, (Dr.) 



Caraffa, 



Carulli, 



Cherubini, 



Cimarosa, 



Corelli, 



In the course of the Work are introduced many curious specimens of 

 NATIONAL MUSIC, 



comprising the Popular Melodies of various countries, and others hitherto unknown 

 in England. They consist of — 



American, 

 Ashantee, 

 Brazilian, 

 Bohemian, 



Danish, 

 Esquimaux, 

 Fan tee, 

 French. 



German, 

 Greek, 

 Hungarian, 

 Irish, 



Italian, 

 Moldavian, 

 Persian, 

 Russian. 



Scotch, 

 Spanish, 

 Swiss, 

 Welsh. 



The Literary Department contains, among others, Papers on the following subjects ; 

 I. ESSAYS, NOTICES, and MEMOIRS. 



Royal Academy of Music. 



On the Origin of Music. 



State of Music in Italy. 



Ancient Frencli and Italian singers. 



Sketches and Memoirs, by Miss 



Hawkins. 

 On the Gregorian Channt, witli 



specimens of the Ancient Eccle- 

 siastical Music. 

 Establishment and Progress of the 



Italian Opera in England. 

 Progress of Music in Germany. 

 On the FrciscAiifj of Carl Maria V. 



Weber. 

 On Rossini's Maometto. 

 Parallel between Spontini, Rossini, 



and Meyer. 

 On the Minor Scale. 

 A Philharmonic Society at Paris. 

 Tables of Harmony. 

 On Spanish Music. 

 Musical War. 



Improvement of the Violoncello. 

 La Musica Medica. 

 Music of the Modem Greeks. 

 Signer Carpani versus the Author 



of Letters on Haydn. 

 Miscellaneous Thoughts on Music. 

 State of the Opera in Italy. 

 On the Vibrations of a Tuning Fork. 

 Signor Perotti on the State of Music 



in Italy. 

 Mode of communicating Musical 



Sounds to Deaf Persons. 

 On Flute Playing. 

 The Violocembalo, or Xcenorphica 

 Gloucester Grand Musical Festival. 

 York Grand Musical Festival. 



On Musical Calculations. 



Spohr's Address to the German 



Composers. 

 On Musical Colouring. 

 Recovery of a long lost Musical MS. 

 Description of an Antique Greek 



Lyre. 

 Character and Treatment of the 



Obbe. 

 Liverpool and Birmingham Musical 



Festivals. 

 Recent improvements in the Flijte. 

 On the Chorusses of the Persian 



Dervishes. 

 Persian Melodies, with Accompa- 

 niments for Piano. 

 Dialogue on the merits of Rossini. 

 State of Music in Vienna. 

 A Day with Beethoven. 

 Introduction of- Mozart's Music in 



Italy. 

 State of Music In Sicily. 

 On Spohr's " Rajah's Wife." 

 Original Letter of Gretry. 

 Greek Musical Notation. 

 Rosini ft'ted at Paris. 

 Haydn on " the Seven Last Words 



of our Saviour on the Cross." 

 Morlacchi's II Sacrifizio d'Abele. 

 On the Swiss Ranz des Vaches,v,'ith 



the airs used in the Cantons. 

 The Componium. 

 Rossini and the French Institute. 

 Unpublished MSS. of Mozart. 

 Musical Phenomena. 

 Origin and History of the Concert 



Spirituel. 

 Melodies of Switzerland. 



Captain Parry on the Music of tlie 

 Esquimaux, with the Airs col- 

 lected during the late voyage to 

 the Arctic Regions. 



Life and Times of Salvator Rosa. 



The Works of Charles Dibdin. 



Account of Saverio Mercadante. 



Discoveries in the Ambrosian Li- 

 brary. 



Letters from the F Sharp of the 

 Russian Imperial Horn Music. 



Revolution in Song effected by 

 Rossini. 



State of Music in Geneva. 



State of Music in Turkey. 



Concert Pitch, and its reform. 



On Musical Expression. 



Effect of Music upon animals. 



Origin of the Irish air Culan. 



Art of ornamenting Song. 



Celebration of Mozart's birth. 



On the Violin. 



State of Music in Germany and 

 the Netherlands. 



Cambridge and Norwich Musical 

 Festivals. 



Yorkshire Amateur Music Meeting. 



Farey on Concert Pitch. 



Letter from Nicolo Zingarelli. 



Beethoven's re-appearance in Vi- 

 enna. 



On the Music of the Ashantees and 

 Fantees, with specimens of native 

 airs. 



Some partii-ulars in the life of 

 Nicolo .Tomelli. 



Novello's arrangement of the Ore- 

 goriaa Hymn. 



