PROSPECTUS OF THE HARMONICON, 



Ciirp.ini nnil Count Orloff. 



Iniproveniciit in thi- Flute. 



Mu5ic of the Hiuilooa. 



State of Music in America. 



On Meyerbeer's // Crotiato irxEgitto 



On the Velaeit f of Sound. 



Modern Greek Soups. 



Native African Melodies. 



Royal Scliool of Music at Paris. 



French Opera. 



Musical Fcstrtnls at WaXefield, 



Newcastle, Kdinburgh, and York. 

 Italian Musical Literature. 

 The Sireniuni. 

 New Organ at Bristol. 

 Injunction against the Harmonicon. 

 Preciosa, a Romance, by Cervantes, 



to accompany Weber's Music. 

 Musical Gleanini^s in Africa. 

 Ancient Greek Tables. 

 Rossini versus Weber. 

 Notation for the Horn. , 



On God Save the Kiitg. 

 Rossini's Muse in Egttto. 



Remarkable Musical Performance. 



Gretry on Musical Education. 



Oscillations of Sonorous Chords. 



On the Musical Drama. 



Memoir of Meyerbeer. 



The whole Opera of II Cror.iato, to 

 accompany Meyerbeer's Musiu. 



Scotcli Aiusic ancl Dances. 



Haydn's last appearance. 



State of Music in Spain. 



The Fitr.william Music. 



The Atlair of the Heart. 



The Madrigal Society. 



Notes to assist the Jlcmory. 



Origin and History of the Organ. 



Sjiohr's new Opera, The Mountain 

 Spirit. 



Scarce work by MarccUo. 



Mozart's advice to young Com- 

 posers. 



Curious experiments in Sound. 



Account of celebrated Organs. 



On joining Poetry with Alusic, 



Diderot on the Musical Drama. 



Second Yorkshire Musical Festival. 



The King of Prussia .and SpoBtini. 



The Miserere of Allegri. 



Unjiublished I^ctter of Moiart. 



The Haerlem Organ. 



Letter and Addenda on the York 

 Festival. 



Hereford Music Meeting. 



Musical hostilities in Paris. 



Exposure of " a basi notorious" 

 knave. 



A Visit to Beethoven. 



On English Operas. 



Vun Sanrhe, new Opera by Litsz. 



Derby Festival. 



Letters to the Archbishop of Y'ork, 

 and to Dr. Crotch, exposing an 

 immoral and disgraceful charac- 

 ter formerly connected with the 

 Royal Academy of Music. 



Burmese Musical Instruments. 



Funeral Oration over Rossini. 



Music of the Siamese. 



Festiral in honour of Goethe. 



I. BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS. 



oomprisin^ Correspondence, and Criti- 

 cisms on the state of Music, in the Church, 

 the Theatre, the Chamber, in Germany, 



in. FOREIGN MUSICAL REPORT, 



Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, 

 Holland, Russia, the East-Indies, America, 

 Sfc, fyc. 



IV. REVIEW OF NEW MUSIC, 



comprising detailed Criticisms on the I trated by extracts from tlic'Music printed with 

 principal Musical Works of the Day, illus- | the passages in the text which refer to them, j 



HARMONICON EDITIONS OF POPULAR OPERAS. 



No. 



No, 



XXI. is devoted to the Music of DER FREISCHUTZ, containing- the 

 Overture and Nine Vocal and Instrumenttal Pieces, all arranged for the Piano- 

 forte, price 2s. Gd. 



XXVII. contains the Overture and Music (Nine Pieces) of PRECIOSA, 

 together witli an Abridgement of the Romance (by Cervantes) on which the 

 Drama is founded. Price 2s. 6d. 



In No. XXIX. the Overture and Six Pieces from ABU HASSAN, arc given, in 

 addition to Two other Compositions, and the Miscellaneous Contents, price 2s. 6d. 



Nos. XXXI. and XXXII. contain the Pantomime Overture, and Fifteen other Vocal 

 and Instrumental Pieces, from Meyerbeer's IL CROCIATO IN EGITTO; 



the whole of the Music, in that favourite Opera, which is applicable to private 

 performances, together with a programme of tlie Drama, being thus comprised (in 

 addition to the Miscellaneous Contents) in Two Numbers of the Harmonicon, 

 price 2s. 6d. each. 



London : Printed for Samuel Leigh, 18, Strand, and sold by all Booksellers in Town and 

 Country, by whom it is iregularly received with the other London Monthly Publications. 



