314 On the Music of the Middle Ages. 
Moyen Age,’ a work honoured with the special approbation of the 
Academy of Belles Lettres, and no less remarkable for its great 
research, than the beauty of the fac-simile engravings with which 
it is illustrated: but peculiarly interesting to us as containing a 
previously unpublished treatise on Music, by John Hothby, an 
Englishman, who lived at the end of the fourteenth century; and 
during the present year M. L’Abbé Petit, of Verdun, has put forth 
a most learned treatise on the Psalmody and other parts of the 
Gregorian Chant, in their relation to Latin accentuation.? Besides 
new works there has issued from the French press a re-print of 
Jumilliac’s celebrated treatise, “Sur la Science et Pratique du Plain 
Chant,” which was first published in 1673;? and it is only a short 
time ago that I was invited to subscribe to a publication in Paris, 
which was to contain all the Proses and Sequences of the Sarum 
Gradual. 
In Germany, where many of the Chorales are founded entirely 
upon the Scales of the Medieval Music, there is also a growing 
interest in this subject: and in 1849, I found the superintendant 
of a large training school at Brihl, near Cologne, a native of Silesia, 
and not only an accomplished musician, but a composer of con- 
siderable merit, engaged in harmonizing the old melodies, upon 
principles similar in many respects to those which, by an entirely 
independent course of study, I myself had been led to adopt. 
From Italy I have received various recent publications connected 
with the subject; and probably the most interesting disquisition on 
Gregorian Music that has ever appeared, is that by Baini, late 
Maestro di Capella of the Sistine Chapel, in his celebrated Life of 
Palestrina. 
But it is in Belgium that we find the most practical efforts in 
elucidation of the several moot points connected with the Musical 
text of the old Liturgical books. I do not allude to the labours of 
M. Fetis, the Director of the Conservatoire at Brussels, whose 
celebrated “ Biographie des Musiciens” displays such vast researches 
1 Paris: Didron, 1852. Quarto. 
2 Dissertation sur La Psalmodie, Paris: Didron, 1855. 
3 Paris: 1847, 
