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££ Q Dolce Concento.® The favourite Air com- 
posed by Mozart, with Variations by Miss 
Parke. 25. 
HIS air is said in the title-page 
to have been sung (meaning as 
here presented to us, we presume) with 
unbounded applause, both at Bath and 
the Hanover-square rooms. Were we 
asked whether Miss P. has evinced fan- 
cy and ingenuity in her variations, we 
should say, Yes; but were we questioned 
as to their sense and propriety, as to 
their connection with the sentiment of 
the words, or their pretensions to the 
applause of a feeling and judicious 
audience, we should be obliged to re- 
ply with our most energetic negative. 
We are too well acquainted with Miss 
Parke’s good sense, cultivated taste, 
and scientific acquisitions, not to won- 
der that she should compromise them 
all by yielding to the idle, false, frivo- 
lous, and vitiated, style, so prevalent in 
the present age, and so repulsive to 
every auditor who wishes to feel while 
he listens, and not to have his ear gratifi- 
ed at the expense® of passion and intel- 
Ject. Were Mozart living, he would 
run mad to hear the vacant and un- 
meaning quaverings, semi-quaverings, 
and demi-semi-quaverings, that have 
been applied to this simple, chaste, and 
affecting, air. 
A grand Duett for two Performers on one Piano- 
Sorte, as performed by Miss Cheese and the 
Author, at the Concerts in Dublin, Composed 
by Sir J. A, Stevenson, Mus. Doc. §s. 
Much fancy and ingenious construc- 
tion exhibit themselves in this duett. 
The passages are conceived with that 
taste which pervades the greater part 
of sir John Stevenson’s compositions ; 
and the parts are ingeniously combined, 
It is not always that in these conbined 
productions the effect keeps pace with 
the labour, a praise peculiarly due to 
the composer of the present piece. 
Number 1. of a Bavarian Air, with Variations 
Sor the Bana fortes Harp, and Flute. Com- 
posed for the Right Hon. Lady Charlotie Chol- 
mondely, by J. Mazzinghi, esq. Single 3s. 
with Accompaniments, 5s. 
The variations applied by Mr. Maz- 
zinghi to this air, form so many ad- 
ditional instances of his fancy and in- 
genuity. The combined effect of the 
jOstruments to which he has here adapt- 
#d the melody bis taste has selected, 
feflects no trivial credit on his judy- 
ment; and it is justice, not panegyric, 
to say that no judicious ear can attend 
it without pleasure and delight. 
A favourite Sonata for the Piano-forte, dedicated 
io Miss Joanna Smith, by F. Frorillo. 4s. 
This sonata, in which Mr. Fiorillo has 
introduced a popular Scotch air, is ren- 
dered. particularly attractive by the va- 
riety it possesses. ‘The different move- 
ments are happily contrasted, and the 
general effect, partly arising from the di- 
versity and partly from the beauty of the 
Taovements, 1S so excellent as to justfy us 
in recommending the composition to the 
notice of all piano-forte practitioners. 
A grand March, for the Piano-firte. Composed 
and dedicated to Miss M. A. Clemenison, by 
N. Rolfe. 25. 
This march possesses much of the 
true military cast, and exhibits novelty 
with its spirit. The succeeding move- 
ment, for which we wonder Mr. Rolfe 
did not give himself credit in the titles 
page, 1s uncommonly attractive in its 
subject, and concludes the production | 
with excellent effect. 
* For a’ That and a’ That;’? a@ Scotch Air, 
with Variations for the Piano-forte, by T. 
Ross, esq. of Aberdeen. 15. 6d. 
Mr. Ross, of whose ballads and pia- 
no-forte compositions we have so often 
felt ourselves calied upon to speak in 
such commendatory terms, has done 
ample justice to his present subject. 
The variations are familiar, pleasing, 
progressive, and improving, and cannot 
but be valuable tu the young practition- 
er on the instrument for which they are 
designed. 
Lord Wellington, and Three original Airs for 
the Piano-jorte. Composed by G. G. Ferrari: 
In these pieces, which Mr. Ferrari 
has embellished with accompaniments 
for a German flute or violin, we find 
striking evidences of an easy and grace- 
ful imagination, -as well as a respectable 
portion of science. The parts combine 
with much sweetness of etlect ; and it is 
but justice to say the real master is ex- 
hibited throughout, 
* The Kiss and the Tear ;’? a Ballad, written by 
W. Dimond, esq. with an Accompaniment for 
the Piano-forle. Composed and sung by Miss 
Parke. 25, 6d. 
Miss Parke has given to the words 
before us, a melody full of feeling and 
pathos. Their sense is at once sweetly, 
justly, and forcibly, expressed, and, as 
illustrated by the fair composer, cannot 
but reach every heart, If there is any 
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