1816.] List of Neiv Piiblicaflons in Atfgust. 165 



approve. Of the exercises tlicniselves, position before us. The time, or inea- 



tve Ii.ive only to say, that they are pleasing, 

 tasteful, and so progressive, that the 

 praetitioner is led forward with such au 

 insensible increase in tlie execution, 

 thrit lie may rather be said to iiave 

 evaded, tiiaii to have encountered, the 

 diflicuitics of initiation. 



Sludii, for the Piiwo-fortc ; cmsistitig "/ 

 twenty-four Exorcism in the major and 

 minor keys, Composid, fingered, and 

 dedicated to Muzio dementi, esq. ; by 

 F. Kalhhrenner. lOs. 6d. 

 TliQsc Stitdii, or digital exercises, are 

 closely worked, replete with elaborate 

 fingering, and volatile in execution. 



sure, is ill chosen ; the series of distances 

 exhibit little novelty, and the expression 

 wanders from the sentinicut— ^-we mean, 

 what little sentiment the words possess; 

 for assuredly, this poem, as it is called, 

 and some dogg'.ral about a female 

 " boi'u in a garret, and in a kitchen 

 bred," are among the very worst of Lord 

 Byron's rhymes. 

 " The Ilarb'iur of Peace." The words by 



T. L. I'< acocix, esq. The music ci'nposed, 



and dedicated to Duclor Crotch, by his 



}iiipil, IV. A. NiiLl. Is. Gd. 



To say that Mr. Nield has done to- 

 lerable justice to the words of this song 



As appeals to the ear, wc cannot say they isgiving his music much commendaf ion; 



are highly pleasing, however ingeniously fo,- they are written with taste and spi- 



constructed ; hut, as lessons, or tasks for ,-it^ a„(i claimed the super-added effort* 



the hand, are willing to award them our of a qualified composer. 



praise. They coinprize a vast variety 



of mamral shifts and pcjsitiotis, and are 



calculated to prepare both the eye ar.d 



mind of the practitioner, for the most 



sudden and extravagant transitions, 



Mhethcr in regard of local distance, or 



tonic modulation. 



" Fare Thee Well ;" written by Lord Byron, 

 cninpos'd by John Whitnker. Is. od. 

 Of i\Ir. Whitaker's general merit, as 



The style of the poetry is a littl* 

 Ossianic; "The restless flash of the night- 

 biliovvs ra^ing to the tempest's commo- 

 tion," contrasted by the succeedingf 

 " softness of a smiling, tranquillized 

 morning," form the ruling subject of tlie 

 stanzas, and the varied scenery is sue-* 

 cessfully imitated by the appended me- 

 lody and its accompaniments. The 

 selection of F. minor, for the gloomy 



a musical composer, we have spoken and tcrrifie portion of (he deseriptioit, 



too often and too decidedly to be sus- is judicious; and the transition to the 



peeted of fastidiousness, in whatever we major of the original key, at the cou- 



shall say of any particular production eluding allusion to '' 'J"he Harbour oT 



of his genius; and, therefore, we with Peace," is both appropriate and happily 



the less scrupulosity denounce the com- efficient. 



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