588 Review of New Musical Puilicatious. 



[Jan. Ij 



ently preparing our fceliiif^s for tlic sen- 

 timents of llie poetry. We do not, how- 

 ever, mean by these remarks, to tlis- 

 «;ourage Mr. Harris from future at- 

 tempts of tills nature. On the contrary, 

 we wish him to proeced, hecausc wc 

 think he possesses talents; asid point 

 ont these defects, that he may be in- 

 duced to cultivate liis judgment. 



" Sly J^Mtive Land is Free ;" suii^ Inj Mr. 

 Slade ; and " Young Ivan,'' siin<i tnj Mus- 

 ter Williams, holh in the Mdo-Drama, 

 '■^ Iwannwna, or TUe Maid cf Moscuio;" 

 tvritten by Mr. C. Dibdin, composed bij 

 Mr. J. H'hitaker. Each Is. 6d. 

 Tiie fust of these son^s is sjiirited 

 and martial ; tlie second, tender 

 and pathetic. AVc, lunvevcr, by no 

 means wouhl be understood to award 

 any extraordinary praise to either. 

 Both are destitute of individual and 

 distinguisliing character; and both come 

 tinder that common-i.lacc description 

 which suits almost ccpially well the 

 whole congeries of military movements, 

 and billet-doux in rhyme. Not a sin- 

 gle new idea can we discover cither in 

 the bravado, or the ditty: and tn call 

 them compositions, would be confound- 

 ing the woids compositimi and compi- 

 lation. 



"Allen a Dale ;" a Son^ from Tfnkcbij ; coin- 

 jioicd, and insaihed to Miss Hamiltvn, of 

 Ilamcl Hempstead, by William Gres- 

 ham. 2s. 



The beauty and simplicity of this air 

 challenge our commendation. It is 

 without alleetation, free from disjunc- 

 tion of idea, flowing, natural, and di- 

 rected to tiic heart. If we may say, 

 that it reminds us of the pure and pa- 

 thetic style of the best oUi ballads, we 

 are far from charging Mr. Gresham with 

 the crime of plagiarism: it is the un- 

 affected smootlnicss, the touching ten- 

 derness, which he has imitated, not bor- 

 rowed; and he is indebted to an excel- 

 lent native taste for the examples he 

 has selected. 



" When SapcliO tun'd the rapt'roiis Sliain ;'' 

 rt Caiizonetj itriilen bi/ Dr. Siiioliet. Covi- 

 piiseU b:j J. M-Murdie, Mus. Bac. 

 Oxon. -s. 



"We are sorry not to be aide to award 

 to this production any distinguished 

 praise. We discover in it something of 

 the master, but nothing of the man of 

 p-euius; judgment, but not feeling; 

 a« intention, but not a power, to be just 

 to his author. These woids were, long 

 since, so well set to music as a glee, 

 that we are left to wonder at Mr. 

 M'iluidic's prefoninj tiieir selection, 



amid such an abundance of other eli- 

 gible j)oe(ry which has not been so well 

 treated, ijy the glee, we are reminded 

 of the tuneful Sapjiho; by the song, of 

 .some very inferior vocalist. In a word, 

 the prescjit composer has only made us 

 more sensible, even than we were, of the 

 merit of his predecessor. 



" God Save the King," with Variations for 

 the Pianoforte; by Fredericic Kalk- 

 hrmncr. •2s. 6d. 



This inexhaustible theme has been 

 embraced by Mv. Kalkbrenner with 

 considerable success. Few have treated 

 the subject with more consistency, or 

 thrown over it more of the air of novelty, 

 than we find in these images. The va- 

 riations are eight in ntnnber, the last 

 but one of which is successfully given 

 in the minor ; and the whole, by mixing 

 a foreign stjie of comment with the 

 native simplicity of the fundamental 

 matter, not only assumes much of the 

 cfl'ect of original composition, but pro- 

 duces a result both piquant and striking. 



Mr. Jacob, organist of Surrey Chapel, 

 is preparing for the press a collectioii 

 of tunes, set to select portions of the 

 New Version of the Psalms of David, 

 adapted to the services of the united 

 church of England and Ireland ; to 

 which \iill be added. Chants for the 

 Te Dcum, Jubilate, and otlier parts of 

 the morning and evening service, with 

 the words at length. Though many 

 works of this nature are already before 

 the jiublic, we expect that Mr. Jacob's 

 publication will prove a valuable addi- 

 tion to libraries of sacred music. Some 

 of the finest old church melodies are 

 promised to the subscribers, interspersed 

 with new ones, composed purposely for 

 the undertaking, by tlie most eminent 

 masters; and au introductory symphony 

 will be added to each time. The me- 

 lodies will be set in two parts; but, by. 

 way of an appendix, the whole will be 

 harmonized for three or four voices; so 

 tliat not only private families, but 

 chapel and church choirs will be ac- 

 commodated. 



Cutivito Armmiico. 

 It will be gratit'jing to the lovers of 

 that most delightful species of vocal 

 harmony — Glees, to learn that this ex- 

 cellent work, first published in Liver- 

 pool, is now re-published in London, 

 by Chappell and Co. Bond-street, and 

 to be had also of the Editor, Mr. 

 Webbe, 33, Newman-street, This 

 work is universally admitted to rank 



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