New Music and Drama. 



1821.1 



The Admired Air of " Fro Tanti Angos- 

 cia Palpitii." Cotnposed by Carafa- 

 Arranged as a Dvettfor the Harp and 

 Piano Forte, by J. Michael Weippert. 

 4s. 



This composition, comprising four 

 movements, is happily diversified, and 

 highly interesting. The two parts are 

 interwoven, and relieved by each other, 

 in a manner that manifests much skill 

 and contrivance. The most striking pas- 

 sages of the above celebrated air are so 

 judiciously divided between, and echoed 

 by, the two instruments for which it is 

 here arranged, as to display to great 

 advantage, Mr. Weippert's abilities for 

 this kind of task. For ourselves, we 

 are free to confess that we do not so 

 much admire the mixture Mr. W. has 

 chosen, as we do the style in which he 

 has acquitted himself as an instru- 

 mental harmonist. The harp, as a 

 STRINGED instrument, is best accom- 

 panied by one that is inflatable. When 

 both instruments are stringed, or of tlie 

 wind species, the parts are (oo much 

 lost iu each other ; and the absence of 

 ^distinction of tone reduces (he effect 

 it4> that of one instrument harmouically 

 j^mployed, as the piano-forte or organ. 

 ■ rlPAurore ; a IValtz, Composed by L. C, 

 Nielson. \s. 6d. 



Though we do not discover iu this 

 publication any remarkable trait of 

 liveliness, or originality of imagination, 

 the ideas are in general so connected and 

 pleasing, and the effect of the whole 

 is so good, as to impress us with a 

 favourable opinion of Mr. Nielson's 

 talents, as a composer of instrumental 

 trifles. The introductory movement, 

 an andante of two crotchets in a bar, 

 is conceived with ease and freedom, 

 and the waltz is one of those mediocre, 

 but agreeable pieces, which eveiy day 

 produces, and wliich are every day 

 welcomed by the lovers of light piano- 

 forte exercises. 



*' To weep and pray for him I lore,''' (the 

 words from " Tales of my Landlord." J 

 Composed by F. J. Klose. 1*. 6rf. 

 This little production is a ballad of 

 two verses. The jmssages are agreeably 

 turned, and the expression is by no 

 means unappropriafe. The modulation 

 of the lines, "• To weep and pray for 

 him I love," and " May wound the 

 heart of him I love" is ingenious and 

 wcll-judge«l ; and the general senti- 

 ment of the words has been success- 

 fully consulted. The accompaniment 

 is of the simplest descripticm, but not 

 nneffective; anil the bass, (hougli far 

 from being distinguishctl by its science, 



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or artificiality, is not ignorantly chosen. 

 Speaking, therefore, in general terms, 

 we should say that Mr. Klose's ballad 

 is a production better calculated to pro- 

 mote, than to diminish, the credit his 

 former compositions have obtained for 

 him. 



The New Year's Gift, a Rondo for Juve- 

 nile Performers on the Piano Forte, 

 Composed and Inscribed to Miss Seton, 

 by E. Frost. Is. 



The subject of this rondo is novel 

 and attractive, and the digressive mat- 

 ter is analogous, and spiritedly ima- 

 gined. The first twenty-four bars may, 

 as the author himself has justly ob- 

 served, be used as a country dance. 

 The composition is evidently meant to 

 be no more than a musical ^ew d'' esprit ; 

 and viewed in that light, has consider- 

 able claims to our commendation. 

 DKAMA. 

 CovENT Garden, May 28. Damon 

 and Pyt/uas, a tragedy from the j)en of 

 Mr. Banham (a gentleman of Dublin) 

 WHS successfully produced at this the- 

 atre. Tile classical aud well-known 

 story or rather incident, ou which the 

 j>iece was founded, wc»u!d have been 

 inadequate to the furnishing sufficient 

 matter for five acts, without the addi- 

 tion of other characters to (hose of the 

 two friends aud the tyrant. The author 

 therefore, at the suggestion, as we have 

 been told, of Mr. Shiel, whose general 

 alterations and improvements of the 

 manuscript have been avowed, has 

 given to Damon, a wife, a child, aud a 

 generous servant ; ajid to Pythias, a 

 bride, and a father. With these inte- 

 resting and expanding adjuncts, the 

 feelings natural to the principal event 

 were prolonged and sustained, aud the 

 pleasiny pain, for the excitement and 

 enjoyment of which we listeud to the 

 heroics of the tragic muse, was kept 

 alive from the rising to tlie dropping of 

 the curtain. Tlie production vvas well 

 received, and is certainly honourable 

 to the powers of Mr. Banham in this 

 species of writing : and while the high 

 and splendid exctllences of our old 

 masters are kept out of view, it will 

 preserve a respectable standing in the 

 critic'sestimuliou. This tragedy (chiefly 

 supported by Macready.) and the broad 

 farce of </(e Grand Tbtrr, (roprcseuled by 

 Jones, Emery, Blauchard, Jjiston, Mrs. 

 Davenport, and other distinguished 

 comic performers,) have been auspicious 

 to the treasury of this theatre, and 

 brought its managers to (he verge of 

 the close of, on the whole, a favourable 

 season. Drury 



