1823.} 
sides having metallic.or glass wicks, 
uccerding te any ef the present kuewn 
improved methods for consuming, as 
much as possible, the smoke ; and their 
improved lamps, when supplied with 
the compositions above described, may. 
be kept burning for a great length of 
New Mesic and the Praia. 
549 
time without any attention being paid 
to them, except to maintain the supply 
of combustible composition ; which they 
conceive will render the lamp peculi- 
rly valuable in many situations, par- 
ticularly for sea-lights on places fre- 
quently inaccessible.— Repertory. 
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NEW MUSIC AND THE DRAMA, 
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BMozart’s Celebrated Grand Symphony, 
adapied for the Piuno-Ferte, with 
Accompaniments for a Flute, Violin, 
and Violoncello, (ad libitum; ) by S. F. 
Rimbault. 6s. 
\HIS adaptation of Mozart’s truly- 
celebrated symphony may justly 
be ranked among the better descrip- 
tion of compositions readily modified 
from pre-existent productions: Tis 
present form is honburable to Mr. 
Rimbault’s well-known talents, in as 
much as it coastitutes an excellent 
piano-forte piece, and might, with no 
impropriety, be styled a piano-forte 
sonata,so perfectly isitadapted to keyed 
instruments. But the praise due to 
the skill Mr. R. has displayed in this 
newly-modelled sympheny is not limi- 
ied to his judicious disposition of the 
passages, with regard to their accom- 
modation to pianc-forte execution ; the 
science and ingenuity with which ke 
has arranged and incorporated the 
three-fold accomparvimenis have strong 
claims to our particular notice. In 
iheir separate construction he has 
evinced his knowledge of their powers 
and characters ; and, in their combina- 
tion, proved his judgment in that pro- 
vince of a composer's art which re- 
spects the harmonic result of a plura- 
lity of instruments. fn the various 
movements, which are not fewer than 
four, we find many striking and even 
splendid ideas, intermixed and relieved 
by soft and delicate touches, which, 
while they mark the genius of the 
great German composer, interest and 
delight the attentive auditor, and 
prove the taste of the modifier, botu in 
the choice he bas made, and the 
manner in which he has even heigh- 
tened the effect intended by the origi- 
nal author. 
“Yes, I have lov'd the Minstrel's 
Strain,” an Answer to Anacreonr 
Moore's “ Farewell to his Harp,” a 
Melody and Quartett, sung by Mrs. 
Ashe, at Bath, and Master Twrle, 
Mr. Goss, Mr. Vaughan, and Mr. J. 
B. Sale, at Mr. Goss’s Concerts. 
If, as a melody, we cannot speak in 
the highest terms of this composition, 
it at least claims our favourable ac- 
knowledgment as a body of ingenious 
and soundly-constructed harmony. The 
passages of the air sometimes include 
intervals that are somewhat strained, 
and, indeed, net perfectly vocal; but 
tie several parts of the quartett are 
put together with a skill that demon- 
strates the possession of much gemuine 
science. If, en the whole, this com- 
positicn would not sanction our pro- 
nownucing Mr. Major to be a great 
melodist, it would bear us out in say- 
ing, that he is a real master in the art 
of harmonic combination, and that he 
has given a lucid proof of his ingenuity 
in disposing of the matcrials he has 
employed. 
Constancy, a Canzonet, by George Vin- 
cent Duval, esq. 2s. 
This canzonet is, in fact, a ballad of 
three verses, the last of which is har- 
menized as a duett. We lind nothing 
in its melody to distinguish it from the 
general songs of the day, nor is the 
harmonization of the third verse 
marked by any extraordinary evi- 
dences of science or ingenuity. Its 
chicf deficiency as an air is, that it 
wants particularity or identity of cha- 
racter, without which, no creative 
power of the composer can ever be 
even suspected. Of the accompani- 
ment to this canzcnet, we can only say, 
that its chief feature is its monotony. 
The constant reiteration of three semi- 
quavers in the arpeggio style, preceded 
he a semi-quaver rest, carries with it 
an indication of great poverty of inven- 
tien; and, we beg to assure Mr. Duval, 
that, in the present instance, it is 
much more fatiguing than gratifying. 
A Greek. National Air, arranged as a 
Duett fer two Performers onthe same 
Piaw-Forte. 18. 
This airis first given in its single and 
simple state, and then harmonized as 
a piece for four bands. The melody in 
itself is of the most easy and unja- 
boured kind. Sixteen bars comprise 
the whole of it, and the ear is never 
curricd out of the original key. The 
two 
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