1826.] 



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 NEW MUSIC. 



" Blue lionnt'ts are Over (fie Border," sutuj 

 by Mr. Draltam, nrranged and partly com- 

 posed by A. Lee. 2s. WUlis and Co. 

 " Woman" a favourile song sung by Mr. 

 J3r<i/iam, conijiused by Allen Lee. 2s. Willis 

 and Co. Our prince of song has regularly 

 of late years introduceil some simple 

 Scottish balled every season ; such i»s 

 " Scots wha hae," " Kilvin Grove," &c. 

 which have attained great poj)ularity from 

 their being intelligible to the understiindings, 

 and j)ractical)le to the vocal abilities of 

 almost every hearer. Of this class are the 

 two songs before us ; the first, an old 

 border ditty, has made a decided hit. Mr. 

 Lee's alterations, though trifling, are highly 

 judicious, and tlie air is of that animated 

 cast in which Mr. IJraham always shines 

 pre-eminent. From the title of the second 

 ballad, Mr. L. appears to claim it as an 

 original composition, which we caimot by 

 any means admit. As an adaptation, how- 

 ever, we are ready to give ever)' credit to it ; 

 the alterations and embellishments are 

 tasteful and appropriate. As works of 

 science they have of course no pretensions ; 

 but as we previously obser\'ed, their exces- 

 sive simplicity will render them highly 

 popular. 



" 77(6 Gondola Glides," Ballad, composed 

 hyB. G.H. Gibsone. U.&d. Willis andCo. 

 We have generally, in noticing this gentle- 

 man's compositions, had to complain of his 

 propensity for chromatics. We are happy 

 to see he had taken our hint : he has dis- 

 covered at last that fugue points and scien- 

 tific modulations are not compatible with 

 English songs, at least in the present day. 

 No one is more willing than ourselves to 

 allow the skill in orchestral arrangement he 

 has manifested in his bass song, " Child of 

 the Sun ;" but what amateur will attempt 

 it, or wliat band except the pliilharmonic 

 venture on the accompaniment. " The 

 Gondola," is a simple, swimming, melotly, 

 highly appropriate to the amatory character 

 of the poetry. The aceompaiiiments are 

 chaste and pleasing. The introductory 

 symphony is dramatic, expressing (as we 

 should imagine) the approach of music on 

 • the water. There is a true, though hack- 

 neyed proverb respecting tlie building of 

 Rome which we might apply without ill- 

 nature. Mr Gibsone cannot at once di- 

 vest himself of his favourite hobby; the 

 giving the subject in the last symphony, 

 first syncopated in the upper part, and then 

 in the middle, is we allow ingenious ; but 

 five young ladies out of six will omit it, and 

 the sixtli most probably spoil it. 



" The Lord's Prayer,", as .sung by Mr. 

 Braham ul llie Oratorios, composed by W/u. 

 Kitchener, M.D. \s. (id. irillis anul Co. — 

 This is evidently intended in some respects 



as an imitation of " Lntlier's Hymn," but 

 wants the majestic simphcity of the original. 

 The music is correct, and the adaptation of 

 the words well managed as far as the quan- 

 tities are concerned, but the style is common 

 place, and unworthy the sublimity of the 

 subject. 'Die learned Doctor is determined 

 to shew us in the last page that lie can write 

 scores as well as receipts — ^ve had no idea 

 his musical science extended so far. 



" She Smiled and I could not hut Love-' ' 

 Ballad .tuny by Sapio, composed by G. F. 

 atansbury. 2s. WillLi and Co — This song 

 is ostensibly composed in imitation of tlie 

 favourite Spanish air Isabel, and is perhaps 

 as successful a parody, if it may so be 

 culled, as we have ever heard ; the time and 

 style of accompaniment are of course the 

 same as the original melody. The air is 

 perhaps not quite so nationally character- 

 istic, but affords a greater variety and more 

 scope to the singer. We may highly re- 

 coinmeiid it. 



HAXO-rORTi:. 



Grand Military Diccrtimcnto, dedicated to 

 t/ic Dulie of York ; composed by Ferd. liies. 

 Gd. Willis and Co. This veiy brilliant and 

 beautiful lesson is founded on tlie well- 

 known air of the Duke of York's Marcli. 

 The composer had always a particularly 

 happy manner of treating and working up 

 a subject, and we recollect no instiincc in 

 which he has been more felicitous than the 

 present. The introduction is of a military 

 character, and like the principal movement 

 in Tempo di 3Iarcia, about the bottom 

 of the second page the leading plirase of 

 the march is introduced and repeated 

 through various modulations, the imitations 

 become closer and closer, till the complete 

 grand march bursts upon us. The sudden 

 transition fi-om the key of G to that of B 

 flat, page eight, tliough not of uncommon 

 occurrence, is so managed as to produce a 

 novel and striking effect ; the trio is intro- 

 duced in the next page, but is not long 

 dwelt upon, and the first two bars of tlie 

 theme worked up and interspersed with 

 some brilUant passages for the right hand 

 constitutes the remainder of the movement. 

 This is followed by a brilUant Koiulo alia 

 Tedesca ; 3-8 in the key of D major, a 

 passage of three quavers in a bar, in a 

 simple staccato style is extremely elegant 

 and effective. Towards the conclusion of 

 the Rondo, the original theme is again in- 

 troduced, and the whole lesson is womid 

 up by a dozen bars of the march by way of 

 coda. 



Brilliant Hondo on the favourite Chorus 

 Sel Silnzio in the Croriato, composed by 

 Francis Hiinten. .3.9. 6f/. Willis and Cp. 

 — We are not at present familiar with the 

 name of this composer ; but to judge by 



