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movement which is in wivace, is ori 
ginal, and fucceeded by the popular airs 
«© When Phoebus the tops of the hills 
does adorn ;’” The echoing” horn calls 
the fportfmen abroad ;” ‘Hark! the 
hollow woods refounding;” ‘ What 
fhall he have that killed the deer;”’ 
“< How fweet in the woodlands ;”’ 
“Bright Phoebus has mounted the 
Chariot of Day’’,.and “ Bright Chan- 
ticleer proclaims the dawn.” ‘Thefe are 
fo arranged ‘as to do much credit to the 
jadgment of the compiler, and together 
with the original matter which he has 
mtroduced, form-an excellent and pleaf- 
ing exercife for the piano-ferte. 
. Three Concertante Duetts for Two Clario- 
nets, compofed and dedicated to Thomas Fitz- 
gerald, efg. by. H. T. Erbaci, 4s. Riley. 
In mufical compofition, it is a firft-rate 
excellence to accommodate the paflages 
to the particular inftrument or caf of 
yoice for which the ‘piece is intended. 
This merit is confpicuous in the prefent 
work, and difplays great knowledge of 
the clarionet and its powers of execution. 
Each of thefe duets confifts of two 
movements highly’pleafing in themfelves, 
and fo conftrucied as happily to contrait 
each other. 
The laft Compofition of the celebrated Mo- 
zart (2 Sonata in C. Minor) the Accompani- 
ents of which were left unfinifhed, but have 
been completed by Pleyel, 4s. Corri & Dufiek. 
_ We find in this pofthumous work of 
Mozart alithat profundity of fcieace and 
ingenuity of modulation which have ever 
diftinguifhed his productions. Some paf- 
. fages, we muf confefs, are fo chromatic 
as to be fomewhat crabbed in their effe&, 
and require a learned ear to produce the 
intended impreiiion, but thefe are coun- 
ter-balanced by many beauties of a very 
ftriking kind; and the toui enfeméble, while 
it furnifhes an excellent exercife for the 
piano-forte, is grand and attractive. 
Six French Romances, and One Italian Ari- 
etta, for the Harpfichord or Piano-Forte, with 
an Accompaniment for the Violin to the Italian 
Arietta, compofed by Rothe Nugent, and dedi- 
cated to the Ducheis of York, 7s- 6d. printed 
forthe Author, and to be had at all the Mufic 
Shops. 
The term Romance, as ufed by foreign 
muficians, is not fo familiar with us as to 
be univerfaily underfiood ; we therefore 
obferve, that in France and Italy it im- 
plies a Song, the words of which run 
into feveral verfes, comprizing fomewhat 
of a fcene or plot, and anfwers pretty 
Review of New Mufice 
-of North Britain. 
‘[April, 
nearly to the Old Englift Ballads. The 
prefent Airs are written upon that plan, 
and are extremely good in their kind. 
The melodies, for the moft part, though 
not remarkably novel, are {mooth, eafy, 
and natural, and the accompaniments 
calculated to add much to the general 
effect. The Italian Arietta is elegantly 
conceived, and. conveys the fentiment of 
the words with great force and beauty. 
The paflage with which it opens is moft 
happily appropriated to the-words “¢ Ad- 
io, addio campi beati’’, and befpeaks at 
once the admiration of the hearer. 
New Scotch Mufic, confiftins of Slow Airs, 
Strathipeys, Quick Reels, Country Dances, and 
a Medley, on a new plan, with a bafs for a 
Violoncello or Harpfichord, compofed and dedi- 
cated to the Prince of Wales, by George Jen- 
kins, tos. 6d, 
To the admirers of Scotch mnfic this 
work will be highly acceptable. It con- 
fifts of more than fixty folio pages, and 
preferves throughout that national caft of 
melody for which we liften in the mufic 
The compofitions are 
fo numerous that we are precluded from 
{peaking of them feparately, otherwile a 
great portion of them weuld claim our 
higheft praife.  Jenkins’s Compliment 
to Haydn,” ‘“* Haydn's Strathfpey,” and 
«« The Prince of Wales's Medley,” we 
feel ourfelves obliged to notice partica- 
larly, as poffefiing the Scotch character 
in a fingular degree, and exhibiting 2 
firength and fweetnefs of fancy rarely 
difcoverable in New Scotch Mufic. 
Sonata, with the favourite March of Louis 
the XVIth, late King of France, for the Pianc- 
Forte, with an Accompaniment for a Violia 
(ad libitum). Compofed, and dedicated to Miis 
Maria Hardman, by T. Haigh. 2s. 6d. Prefoa. 
The firt and fecond movements of 
this Sonata are compoied ina very ele- 
gant and finifhed fiyle. The piece is in 
E flat, major, and opens with a fhort 
Adagio in 2, the beauty of which irre- 
fifiibly engages the cuitivated ear, and 
befpeaks an expectation which is per- 
feétly gratified by the fecond movement, 
an Allegro Moderato, in 4. But we can- 
not fpeak in fuch terms of -praife of the 
March, or laft movement. It wants the 
character of what it profeffes to be: 
many of the pafflages are better fuited to 
any fpecies of compofition than to a 
March; andthe effeét of the whole is fo 
dry and unmartial as to do little credit to 
the mufical tafte of Louis the XVIth, 
whofe favourite the title-page announces 
it to have been. 
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