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REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. 
{To our Mufical readers, we haye the pleafure to announce a new arrangement for critiques and 
obfervations on the harmonic art; and to inform them, that in future all new compofitions 
of importance, fuficient for our notice, will be treated of, and.fuch remarks given on their fe- 
veral merits and defects, as will enable the practitioner to parchafe with judgment, and furniih 
our country fubfcribers with the means of choofing for themfelves, though diftant from the 
fcene of publication. We were not without the with to imereafe the value of our Magazine, at 
its commencement, with materials of this kind; but we ‘experienced fome difficulty in 
diftoverinz a correfpondent wholly qualified to do juttice to fuch a department; 
it on the liberal and {cientific plan on which we had conceived it. 
PRANNIAN Day, as performed with univerfal 
~ applaufe at the Theatre-Royal Haymarket. 
The Mufic by S. Arno/d, Muf. D. Organift and 
Compofer to his Majefty. 8s. Longman and Co. 
Bannian Dayis an opera, which, through- 
out, is ftrongly featured with the ftyle of 
tis mgenious compofer, and fcarcely in 
any ref{peét inferior to his bef produc- 
tions. ‘The overture, which confifts of 
two movements, is fpirited, pleafing, and 
familiar, and, as here adapted for the 
Piano-forte, forms an excellent exercife 
for that inftrument. ‘“ Hope ftill greets 
me,’ fung by Mifs Leak, 1s a beautiful 
melody, partaking of the rozdo in its con- 
ftruction ; and “In my Club-Room fo 
great,” fung by Mr. Fawcett, “is replete 
with charaéteriftic humour. With ‘¢ Polly 
afks, can you deny,” fung by Mrs. Bland, 
Wwe are particularly pleafed. An affect- 
ing tendernefs pervades the whole air, 
which is happily heightened by the 
change of the time at the line, © It is 
Not to be preudly deckt.’? ** O liften 
then, and filent feel,’? fung by Mifs 
Leak. is.an aif of the fame defcription ; 
and brings us to the finale, the burden 
er theme of which is fo novel and exhi- 
Jarating, as to produce. a happy clofe to 
tnis very agrecable opera. ; 
The Piano-Forte Magazine, or Complete and 
Elegant Library of Ancient and Modern Matic, 
with elegant Piano-Fortes, gratis. Harrifon and 
Co. Paternofter row; each number, 2s 6d. 
Of all the numerous plans of thefe 
popular and multifarious publifhers, we 
do not recolleét any that have been fo 
firiking in their novelty, and fo compre- 
henfive in their view and utility, -as that 
ef their prefent undertaking. . This 
work, which comes out in weekly num- 
hers, fix of which have already made 
made their: appearance, is to comprize 
inftrumental, fele€ted from the great 
mafters of all ages and nations, befides, 
fuch “(new gnd capital produétions. as 
may yet appear.” We:are alfo told in 
the prepofals, that Mefirs. Harrifon and 
“* choice pofthu- 
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five thoufand pages of mufic, vocal and - 
to execute 
mous works of the late Dr. Arne, and 
other firft-rate. mafters, which they have 
already purchafed.” But the circum- 
ftance to be added to thefe, and which 
gives an abfolute novelty of charaéfer, as 
well as of #z#/e to the work, is, that not- 
withftanding the price of the numbers is 
almoft fitty fer cent. under the common 
charge for the fame quantity of mufic, the 
publiihers engage to furnith every fub- 
feriber with an “ elegant and brilliant- 
toned piano-forte, in all refpeéts equal 
to their /pecimen inflrument, which is far 
fuperior to many inftruments fold at 
twenty-five guineas.” * : 
The fix numbers already out, are fo 
judicioufly: felefted, and fo correctly 
printed, ‘that the only pofiible difference 
of ofinion in the public mind refpeéiing 
them, feems'tous to be, that fome prace 
titioners who have -been ufed to the 
large-fized paper, ‘may think the pages 
tcoimall, while others may conceive thent 
neater, and more convenient for pers 
formance, - ‘> es 
Three Sonatas for the Piano Forte or Harp- 
fichord, with an Acrompaniment:to the firt fdr 
a Violoncello Obligato ;.to the fecond-ior a Gers 
man- flute, and to the third-fora Violin, com- 
poled by George Surr. 7s. 6d. Op. 1. Culliford, 
Mr. Surr, who gives the prefent work 
as his harmonic debut, has, confidered as 
a young compofer, preduced in it traits of 
genius and of future fetentific excellences 
Dawning talents, as we ‘conceive, carry 
with them indifputable claims to critic= 
favour, and wherever we difcover them, 
we thall uniformly hold out:-a -foftering 
hand. ! wd keh SERS : 
‘The firft fonata, which opens with 
a movement in common time, AWegro- com: 
Spirito, is conceived with boldnefs and 
fpirit throughout that firft movement $ 
the fecond inj, difplays confiderable tafte 
and feeling; and the third, a rendo in 2, 
is pleafing in its fubje&i, and conducted 
with much addrefs.. <The accompani- 
ment for the violoncello,:appears to be 
written with a thorough knowledge. of 
the inftrument, and is cmployed in many 
ate ps ) Party 
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