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REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLIGATIONS, 
A Guida Della Mufica Infirumentale, or the 
Rudiments of the Piano-forte and Harpf- 
chord, exemplified in a clear and concife manner 
avith Exercifes for ferming the hand. To which 
are fubjoined Eight Progreffive Leffons con- 
firucted on pleafing and familiar airs, and a 
Sonata for two performers. 6s. Smart. 
This work was evidently written with 
2. particular attention to the immediate 
improvement of the young ftudent, and 
does much credit to the didactic talents of 
the late ingenious author. The order 
with which the firft principles are laid 
down, renders every thing fo clear and 
explanatory, that the learner fees his way 
at a glanee, and proceeds without em- 
barraffment. The exercifes are well 
conttructed; the fingering judicioufly 
worked, and tecanical terms are explained 
as they occur, which appears to usa good 
method of inftilling their meaning into 
the mind of the pupil. The Duet, which 
confiits of three movements, is pleafingly 
imagined, and calculated to facilitate the 
improvement of the fing-r. 
Three Sonatas for the fiano-forte, with an ac- 
companiment for a violin ad libitum, compofed 
by D. Steibelt. 8s. 
‘Longman, Clementi, and Co. 
We have perufed thefe elegant and 
happily variegated fonatas with great 
pleafure. Many of the ideas are truly 
original, and the paflages, which in gene- 
ral are finely calculated for the exercife of . 
the finger, rife out of each other with the 
utmoft cafe and propriety. ‘Mr. Steibelt, 
in a prefatory page, informs the reader 
that ‘* wifhing to make more variety on 
«sche piano-forte, he finds it neceflary 
<6 to make ufe of the pedals, by which 
«s alone the tones can be united.””? But 
at the fame time we agree with him that 
<¢ it requires to ufe them with the utmoft 
6 care: without which, in paffing from 
<¢ one chord to another, difcord and con- 
«¢ fufion would inevitably refult..” To 
regulate tne ule of the pedals, the author 
employs three figns, the firft of which 
denotes the pedal that raifes the dampers, 
the fecond the piano pedal, and the third, . 
that the foot is to be taken off the pedal 
that was uled before. 
S¢ Lightly oer the Village Green.” A Mafonic 
Glee for three voices, compofed and inferibed to 
the R. W. DA. Officers and Brethren of the 
Somer fet Houfe Lodge, by Reginald Spofforth. 
The words by G. Dyer Bara as ode 
Longman, Clementi, and Co, 
The melody of this giee is, in general 
natural and pleafant : fome of the paflages 
are fo original, and fo weil adapted to 
the fubjeét of the words as to evince much 
jadgment-and command of imagination, 
while the juft combination of the parts, 
befpeaks more than a eommon portion of © 
{cience. The poetry, which forms one 
of the happieft efforts of Mr. Dyer’s 
Lyric Mufe, is beautifully fanciful, and 
after leading the reader 
“« Lightly o’er the village green, 
¢¢ Where blue-eyed fairies {port unfeen.” 
clofes witha reflection highly honourable 
to the Mafonic Society. 
Eight Ensglifo Canzonets for a fingle voice, 
qwith an accompaniment for the piano-forte 
harp, compofed by T. Effex. 7s. 6d. 
Broderip and Wilkinfon, 
We have frequently had occafion to 
fpeak of the merits of Mr. Effex as a com- 
pofer; but no former work of that gentle- 
man has aiforded us fo ample a fcope 
for commendation, as we find in the pre- 
fent. The melodies of thefe canzonets 
are, generally fpeaking, conceived with 
much fweetnefs and fimplicity; and dif- 
play an imagination which keeps pace 
with the judgment and fcience evinced in 
the accompaniments and bafs. ‘The fub- 
jeéts of the feveral pieces are agreeably 
diverfifed, and the expreflion given to the 
words is, in feveral inftances, peculiarly 
happy and appropriate. 
Apollonian Harmony, beimg a colleétion of fcaree 
and celebrated Glees, Catches, Madrigals, 
Canzonets, Rounds, and Canons, ancient and 
modern, with fome originals compsfed by Aldrich, 
Arne, Battifbill, Purcel, Boyce Brewer, 
Eccies, Green, Giardini, Hayes, Hook, and 
other eminent mafters. 38. 6d. Thompfon. 
The “ Apollonian Harmony”? com- 
prifes fix neat pocket volumes, the con- 
tents of which are various, and well 
feletted. The lovers of glee-mufic will 
find in them a rich repaft. Convivial 
harmony, combined with delicacy of 
fentiment and expreflion, cannot but com- 
mand general notice, and procure that 
patronage to which every feleStion, fe 
judicioufly and fo {crupuloufly formed, 
muft be allowed to merit. 
<6 Nanny of the Teuced”’ written by Mr. Ander- 
fon, rhe, mufic compofed by 'T. Thompfon, 
Organifi, Newcafile upon Tyne. ts. Goulding, 
Mr. Thompfon has made a pleafing, eafy 
little air of ¢* Nanny of the Tweed.”? The 
bais isnot always the beft that might have 
been chofen, ner do the fymphonies car-_ 
tribute to the merit of the fong ; yet the 
general effect is fomewhat bevend the 
common efforts of this kind. . 
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