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as to allow of {pare mafis being taken a- 
board ; the utility of this muft be obvious ; 
but no one, before this gentleman, has 5 
tempted to put it in practice. 
Engravings on wooden blecks, which 
were at one timealmoft the only eraaments 
for books, have been revived by the Be- 
wicks of Newcaftle. One of them is dead, 
but the art is not dead; a fon of Beton 
Anderfon, who we believe was their 
pupil, and feveral other young mei have 
carried the art very high, and fome of 
their vignettes have | a fpirit brillianey, 
‘ and force, which rivats he firft and fines 
productions on copper. For books this 
ityle of engraving is particularly conveni- - 
2 
ent, as the print may be impreft at the 
fame time with the type; and every ope 
who has ever had any connection with 
prints ftamped on ithe fame page with 
letter prefs, muft have felt the trouble and 
Review of New. Mufical Publications. 
at 
[ Sept. 
inconvenience which attends the page paf- 
fing through fo many hands. 
We are happy to learn that Mr. Sharp 
is now engaged in finithing the print frona 
Copley’s Siege of Gibr altar. Middiman 
is engraving a large print, the ize of The 
Shepherds’ Amujements, from a very ca- 
pital picture by Salvator Rofa. 
Every lover of the arts muft regret the 
death of the well known feulptor John 
Bacon, Eiq. R. A. a man diftinguifbed 
from all his predecefiors of the Enelith 
{chool, in having rifen to fe high a pitch 
of exccllence, without being regularly edu- 
cated to the protefficn. = 
Some of his mott capital productions 
fhall be noticed in next month’s Re- 
trofpect. . 

months Retrofpez, p-58!5 
ol. rE cad 1500). 
Erratum.—In the loft 
line 6,——for 3¢ 

ical Mufical Compo itiony ac- 
Nature of that Science and the 
he gre eateft mufical Authors, by 
ic Chriftopher Kollmann, 
poms fi bis Majopy s German Chapel at 
St. fames’s. 11. 1s. Dai ale. 
‘In our laf remarks on this learned and 
ingenious work, we preceeded to the end 
of the feventh chapter of the fecond vo- 
Wg The eighth chapter treats: rca 
nons; in which the fimple canon, the 
doable canon, the triple and Braco ca- 
non, as well as the finite and inSnite ca- 
non, are clearly defcribed. In the ninth 
chapter, Mr. Kollmann proceeds to ex- 
-plain what is meant by ‘ the confruion 
and refolutic zx of canons.” He then treats 
of canons im eqit tal motion, and gives the 
rules for thole in rewer/e, retrograde, and 
revere retrograde motion; illuftrating his 
obfervations by examples from Emanvel 
Bach, Dr. Sse Leah Patch, Poin 
berger, Marpurs, Handel, and other emi- 
nent compolers. apter tenth confifts 
of remarks on el Mufic. Speaking 
of this fpecies of compcfition, he very 
juftly calis it ‘* the principa al branch of 
mufical writine,’’ and offers as his reafon, 
that <* the ais give a more dittinG 
meaning to the founds to which they are 
fet, than can be derived from them with- 
out verbal affiftance, and that confeque ent- 
ly vocal ‘mufic will be more interesting 
than shat which is merely infrumental.’ 
In this part of his treatife, we find many 
obfervations judicioufly intreduced, and 
which cannot but be highly afeful to mof 
vocal compofers, His remarks on rec- 
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NEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUB LICAFIONS. 
ialive are accurate; and the rules he lays 
down, as the principal guides in the con- 
ftrattion of airs, are worthy the nofice of 
every mufician. Having noticed thofe 
particulars moft confequential to the vocab 
sao age he proceeds, in chapter eleventh, 
the confideration of inftrumental mnfic ; 
and in the different fetions of the chapter. 
treats of the ‘‘ fringed how inftruments, 
wind inftruments, the combination of dif- 
ferent inftruments, the different kinds of 
in framentel mufic—that for an orcheftra, 
fer a military band, and for the organ.’” 
In the twelfth and iat chapter, Mr. ‘Koll- 
mann, confiders the various ftyles of compo- 
fition ; and in his remarks on zasional ityle 
is extremely correct and interefting. His 
objervation that Italy, Germany and 
France have each a ftyle of their own ; 
while England feems to form a compofite 
fiyle, a caft of melody borrowed from ber 
mufical’neighbours, is in a great meature 
juit: and his notice of the diftin&t charae- 
ter of the Scotch airs, is equally fo 5 
though we wonder he has not theught 
proper to account for that diffinétion, 
which he might have done on {cientific 
principles. We have now followed the 
affiduous author through his arduous and 
elaborate publication, and are happy to 
be able to. recommend it to,the public as 
one of the beft treatifes on the fcience 
which has appeared in this, or, perhaps, 
any other country, fer a great number of 
years ; and we hope that*Mr. Kollmann 
will derive that applaufe asd emolument 
due to fo ingenious and laborious an un- 
dertaking, 
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