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REVIEW OF THE NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. 
PHE Monthly Mufical Fournal, confifting of 
~ Original Britifb, and New Foreign Mujicy 
Vocal and Infirumental, conducted by Dr. 
Bufby. (No. I. Price 6s.) Phillips. 
The firk number of this ftriking and 
already popular work, the advantageous 
and entirely original plan of which ex~- 
cited fo much curiofity previous to its ap- 
pearance, was publifhed on Saturday the 
gift of January lat, and purchafed with 
an avidity commenfurate with the rarity 
and. excellence of the announced contents. 
It is the plan of Dr. Busby’s novel and 
fpirited undertaking to form a felect pe- 
riodical affemblage of foreign and native 
harmony, at once including the occafional 
contributions of our moft eminent com- 
pofers, and the moft ftriking and favour- 
rite productions, vocal and inftrumental, 
of the great living matters of Italy, 
Germany, and France, deduced from 
their original fcores, and arranged for the 
voice and piano-forte. For the execution 
of this plan to its full extent, not only the 
talents of the firft Englifh poets and com- 
pofers have been engaged, but corre- 
{pondencies, we underitand, are eftablifhed 
on the continent for the immediate im- 
portation of all the beft and moft admired 
foreign mufic; which the Britith public 
will now have an opportunity of poffefling 
in the very moment of its novelty and po- 
pularity. 
Some fach feitled channel of regular 
communication with the foreign nurferies 
and depofitaries of the harmonic {cience 
was certainly a defideratum with Englifh 
mafters and amateurs, and we congratu- 
Jate the Doétor upon the happinets and 
utility of his plan, which, while it ac- 
knowledges and encourages the merit of 
our own countrymen, gives usa bird’s-eye 
view of what is doing abroad, and brings 
to a focus the rays of European genius. 
In the prefent number of this work we 
find no lefs than nine articles, viz. The 
Overture to  L’AUTEUR DANS SON 
MENaGE,’’ an operacompofed by Brunni, 
and now performing with univerfal ap- 
plaufe at Paris: A Song from the ‘new 
French opera of ARioDANT, compofed. 
by Méhul, member of the National In- 
ftitute, and of the Confervatory of Mufic 
at Paris: Abeautiful new Italian Air by 
Pozzi, with a tranilation of the original 
words from the pen of Dr. Walcot: 
‘* Tae Persian Stave,” compoled by 
Delayrac; The favourite Air in Haydn's 
Oratorio of CREATION, adapted by 
the conductor: A Glee for three voices, 
compofed by Dr. Wolcott : A Duett 
compofed by Dr. Arnold, and two Songs 
compofed by Dr. Busby. Our mufical 
readers will naturally be anxious to know 
the procedure of this valuable and inter- 
efting work, we therefore pledge ourfelves 
to give it our conftant notice, and to point 
out from month to month its moft promi- 
nent attractions, as well as its defects, 
fhould we obferve any. i 
Al Praftical Guide to Thorough Bas, written bp 
A, F.C. Kollmann, Orgamft of bis Majefty’s 
German Chapel of St. Fames’s. 10s. 
Longman and Clementi. 
This work, the utility of which will be 
obvious to every mufical reader, is con- 
duéted in that methodical and fyftematic 
plan for which all Mr. Kollmann’s di- 
daétic publications are diftinguifhed. 
We have perufed every page of the 
«¢ Practical Guide,” and agree with the 
fedulous and ingenious author, that it 
< differs in two particulars from every 
other treatife on thorough bafs hi:herto 
publifhed in this country, viz. in the fijfene 
of harmony on which its doétrines de= 
pend ; and in the general utility tor which 
it is calculated.” 
We approve with him of Pimberger’s 
fyfiem, reducing all regular harmony to 
two fundamental chords and their five in- 
verfions, or to fewen effential chords, fron 
which it derives all other chords, accord- 
ing to the fimple and natural rules of fuf- 
penfions, anticipations, and tranfient notes. 
Of the copious range of this well-digat 
ted and luminous tract the reader will be 
enabled to judge by the following heads 
of the chapters. Chap. 1. Of the Scale, 
2. OF Intervals. 3. Of Chords in gene- 
ral. 4. Of the Triad or Common Chord, 
5. Of the two Inverfions of the. Triad. 
6. Of the Chord of the Seventh. 7. Of 
the three Inverfions of the Chord of that 
Chord. 8. Of Accidental Chords. 9. Of 
other Particulars. 1c. Of the Accompa- 
niment of Recitative. 13. Rules for 
figuring a Bafs according to the upper 
parts. 12. Rules according to which the 
different fignatures of other Authors can 
be underftood. 13. Of Rameau’s Chords 
by Suppofition. 14. Practice of the Triad 
and its Inverfions. 15. Chord of the 
Seventh and.its Inverfions. 18. Tran- 
ficnt Chords, 19. Harpeggios. 20. The 
Accoma 
