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Accompaniment of a Recitative. 21. Six 
Thorough bals Lefions, with a Solo Part 
for a Violin. 22. Thorough-bafles, by 
fix celebrated authors. 
©¢ Ik Béndocani.” 4 Mufical Drama, performed 
at the Theatre Royal, Govent Garden, compofed 
by T. Attwood and F. Mesrhead. Ss. 
Goulding, Phipps, and D° Alimaie. 
We have perufed the mufic of this po- 
pular piece with much pleafure. Mr. Att- 
wood and Mr. Moorhead have clubbed 
their talents toavery goodaccount. The 
overture, fongs and choruffes poffefs in 
almoft every inftance the ftamp of genius, 
and reflect no inconfiderable credit on thete 
well-known compofers. ‘* Hail Soli- 
tude;”? fung by Mr. Hill; * Sweet Inno- 
cence,”* fung by Mifs Dixon; ‘¢ Thus 
when the Mariner,” fung by Mr. Town- 
fend ; and ** Though Turks, Chriftians, 
and. Jews’ the two former compofed by 
Mr. Attwood, and the two latter by Mr. 
Moorhead, are excellent fongs in their 
kind,- and will we truft, enfure the fale of 
the publication. ‘ 
Ne. XII. of Elegant Selefions, comprizing 
the msft favorite Compofitions of Haydn, Pleyel, 
Mozart, Paifiello, and otber cfecined Authors 
for the Piano-forte or Harp. 25. Rolfe. 
This periodical work, confifing of fona- 
tas, overtures, capricios, rondos, and airs, 
fele&ted from the works of the above great 
matters, has been fome time difcontinued, 
but will now, we underftand, be regularly 
purfued. In the prefent number, befide 
feveral pleafing little pieces, we find a fo- 
nata from Pleyel, and two airs and a can- 
zonet from Mozart. ‘The adaptation of 
the latter article, we are obliged to fay, is 
not the mof& happy: neither the meafure 
nor the fenfe of the words accord properly 
‘with the feveral ‘pafiages of the melody ; 
and in one place the fenfe is abfolutely 
“broken. We notice this not by way cf 
difparaging a work, the general merit of 
which is highly creditable-to the tafte of 
the felector, but that by guarding againft 
the ike improprieties in future this pub- 
lication may be rendered {till more deferv- 
of the public patronage which it has ex- 
perienced. 
No. LX. of Guida Harmonica, or, an Introduc- 
tion ig tbe General Knowledge of Mufic, Theo- 
retical and Pra&ical. In Two Parts. The 
Firf? Part confifting of Sonatas, Airs, and other 
Pizces for the Piano-forte, with the requifite 
Infirutiions for Fingering and Expreffion. The 
Second Part containing Effays on the feweral 
Branches of the Science, with Illuftrations, 
Rules and Exercijes, of a familiar Nature, an- 
nexed tocach. By F. Ralfe.qs.6d. Skillen. , 
Tn the firit part of the prefent num. 
w¥ 
Review of New Mufical Publications. 
find two weil-conitru&ted preluces in the 
key of E flat major, introductory to an 
engaging rondo, the fubjeé&t of which is 
taken from Arne’s celebrated fong of 
‘* Where the Bee fucks there lurk I,” 
fucceeded by a movement in 6-8 allegro, 
in which we difcover confiderable novelty 
and playfulnefs of fancy. The fecond 
part contains a fhort but well-digefted ef- 
fay on the preparation and refolution of 
difcords, with exercifes on the fufpenfion. 
of the third, the fifth, and the eighth, as 
alfo of the double fufpenfion of the third 
and eighth, and various other fufpenfions in 
the harmony of the dominant. ‘To thefe 
are added effays on tranfition and antici- 
pation, well calculated to furnifh the mind 
of the young ftudent with the firft and 
leading principles of harmony and modu- 
lation, 
4 ColieEtion of Scottifh Songs, in their moft fimple” 
and approved Form, with Introduétery and - 
Concluding Symphonies and Accompaniments, 
Sor the Piano-forte and Violin... By Pleyel and 
Kozeluch. The whole in Four Boks. Each 
Ios, 6d. Prefton. 
Thefe colle&tions are compiled with © 
tafte, and form a body of very fele& 
Scottith mufic. Of the poetry we are 
enabled to give the beft account: the old 
words. where they are good, are retained, 
but in the many inftances in which they 
are too coarle, infipid, or profaic, to be 
worthy of the airs to which they are fet, 
they are excluded, and their places fup- 
plied by the ingenious. and interefting 
fongs of Burns, about fifty of which, we 
are informed, were written purpofely for 
this work. To give the publication ad- 
ditional intereft with the Englifh amateur, 
Englifh words, perfectly adapted to the 
airs, are fubjoined to moft of the fongs. 
In this additional part of the poetry we 
find a confiderable number of the moft ad- 
mired fongs in the Englifh language, and 
many entirely new ones, written for the 
work by Dr. Walcott. . 
Nos. XIII. and XIV. of Apollo and Terpfichore, 
forming a Colleétion of Songs, Duets, Rondos, 
Airs, &c. from the moft celebrated Mafters 
Ios. 6d. Rolfe. 
The prefent number of this agreeable little 
colleétion contains the March inthe Sam- 
nites, by Mozart ; a ballad from the fame 
author ; a jonatina from Pleyel; an attrac- 
tive fittle rondo, an air, minuet, and rondo, 
from Mozart, a waltz by T. Cook, adance 
in Harlequin Amulet, an air from Ri- 
chard, a quick ftep from Schan, and feve- 
ral other pieces of almoft equal merit. ~ 
66 Lovey 
[Mareh's, 
_ber of this ufeful and ingenious work we 
