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an excellent earnest of the ability and 
judgment with which the whole will be 
conduéted, will be voluminous and ex- 
penfive; but will, we doubt not, highly 
gratify the lovers of Handel’s inutic, and 
well :eward the liberal and enterprizing 
fpirit of the publifhers. 
Three 2 Duets for Two Violonceltes. Me Do led 
and dedicated to Frederic Perkins, Esq. by 
Thomas Powell. 8s. 
Mr. Powell has written thefe ducts 
with talte and {cience; the ideas are me- 
lodious, and the combinations judicious, 
ire gg several movements are contralt- 
éd with a propriety that greatly heightens 
the eect of each, The rondos with 
which the pieces conclude are novel and 
pleating in their fubjects, aud evince a 
lively aud fertile fancy. 
&¢ Britons, to 
Compofed by FF. P Qs. 6d. 
Mr. Solomon has thrown into the mufic 
of this whee no fimall pee of that ani- 
mation and fire fo ree ite to the just ex- 
preilion of the words he has cha ea A 
unitorm ipint aud boldnefs pervade the 
fiyle of the couipolition, while the dispo- 
fition of the parts claims the commenda- 
tion of every found harmonitt. 
. Sclomen. 
The much-admired Overture to Adrian and Or- 
vila, as performed at the Thatre Royal, Co~ 
went Garden. Compofed and dedicated to 
Thomas Atwood, Efg: by W. Ruffell. Qs. 
- Vhis overture does credit to Mr. Rut 
fell’s talte and ingenuity. The pafiages, 
though not remarkably original, are pleas- 
ingly conceived, and weil conneéteds and 
the effeét of the whole is both drainatic 
aud ftriking. 
“€ Try me, O God,” an Anthem for four Voices. 
 Compofed and refpefully dedicated to C F. 
Baumgarten, Ejg. by bis Pup:l Ff. H. Lef- 
fier. 1s. 6d. 
This anthem, the words of which are 
taken from the 139th pfalin, is comprized 
in One movement, and is accompanied 
with a Peete part. After looking 
minutely into the fcore, we find ourfelves 
auth ae to day cher the general con- 
{tinction is good, anc d thatthe bafs, i in fome 
places fufceptible of improvement, is yet 
for the moft part, engi with judgment, 
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and calculated to. produce the effe& in- 
tended. 
The Moosligh Sonnet. The Words from Mrs. 
Radcliff ’s s Romance of the Foreft, as it was 
Jung at the King’s The«tre, Haymarket, and 
at the Mufic Room, Oxford. The Mufic com- 
pofed and. arranged, with an Accompaniment 
for the Piano-forte, by T..Effex. Bac. Muf. 
Oxo nein s 
This fonnet is comprized in three move- 
meats judic cloaily varying with the fenfe 
of the words 5 aud by no means destitute 
either of melody or exprettion. The ac- 
companiment 1s bufy and ingenious, and 
the biG in gereral well chofen. 
“© Let Sorrow feck her native Night,” a favo- 
worite Duet for two is ices. The Words by 
Peter Pindar, Efq. Compofed and dedicated 
to his Friend, Ar, Edna Phelps, by Sir 
epee Siecenion, Muf. Doc.) 1s. 6d, 
The tafteand » graceful eafe of this duet 
pleafe us exceedingly. The melody is 
felici gon imagined, ae the paris nlay’ 
into each other gr an effect that much 
delight every cultivated cars Dr. Wolcott 
has been so happy in his poetry as to 
make it difficult for us to fay which of the 
two mutes has been moft indebted to the 
other. 
Dr. Wattss Divine and Moral Songs. © Com= 
pofed and dedicated to Mafter Hora Goodbe- 
bere, by Thomas Forbes Walmifiey. 6s. 
The eafe and fimplicity of thefe little 
melodies are well adapts -d to the ftyle of 
the poetry. Moft of the patfages are na- 
tural and attraétive, and fone of them 
not without a degree of fweetnefs. An 
accompaniment for the piano-forte is ad- 
ded to the work, which, though it con- 
fifis of little more. than a renetition of the 
notes of the airs, will be found very ufe- 
ful to the juvenile practitioner. 
Si. Sonatinos for the Piano-forte. Compofed and 
dedicated to the Right Hon. Lady Louifa 
ther ley, by D. Bruguier. 5s. Gd. 
With the eafy aud unaffected flyle of 
thefe ttle pieces we are machi pleafure 
An agreeable flowing cait of melody, 
every where well difpofed for the juve- 
nile hand, and merce for its improve- 
ment, forms one cf the chief characterif= 
tics of the work, and will ftrongly recom- 
mend it to the attention of piano-forte 
practitioners, 
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