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REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS.

LA Guida Della Mufica Inftrumentale, or the Rudiments of the Piano-forte and Harpfichord, exemplified in a clear and concife manner, with Exercifes for forming the band. To which are fubjoined Eight Progreffive Leffons confructed on pleafing and familiar airs, and a Sonata for two performers. 6s. Smart. This work was evidently written with a 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 first principles are laid down, renders every thing to clear and explanatory, that the learner fees his way at a glance, and proceeds without embarraffment. The exercifes are well ⚫ constructed; the fingering judiciously worked, and technical terms are explained as they occur, which appears to us a good the mind of the pupil. The Duet, which method of inftilling their meaning into confifts of three movements, is pleafingly imagined, and calculated to facilitate the improvement of the finger.

Three Sonatas for the piano-forte, with an accompaniment for a violin ad libitum, compofed by D. Steibelt. 88.

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Longman, Clementi, and Co.

We have perufed these elegant and happily variegated fonatas with great pleafure. Many of the ideas are truly original, and the paffages, which in general are finely calculated for the exercise of the finger, rife out of each other with the utmost ease and propriety. Mr. Steibelt, in a prefatory page, informs the reader that "wishing to make more variety on "the piano-forte, he finds it neceffary "to make use of the pedals, by which "alone the tones can be united." But at the fame time we agree with him that "it requires to use them with the utmost "care: without which, in paffing from "one chord to another, difcord and con"fufion would inevitably refult." To regulate the ufe of the pedals, the author employs three figns, the firft of which denotes the pedal that raises the dampers, the fecond the piano pedal, and the third, that the foot is to be taken off the pedal that was used before.

"Iightly o'er the Village Green." A Mafonic Glee for three voices, compofed and infcribed to the R. W. M. Officers and Brethren of the Somerfet Houfe Lodge, by Reginald Spofforth. The words by G. Dyer. B. A Is. 6d.

Longman, Clementi, and Co. The melody of this glee is, in general natural and pleasant: fome of the paffages

are fo original, and fo well adapted to the fubje&t of the words as to evince much judgment and command of imagination, while the just combination of the parts, science. The poetry, which forms one befpeaks more than a common portion of 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 fport unseen. clofes with a reflection highly honourable Eight English Canzonets for a single voice, to the Masonic Society. with an accompaniment for the piano-forte barp, compofed by T. Effex. 78. 6d.

Broderip and Wilkinfon.

We have frequently had occafion to peak of the merits of Mr. Effex as a comfor commendation, as we find in the prepofer; but no former work of that gentleman has afforded us fo ample a scope fent. The melodies of these canzonets are, generally speaking, conceived with much sweetness and fimplicity; and dif play an imagination which keeps pace with the judgment and fcience evinced in the accompaniments and bafs. The fubjects of the feveral pieces are agreeably diverfified, and the expreffion given to the words is, in feveral instances, peculiarly happy and appropriate.

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Apollonian Harmony, being a collection of feares
and celebrated Glees, Catches, Madrigals,
Canzonets, Rounds, and Canons, ancient and
modern, with fome originals compofed by Aldrich,
Arne, Battifbill, Purcel, Boyce Brewer,
Eccles, Green, Giardini, Hayes, Hook, and
other eminent mafters. 3s. 6d. Thompson
The "
Apollonian Harmony com-
prifes fix neat pocket volumes, the con-
tents of which are various, and well
felected. The lovers of glee-music will
find in them a rich repaft. Convivial
harmony, combined with delicacy of
fentiment and expreffion, cannot but com-
mand general notice, and procure that
patronage to which every felection, fo
judiciously and fo fcrupulously formed,
must be allowed to merit,

Nanny of the Tweed" written by Mr. Ander fon, the mufic compofed by T. Thompson, Organift, Newcastle upon Tyne. Is. Goulding. Mr. Thompson has made a pleafing, eafy little air of "Nanny of the Tweed." The bafs is not always the best that might have been chofen, nor do the (ymphonies contribute to the merit of the fong; yet the general effect is fomewhat beyond the common efforts of this kind.

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"Rofa and Henry," a favourite Song, introduced by Mrs. Fordan, in the new Comedy of the Secret. Set to music by a lady of fashion. Longman, Clementi, and Co. The melody of "Rofa and Henry," though fomewhat irregular in its metre, and monotonous in the termination of its two first lines, is, on the whole, pleafingly and affectingly conceived. The lady of fashion, though not a lady of profound fcience, has given evidence of a fancy, which, if duly cultivated, might become both elegant and prolific.

The Mafical Prologue to the new comedy of Five Thoufand a Year. Written by T. Dibdin, Spoken and fung by Mr. Munden, at the Theatr; Royal Covent Garden. IS.

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Longman, Clementi, and Co. The melody felected as a vehicle for the fubject of thefe lines, is that of English Roast Beef" The humour being broad, the choice of this popular air is judicious, and bespeaks much judgment of effect in the compiler. Six original German Waltzes for the piano-forte, with an accompaniment for a triangle and lady: tamburino, dedicated to the Princess of Wales, by James Sanderfon. 55. Thompson. Mr. Sanderfon has tired his hand at this fashionable fpecies of compofition with confiderable fuccefs. Much fpirit and originality of fancy pervade the feveral pieces, and recommend them to the ear, while the paffages are in general fo turned, as to render the work improving to the finger.

Mozart's Grand Quartetto for the piano-forte, with accompaniments for a violin, tenor, and violoncello. 45. Prefton. This elegant and elaborate compofition is in E flat, major, and comprizes three movements; the firft of which is in comon-time, allegro, the fecond in three quavers, adagio, and the third in common time, allegretto. Every bar bears the ftamp of Mozart's peculiar genius, and exhibits an exuberancy of fancy and accuracy of arrangement, to which but few compofitions, ancient or modern, can justly pretend. We could point out many beautiful paffages, but the merit of this great musician is of fuch notoriety as to preclude the neceffity of entering into particulars; it is, therefore, fufficient to add, that the prefent work is in every refpect worthy its great author.

The Prophecy, a facred Oratorio in two parts, and Ocean, an ode in one part. Performed March 29th, 1799, at the Theatre Royal Hay-market. The only one compojed in this country nearly thefe thirty years.

It is not perfectly within the pale of

MONTHLY MAG. No. XLIV.

this department of our Magazine, to notice works in manufcript, but Mr. Bufby's late fcientific enterprize was at once fo novel, and of fuch extraordinary merit and magnitude, that we cannot refit the impulfe to gratify our mufical readers with a few remarks on the above productions.

Understanding that the compofer had dared to trike out a ftyle for himself, combining the grandeur of the greatest ancients, with the sweetness of the most admired moderns, we attended the performance with high-wrought expectations; and the curtain had not long been up, before they were ftill increafed by the powerful effect of a fugue in the overture which inftantly arrested our attention, and to the Prophecy, the beautiful fubject of was anfwered by the bafs in a manner which aftonished the whole audience, and extorted a fudden and univerfal burit of applaufe.

The airs were not only uncommonly chatte and elegant in themfelves, but remarkably rich in their accompaniments; and the choruffes difplayed that fublimity, expreffion, and correctnefs of counterpoint, which no other compofer of the prefent day appears to have attempted. ftyle of the ode was alfo truly noble. The

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overture and choruffes were of a caft be

tween Handel and Boyce, and the airs poffeffed all the mellifluency of Arne, blended with a dignity not to be found in the works of that charming author.

Mifs Poole, Mafter Elliot, Mr. Nield, and the other principal vocal performers, acquitted themfelves to the highest fatisfaction of their auditors; and Mr. Cramer, whofe anxious attention throughout the performance was evident to the whole houfe, led the band in his very beft ftyle.

We cannot but congratulate Mr. Bufby, and all his cotemporaries of talent,

on this his welcome entrance into the Lyceum of the Mufical Claffics. He has proved that the genius of the old fchool is not extinct; and that the lovers of the fublimer fpecies of compofition will no longer be under the neceffity of continually recurring to the reiterated firains of Purcel, Handel, Correlli and Geminiani. The harmonic energies have again been awakened, and we entertain the hope that this brilliant effort will encourage other profeffors of genius and science to exertions equally honourable to themfelves, and as gratifying to the public.

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VARIETIES,

LITERARY and PHILOSOPHICAL; Including Notices of Works iu Hand, Domestic and Foreign. * Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 'HE Rev. ARTHUR HOMER, D. D. during the late war; but all others of Tand Rellow or Su Mary Magdalen and celebrity, which have been

College, Oxford, has circulated propofals for printing by fubfcription a work, entitled, "Bibliotheca Univerfalis Americana;" or an univerfal American library containing a general catalogue of publications, relating to America and the Weft Indies, from the firft difcovery thereof by Columbus in 1492, to the end of the prefent century. This work is intended to comprife not only all books and pamphlets relating to America and the Welt Indies, particularly thofe in our own language, which were written

written by American authors, or have proceeded originally from the American prefs, upon what subjects foever they may treat. The beft maps, charts, &c. will likewife generally be added, together with all the voyages and difcoveries in the North and South Seas throughout the whole of the western hemifphere.

The divifions, which at prefent appear moft eligible to the Editor, are--

of

1. The general History and Defcription the Countries included in this plan, containing the general accounts of Voyages, Trayels,

vels, Adventures, Journals, Campaigns, Sieges, Battles, &c.

2. Geographical Books, and Gazetteers, Atlaffes, Maps, Charts, &c.

3. Books upon Divinity and Moral Subjects; particularly the Disputes and Perfecutions of the Quakers in l'ennfylvania and New England, the Hiftory of the United Brethren in America, and all other religious Sects. 4. Law Books, State Papers, Trials, and Political Pamphlets.

5. Books relating to Natural Hiftory, Medicine, Chirurgery, &c.

6. Ditto to the Arts and Sciences, Antiquities and Literature in general.

7. Ditto to Trade in general and Plantation, Agriculture, and the American Fish

eries.

8. Ditto to the Affairs of the South Sea Company in particular.

9. Ditto of the Scots Colony at Darien. 1c. Ditto of the Hudfon's Bay Company. 11. Ditto of the celebrated Milliffippi Scheme.

12. Ditto of the Slave Trade and African Company trading to the Weft Indies.

13. Ditto of Poetry, Mufic, Novels, and Dramatic Compofitions.

14. Addenda, or Appendix of Mifcellaneous Articles not included under the above heads, or accidentally before omitted.

Laftly. All books in the Indian languages,

to what clafs foever they may properly belong, will be thrown together into a feparate Appendix, as more particularly appropriate to this publication..

The work fhall confit of two volumes in quarto, of about five hundred pages each. The price to fubfcribers two guineas in boards, to be paid when the whole is completed.

The interesting "Travels in North America" by the DUKE DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULT LIANCOURT, are preparing for publication by Mr. NEUMAN, with every poffible expedition. A delay of a few days has been occafioned by the engraver, and by the neceffity of doing justice in the English language, to a publication embracing to many interefts and from the pen of fo intelligent a traveller. As the tour was made fo recently as the years 1796, 7, and 8, the work may be expected to prove the most authentic and valuable on the fubje&t of American policy, manners, agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, which has hitherto appeared.

The

The fuccefsful candidate for both the prize questions of 1798, propofed by the Phyfical Society, at Guy's Hofpital, was Dr. WARWICK, of Rotherham. questions for 1799, appeared in our last. In the courfe of May will be published, a new edition of " Inflitutes of Natural

Philofophy, Theoretical, and Experimental;" by the late Dr. ENFIELD, with corrections, and additions; together with an "Introduction to the first Principles of Chemystry. In one volume in quarto, illuftrated with plates.

A correct portrait of " George Fox," the founder of the fect, of the people called quakers, is preparing for publica tion from the original painting of him, by HONTHORST; (in the year 1654, and in the 30th, year of Fox's Age), now in the poffeflion of Mr. RICKMAN.-The price of the print will be five fhillings each-of proofs ten fhillings.

A new theoretical work is in the prefs, Compofition," written and dedicated to his intitled "An Effay on Practical Mufcal Majelty, by A. F. C. KOLLMANN, organift of his Majefty's German Chapel, St. James's.

Mr. SHERIDAN, who fo fuccessfully prepared KOTZEBUE's play of The Stranger for reprefentation on the English ftag, is now employed in bringing out that author's famous tragedy of The SPANIARDS IN PERU, or The DEATH OF ROLLA, under the altered title of poffcis the requifite charm of novelty, PIZARRO. That the performance might this piece has been laid upon the fhelf, at Mifs PLUMPTRE's printed tranflation of the particular requeft of Mr. Sheridan, till after the piece has appeared upon the stage. Pizarro, who gives name to Mr. Sheridan's altered play, is the principal character in KOTZEBUE's Spaniards in Peru.

Mr. A. Q. BUEE, a French clergyman of Bath, the intimate friend of the celebrated Mrs. HAUY, is about to publish a work entitled, "Recherches Mathematiques fur la texture intime des Corps."

HEYNE, the celebrated editor of Vir gil, has given a very ample account in the Gottingen Anfeigen of Mr. WAKEFIELD's Lucretius; in which he peaks of that gentleman's talents, and erudition, in terms of the higheft admiration. He defcribes the edition as the most splendid and correct that has yet appeared of any claffic. In juftice to our learned and illustrious countryman we fhall take an early opportunity to prefent our readers with an extract from the diflertation of fo profound a scholar and critic as profeffor Heyne.

Dr. WILLIAM TURTON, author of the "Medical Gloffary," is about to print a tranflation of the " Syflima Nature of Linné," from the laft edition by Gmellin. It will be comprifed in four large octavo volumes, and will include the later difco

veries of focieties and naturalifts. The English natural productions will be diftinguished by an afterifk. Each department will be accompanied with an appropriate introduction, defcriptive plates, and explanation of the Linnéan terms. The first volume, containing the mammalia, aves, amphibia and pifces, will be ready for publication fome time in the enfuing autumn. The great price of Gmellin's edition, and the total exclufion of those not well acquainted with the Latin languages, from confulting the works of the founder of his fyftem, will make this publication an acceptable prefent to the lovers of natural hiftory, and an ufeful addition to the ftock of English fcientific literature.

Mr. WILLIAM JONES, optician, of Holborn, has just edited a new edition, being the fifth, of "Effays on Electricity," by the late Mr. GEORGE ADAMS; to which he has added, feveral new and careful particulars, befides the corrections of many errors in the references to the figures of the plates. The work is in one vo

lume octavo.

Mr. JONES has alfo in the prefs, a new and general treatife on the Ufe of the Globes," intended principally to accompany the new 18 and 12 inch British globes, which have been conftructed by himself.

Dr. TOWNSON's volume of "Tracts in Natural Hiflory and Phyfiology," is now in the prefs, and will thortly be publifhed.

Dr. JENNER'S "Treatife on the Cow Pox," has been tranflated into the French. CAPTAIN STEDMAN'S "Travels to Surinam and the Interior of Guiana," have been lately tranflated into French, and published at Paris.

A portion of the fifth volume of the "Tranfactions of the Ahatic Society at Calcutta," has been already received in this country. Notwithstanding the lofs they have fuftained by the death of Sir William Jones; thofe learned gentlemen continue their refearches into every part of the hiftory and literature of Hindooftan, and of the reft of Afia, with a diligence and a fuccefs, which feem to render their papers more generally interefting than thofe of any of the erudite and fcientific focieties of Europe.

The Reverend BENJAMIN HUTCHESON, has lately made a ferics of very claborate and ingenious meteorological obfervations; from which he has been led to infer, that the Moon-whatever influence the may, at times, exercife upon

men's brains-has none at all upon the changes in the weather.

There has been recently communicated to the Royal Society of London, a series of very curious experiments by a medical gentleman of this country; tending to thew, how far mercury, adminiftered as a medicine, acts by exciting the galvanic fufceptibility of the animal nerves.

During this winter fome remarkable experiments on the freezing of quickfilver have been made in London, by Meffrs. Allen and Lawfon, chemifts. The frigorific ingredients ufed were, crystallifed muriat of lime and fnow, as recommended by Seguin. In the first experiment, four ounces of mercury in a retort, immerfed in a mixture of fnow and muriat of lime, was perfectly fixed in fifteen minutes, the degree of cold being 50 deg In another, made on Feb. 7, the external temperature being 33 deg. the unprecedented quantity of 561b. avoirdupois of mercury, enclofed in a bladder, was completely fixed in the fame mixture in the space of an hour and forty minutes. The degree of cold at firft produced was 62 deg.-Philofophical Mag.

Mr. MALCOLM LAING'S "Hiflory of Scotland, from the Union of the Crowns to the Union of the Kingdoms," is now in the prefs.

The learned Mr. JOSEPH GRANT, will fhortly publish A View of the principles and Practice of the Law of Scotland, compared with the Principles of the Law of England.” This work is very much wanted for the direction of practifing lawyers in both thefe countries. Such is the intercourfe of life and bufinefs, that the Scottish lawyer is frequently, concerning cafes in the English law, which his contracted knowledge is infufficient to give any useful advice about. And even English lawyers of the higheft eminence, know, for the greater part, juft as much concerning the practical detail of the law of Scotland, as concerning that of the laws of the Medes and Perfians, even though Scottish appeals are, every year, brought, in fuch numbers, before the Houfe of Peers. Mr. Grant has enjoyed fingular advantages, adapted to qualify him for the able accomplishment of his undertaking. It will certainly fupply an important defideratum in the lawyer's li brary.

Dr. BARON, of the University of St. Andrews, is understood to have been long engaged upon an important philofophical work on the principles of "Rhetoric and Literary Compofitions," which, it

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