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On The Peculiar Excellencies Of Handel's Music.
of excellence , and soars a height which , disjoined from its powerful all }' , was impossible to be obtained . Before Handel , 1 cannot recollect any instance of this perfection . Our best vocal music was in the church , and our best composers were Puree ) , Wise , Weldon , and a little later , Croft , whose merit , as far as it reachedwill be ever felt and acknowledged .
, Instrumental music was perhaps universally barbarous until the time of Corelli , whose compositions seemed to open a new world . Even in these our times , when instrumental music is so much improved , Corelli is still a favourite , and not only with old-fashioned people . The reason why he is so would carry me too far from the ' subject . What Corelli did for bow-instrumentsHandel did'for the
, harpsichord . We acknowledge the'improvements of the modern symphonists , but we still relish a concerto of Corelli ; and no great performer on the harpsichord but sits down with pleasure to the Suites , des Pieces pour le Clavecin .
The music for the Stage was thoroughly wretched , and continued , so until the little musical entertainments of Carey and the Beggar ' s Opera , which made their appearance long after the time of Handel ' s first residence in England . Such was the state of our music at the beginning of ( his century , and long after . What are called Handel ' s Hautbois Concertoshave so much
sub-, ject / real air , and solid composition , that they always are heard With the greatest pleasure , and are undoubtedly the best things of their class . I believe they were the first attempt to unite wind-instrument * with violins , which union was long reprobated in Italy . ( TO BE CONTINUED . )
History Of The Sciences For 1797.
HISTORY OF THE SCIENCES FOR 1797 .
ACCOUNT OF THE LATE COMET . TO WHICH IS AUDEO THE THEORY OF COMETS .
A NEW comet was seen by Miss Caroline Herschell , at Slough , at half past nine o ' clock on Monday , August the 1 4 th , and at ten the same night , by Mr . Lee of Hackney , and Boubard , astronomer of the Observatory at Paris . It was then near the head of Auriega . Mr . William Walker , the lecturer in astronomy , saw it at half past
eight o ' clock on the iSth , when it was nearly on the pole of the ecliptic , in the shape of a rhomboide , with Q and X Draconis , and a star of the fourth magnitude in the left heel of Hercules . It appeared then to the naked eye as a faint star ; but through a good telescope , of about the power of forty , it was like the nebula of Andromeda .
On the 19 th , about one , it had moved near 14 degrees , having moved 12 deg . in the 24 hours . Measured by a micrometer-wire , fixed to an achromatic , the diameter of the distinct while light was 2 deg . 30 min . Its nucleus was
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On The Peculiar Excellencies Of Handel's Music.
of excellence , and soars a height which , disjoined from its powerful all }' , was impossible to be obtained . Before Handel , 1 cannot recollect any instance of this perfection . Our best vocal music was in the church , and our best composers were Puree ) , Wise , Weldon , and a little later , Croft , whose merit , as far as it reachedwill be ever felt and acknowledged .
, Instrumental music was perhaps universally barbarous until the time of Corelli , whose compositions seemed to open a new world . Even in these our times , when instrumental music is so much improved , Corelli is still a favourite , and not only with old-fashioned people . The reason why he is so would carry me too far from the ' subject . What Corelli did for bow-instrumentsHandel did'for the
, harpsichord . We acknowledge the'improvements of the modern symphonists , but we still relish a concerto of Corelli ; and no great performer on the harpsichord but sits down with pleasure to the Suites , des Pieces pour le Clavecin .
The music for the Stage was thoroughly wretched , and continued , so until the little musical entertainments of Carey and the Beggar ' s Opera , which made their appearance long after the time of Handel ' s first residence in England . Such was the state of our music at the beginning of ( his century , and long after . What are called Handel ' s Hautbois Concertoshave so much
sub-, ject / real air , and solid composition , that they always are heard With the greatest pleasure , and are undoubtedly the best things of their class . I believe they were the first attempt to unite wind-instrument * with violins , which union was long reprobated in Italy . ( TO BE CONTINUED . )
History Of The Sciences For 1797.
HISTORY OF THE SCIENCES FOR 1797 .
ACCOUNT OF THE LATE COMET . TO WHICH IS AUDEO THE THEORY OF COMETS .
A NEW comet was seen by Miss Caroline Herschell , at Slough , at half past nine o ' clock on Monday , August the 1 4 th , and at ten the same night , by Mr . Lee of Hackney , and Boubard , astronomer of the Observatory at Paris . It was then near the head of Auriega . Mr . William Walker , the lecturer in astronomy , saw it at half past
eight o ' clock on the iSth , when it was nearly on the pole of the ecliptic , in the shape of a rhomboide , with Q and X Draconis , and a star of the fourth magnitude in the left heel of Hercules . It appeared then to the naked eye as a faint star ; but through a good telescope , of about the power of forty , it was like the nebula of Andromeda .
On the 19 th , about one , it had moved near 14 degrees , having moved 12 deg . in the 24 hours . Measured by a micrometer-wire , fixed to an achromatic , the diameter of the distinct while light was 2 deg . 30 min . Its nucleus was