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Reviews Of New Music,
EEVIEWS OF NEW MUSIC ,
Smiles and Tears , Ballad , written by L . M . Thornton > Esq ,, and composed by W . T . Wkighton .:. " Robert Gocks and Co ., New Burlington Street—Par nobile fratrum , a re-union of two clever spirits , the author and composer of the " Postman ' s Knock , ' and between them they have produced a very charrr ^^ appeals to the heart and wins its easy way to appreciation . Ballads like this lead us to anticipate a restoration of the true old English school of song composition , that makes its way without effrontery .
11 Giuremiento , Fantasia by A . Billet . London : Addison , Hollier , and Lucas , 210 , Regent Street . —An easily to be executed allegro moderato introduction in common time , gently and sweetly tends to an adctnte cantabile in three four . Th ^ three great attributes of pianoforte composition , viz ., gracefulness , briUiance , attd facihty of performance . Crisp as icicles the notes appear to emanate from the hand of the perfbrmer , while a vein of delightfol melody winds its way through the entire piece * The allegretto scrterzando with eoncludes , is replete with beauties . M . Billet is a clever musician , and as a writer of this class of composition > his equal is rarely to be met with . An Englishman am I , National Song , words by Edwin Goyle , music by George S . Corby . London : J . H . Jewell , 104 , Great Russell Street , Bloomsbury . —This is a soul-stirring patriotic ballad , the sentiment of which must come home to the feelings of every Englishman imbued with a
love of his native island . Philanthropy is twined with love of country ; the rich are represented as fostering the poor ; and our warlike prowess is lauded in that modest spirit of praise , which , while it is warm in estimating pur naval and military attributes , eschews elaborate adulation . The music is highly appropriate , and is of that character that , while it tells the poetic idea , charms the ear with melody . We strongly recommend this song as likely to outlive the ephemeral popularity of the day .
A Pro Grand Master of former bays . —Lord Hastings ( afterwards Earl Moira ) , was a man of different mould ; he had a heart open to compassion , full of generous sentiments and tender emotions ; we know not which to admire mosthis courage , foresight , and magnanimity as a ruler , or his gentleness and kindness as a man . We can furnish proofs of his endearing qualities , but let us first guard ourselves from any supposition that we mean to assign tohim an inferior position among statesmen . Not so—his successes may have been , as we have admitted , less showy than those achieved by some of his predecessors , bat they were more substantial , and if he added less to our empire than did the most remarkable of his successors , at least his acquisitions were not closed , like the boasted annexations of Lord Dalhousie , in a war of extermination , and the implacable hatred of race , —Athencvwn *
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Reviews Of New Music,
EEVIEWS OF NEW MUSIC ,
Smiles and Tears , Ballad , written by L . M . Thornton > Esq ,, and composed by W . T . Wkighton .:. " Robert Gocks and Co ., New Burlington Street—Par nobile fratrum , a re-union of two clever spirits , the author and composer of the " Postman ' s Knock , ' and between them they have produced a very charrr ^^ appeals to the heart and wins its easy way to appreciation . Ballads like this lead us to anticipate a restoration of the true old English school of song composition , that makes its way without effrontery .
11 Giuremiento , Fantasia by A . Billet . London : Addison , Hollier , and Lucas , 210 , Regent Street . —An easily to be executed allegro moderato introduction in common time , gently and sweetly tends to an adctnte cantabile in three four . Th ^ three great attributes of pianoforte composition , viz ., gracefulness , briUiance , attd facihty of performance . Crisp as icicles the notes appear to emanate from the hand of the perfbrmer , while a vein of delightfol melody winds its way through the entire piece * The allegretto scrterzando with eoncludes , is replete with beauties . M . Billet is a clever musician , and as a writer of this class of composition > his equal is rarely to be met with . An Englishman am I , National Song , words by Edwin Goyle , music by George S . Corby . London : J . H . Jewell , 104 , Great Russell Street , Bloomsbury . —This is a soul-stirring patriotic ballad , the sentiment of which must come home to the feelings of every Englishman imbued with a
love of his native island . Philanthropy is twined with love of country ; the rich are represented as fostering the poor ; and our warlike prowess is lauded in that modest spirit of praise , which , while it is warm in estimating pur naval and military attributes , eschews elaborate adulation . The music is highly appropriate , and is of that character that , while it tells the poetic idea , charms the ear with melody . We strongly recommend this song as likely to outlive the ephemeral popularity of the day .
A Pro Grand Master of former bays . —Lord Hastings ( afterwards Earl Moira ) , was a man of different mould ; he had a heart open to compassion , full of generous sentiments and tender emotions ; we know not which to admire mosthis courage , foresight , and magnanimity as a ruler , or his gentleness and kindness as a man . We can furnish proofs of his endearing qualities , but let us first guard ourselves from any supposition that we mean to assign tohim an inferior position among statesmen . Not so—his successes may have been , as we have admitted , less showy than those achieved by some of his predecessors , bat they were more substantial , and if he added less to our empire than did the most remarkable of his successors , at least his acquisitions were not closed , like the boasted annexations of Lord Dalhousie , in a war of extermination , and the implacable hatred of race , —Athencvwn *