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CRITICAL NOTICES.
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Ode , written $ 50 years before Christ ; and sung by the veteran Brahaon in the oti g inut Greek ! After this , vre may confidently anticipate that ' it will not be very lon { J before we are favoured with equall y authentic Noah ' s Ark Melodies , sung b y the Bishop of 1 / inYran in the original Hebrew . The earlier productions in this selection depend 1
entirely on simple melody ; harmony being at the period of fnetrcomposition wholly unknown , and the accompaniment * , tfhen adnVrf were merely unisons . A great many of these pieces were iirianrfnously encored , —their natural and unadorned beauty producing a corresponding effect upon the feelings . Braham , H . Phillips , lms » SfrirrefF , and the charming Caradori , exerted themselres to the utmost , and
chiefly contributed to the success of an experiment , which reflects great credit on the erudition and invention of Hochaa . A new instrument , called a Clarone Basso , was introduced by Willman , who played a fantasia upon it in a style equally marvellous and delightful . We were also on this occasion introduced to a very talented Pranfste . We had previously heard many favorable reports of Mrs . Bridgman , and felt gratified , as one always does , at finding rumour veracious , bv the proof thus afforded us of her merits . She has fine execution , and yet
nher expression , ( the greatest rarity among professors of this instrument ) and her performance received profound attention thronafhout , and unanimous and prolonged applause- She played upon Zeitter ' s new patent Grand Pianoforte , which is beginning to create rather a serious sensation in certain quarters of the musical world ! but which , notwithstanding the opposition , is very likely we think , to supersede all other instruments of that class , or at least to divide opinion with the best . This was the first occasion on which it has been heard in
public , all the professors having , as usual , been afraid of a new thing ! How weak and ridiculous is this blind conservatism f Is not the world wide enough for all the brst grand pianofortes that can be fabricated ? Candidly speaking , —* how many large fortunes do Messrs . Alpha , Beta , really wish to make , before they give a chance to Zritrer ?' » . H .
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Pendllings hy the Way . By N . P . Willis , Esq ., Author of Melanie , the Sling-sby Papers , &c . 3 vols . John Macrone , St . James ' s Square , 1835 . It would be impossible to find a more correct title for this book than that which has been chosen . It has erid «« tly been written ' by the way , ' and it might be recommemied as exactly the kind of work to be read ' by the way / It is a very
agreeable collection of letters , making three amusing * volumes , and containing descriptions of places , persons , ana manners , such a * nothing but an almost immediate ' pencilling * down could have given . They are literal , minute * * P& unimaginative , but perfectly devoid of tcdiousness , because nothing
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Critical Notices . 189
Critical Notices.
CRITICAL NOTICES .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1836, page 189, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2655/page/61/
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