The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics . ink, Oh! happy taw-ny Moor, a Swedish dance of sin-gular originality, Ye banks andbraes. All these subjects are amal-gamated into a sort of musical pot-pourri with infinite taste, and withno less a degree of sterling science ;and the whole is brought to a con-clusion (pp. 16 and 17) in a master-ly manner. Three Canzonets, Italian andEnglish, with an Accompanimentfor the Piano-forte, composed, anddedicated to Mrs. Antrobus, by G<Liverati, late composer to theKings Theatre, Haymarket, andauthor of the favourit
The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics . ink, Oh! happy taw-ny Moor, a Swedish dance of sin-gular originality, Ye banks andbraes. All these subjects are amal-gamated into a sort of musical pot-pourri with infinite taste, and withno less a degree of sterling science ;and the whole is brought to a con-clusion (pp. 16 and 17) in a master-ly manner. Three Canzonets, Italian andEnglish, with an Accompanimentfor the Piano-forte, composed, anddedicated to Mrs. Antrobus, by G<Liverati, late composer to theKings Theatre, Haymarket, andauthor of the favourite opera/ Selvaggi, &c. At the moment when our month-ly review was going to press, thesecanzonets came into our hands,and their great intrinsic value ap-peared to render it a matter of dutyto our readers, not to lose an in-stant in bringing them under theirconsideration. Thus limited inpoint of time and space, we mustforego the pleasure we should other-wise have felt in entering upon aregular critical analysis of such richmaterials. We have the pride to • <^ ?I ? M 9. PICTORIAL CARDS SFJt I ofXLACKEEMfflirs MPi SIT, fiYof JOTS tec, TUb&untxi&id. FOUR PLAYING-CARDS. 355 think \Ve have established somecredit with our readers on the scoreof impartiality. But, then, will ourtaste coincide with theirs at alltimes? If it did in this instance,we might make bold to assure them,that, of vocal music, nothing supe-rior, nay nothing so good, has beenwritten in this country for manyyears. We feel the sweeping ex-tent of this assertion, but we shallstand by it, as far as our own tastegoes. Here we have, in rare com-bination, elegance of melodic ex-pression, true pathetic feeling, ori-ginality of thought, classic treat-ment, select and scientific harmo-ny; in short, all the requisites ofiirst-rate lyric composition. Tothese merits, we are happy to addother advantages of a more con-tingent nature. The Italian textis stated to be from the pen of , whose works in prose andin verse
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