Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . a considerablenumber of original works. Of Bohemian Gid and WallacesMaritana have survived even tothe present day. In The Bond-man, written throughout in music—with accompanied reci- EngUshtative in lieu of the ordinary spoken dialogue, with elaboratefinales and plenty of solid work for the orchestra—Baltemade an attempt to secure for a grand opera the samefavourable reception which had always been
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . a considerablenumber of original works. Of Bohemian Gid and WallacesMaritana have survived even tothe present day. In The Bond-man, written throughout in music—with accompanied reci- EngUshtative in lieu of the ordinary spoken dialogue, with elaboratefinales and plenty of solid work for the orchestra—Baltemade an attempt to secure for a grand opera the samefavourable reception which had always been extended to hisoperas of the famihar Bohemian Girl type: ballad opera, thatis to say, with the addition of a few concerted pieces. ButThe Bondman was coldly received ; and Balfe soon reverted tothe only form in which, even to this day, opera has provedacceptable in England to the general public. All nmsico-drainatic experiments made subsequently mthe form of grand opera have proved failures; though not,perhaps, by reason of the form alone. The only two com-posers in England who, since tlic time of Balfe, have writtenwith success for the stage are the late Goring Thomas, whose. liALKi:.(/•roui a Uthogmfh by C. IJaiiriiiier, ) 646 THE SUCCESSION OF THE DEMOCRACY. Esineralda on its first production made a decided mark; andProfessor (afterwards Sir Charles) Villiers Stanford, who in hisIrish opera of Shamus OBrien, composed in a style at oncepopular and artistic, has made an infinitely more favourahleimpression than was left by his Savonarola or by his farmore tolerable Cavferlritry The histor} of operatic and that of symphonic music in England do not march together on parallel lines, or with
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