The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-10-30 00:00:00

NEW It U 810.•

Th. Moe Refs of &roamed is a them. which
composers have I ored to Mudy and amuse in every
risible degree of easy and difficult styles of comp°.
rition. It is a well•worn well.tisoll air. We are
told by • celebrated write; that both the author and
composer of this beautiful plaintive melody are
hmied in oblivion, and, like many more of these
aj,lheart-bursting strains of Soottish song, , The
Blue Bells of Scotland" bag been transmitted from
tie generation to another without losiug its purity,
its simplicity having saved it. This authorless
„..1,„ly ha., as we have already paid, passed through
rc,.cy degree of musical setting, and we can imagine
Oat +hen :Mr. R. Smith undertook the arrangement
,4 it he bail many difficulties to encounter. He was
to., good to do as many another composer had done,
ell., sit down and write off the arrangement, not
caring whether he was writing • thing which had
appeared before, but he list manfully to work,
collected, we are afraid to say, bow many copies of
various transcripthins; and, with these before him,
careful not te trespass upon the ideas of others, he
„minced, with considerable toil and labour, one of
;he most brilliant and beautiful transcriptions we
hive ever had the pleasure of hearing oncoming from
his pen. This musical gem has been re-set in all the
leant! of a rich and gorgeous framework, • pare
original design. We hope Mr. Boyton Smith will give
it st his forthcoming concert, and also his beautiful
Nightingale and Zephyr" being his masterpieces
ef transcriptive and ideal fancy. In the former
there is a tone of sadness mixed with • martial wild.
nen in frequently found in the music of the north,
and which is interpreted with faultless precision in
the variatiNia. _

The .Varil Po#ka, by Adam Wright, is a simple
little thing, and will do well for children. It is easy,
..; con be got up for their Christmas parties by
r„pka without much difficulty. Robert Cocks
sod CO.. are the publishes*
Eileen a Boos, with English and Gfilolllll words
to Herr Bernhard Althea.. "Thou an 001.47 (Du
Ai.f fern I. by the lime composer. There is one
great thing to be said in Civility of the compositions
of Herr Althea'', they are always most carefully and
studiously written. There is no tales ryttion or no.
nupocil progressiosia The words of "Eileen a Roon"
VP most passionate; there is • warmth of feeling in
them that has developed itself in the music. The
other day we were favoured lir a sight of the M S.
of his nee song. " Douglas ' which is now in the
b.,;„ of his publishers, and there runs through it the
as., ling appreciation of the beautiful, and a War-
ing frail' the beautiful to Coe sublime. There is a
dreamy softooss ton ahopt his music that seems to
monde with the soul, or the spirit of the song, we
should rather sly. The aocimpaniment of "Eileen a
i; ...a" is much yaried,anil la the last two pages diffi-
cult perhaps to young or moderato pianists, but the
overt of the srpaggio peonage. is very telling and
partg tilarly nice. In the rendering of "Thou art
Gone " we strongly recommend the use of the
Gentian words, they are sweeter and capable of
greater expression. It is quite a little tremors of
rierman song, neither long nor difficult; but • simple
besetirel melody. These songs do not present half
the difficulty in execution that will be found in Derr
Aithinge Morning Ride, " which has gained so
much popu'arity by the exquisite rendering of Miss
Stabbach, and its own intrinsic merits. Cleribel
may deem herself fortunate in having it so beau-
tifully set. It is to be sung, we believe, at the
New Alexandra Rooms, Blackheath, on the 7th of
.N.weniher (Wednesday). (Ewer sod Co., pub-
lishers).

Hibbs Song, be J. ft Carpenter, adapte 1 to the
!mime ef the "Ilihie Wake by Dam. Godfrey,
bandmaster of the Grenadier Guardia "Hilda" is
something like its companion, "Mabel," • pretty,
bright, graceful song, gliding in soft measured tease;
a song that will be rapidly learnt, and will be
showy without cawing the singer any great exertion.
Mr. Carpenter is a well•known uongwriter, and Mr.
G.alfrey is a celebrated composer, and, therefore,
they require but few words to bring their highly
rimier clam of music before our readers. One
verse we will gnats :
" Say not love is like aims April beam'
Itot a fleeting ray shot o'er life's darkstresm ;
Thisk the sun it.elf sets bat to rise,—
Why be sad my heart ? Tree love Dever dim."
This song is published by Chappell sad Co.

Hutchings and Romer- have seat forth another of
el inhere chroming songs, "Swallow Min again."
It is one of Hines bright drawiog-roont songs that
xithent pretending to be sublime, certainly grasps
Illmetbing of the beautiful. Her descriptive passagee
are very pretty. Take for instance this verse :
" ftlsek.thorn hears. lIATe in W....n0,
Orrhanla Sashed with ro.y bloom;
All the swallows silver-auto!,
And the late.t audio° comes.
All the wmds with song, are tinging,
Luke are warbling o'er the plain;
All the little ogres:al ts .inging,
Swallow, mallow, stoma swain."
There is a liquid kind of water mimic traceable in
the last verse, where she speaks of the swallow com-
ing across the summer seas.

Roomy and Sons have puhlislied the favourite
Corne back to Erin. This song has had a decided
run of popularity, as has also the waltz arraeged by
Frank Musgrave from this melody. The accompani-
ment to this song is rather more diflicelt than that
'Allotted to the previously mentioned ballad. It is
excessively touching, and will bear a good deal of
nioe expression, and is very similar to Norah's Trem
sure, to which it would be a pretty companion, if it
does not supersede it--

“Oret the green use marourneen, rnaeourneen.
Tem, .hone the white sail that bore thee RI•Ry.
Riling the white waves that fair summer mornin',
Ja4 like a Mayflower afloat on the bay.
0 hut my heart sank when clouds cone between an,
Ike a grey certain the rain falling down,
Hid from my sea eyes the path o'er ths ocean.
Far, far away. •Arbom my colleen had flown.”

The Ship Hoed K..eaor mai Rohitirßesurn, compulsion
ono" with Do You Remember and Pries Pour Elle,
all CIIIIUWW4 sot praise for Clarihel and her vaned
taleate, which are so charming and captivating. All
these wogs. &c., may be had at J. Robineon's Music
.1100 n Do rchsater.—L.

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