New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-23
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

THE ALrISE GLEE SISGER by WIN. B. BRAD
BuRY.-A new Glee Book, from the prolific, but
careful pen OF Bradbury. Possessing the secret OF
arresting the popular ear, which il not born with
a man as in the present instance IS easily at
tanned the author of the "Mendessohn Collection
and its numerous kindred fraternity never finds 1t
difficult to make popular and successful book
The present book is a judicious selection OF very
choice German and English Gees with pleas
ant sprinkling Of the authors own composition.
Among the German quatettes we notice the ex-
mjsit four.voiced song Of MESDELssoHN, entitled
here THE Hungarian Farewell, which has Of
late. been taken into the hearts OF all German
singers. and is now sung from one end Of Germany
IN the other Another musical master spirit whose
name we are pleased to see, but who IS tar too
Iittle known this side of the Atlantic, is HAUPT-
uAyy. the last successor of John Sebastian Bach,
as cantor of the St. Thomas school in Leipsic.
more elegant and polished, and sweet composer
does not live especially in this department OF
vocal quartettes. Spollr Mehul, Rossni, and other
sterling composers blend their voices also with
the Alpine chorus which breathes out cheerily
from the other pages of the work What Plcases
us particularly in this book is the fresh, healthy
and pure spirit which pervades it throughout
The titles of the songs, The Bright Flag of
America, The Contented Man. Where's
Betty Keep thy Spirit Pure BE Kind to
the dear ones at Home show the right keynote
to strike in music to be sung by the people, =
patriotic buoyant, elevated, pure, and lightly
playful withal. Such subjects of song form
strong and refreshing contrast to the lovebor
sentimentalizng which too much choEcs the fresh
outburst of our nations music.
Bradbury s own music, of which we find seve-
raj specimens in the new Book, has q quality pc
culiar to itself. 1t is such music as you would
Judge was made in the open air, to which the au
thor OF it sang he made it, and which you your,
self feel constrained to sing with him. There IS
a certain vitality and glow in It, and an occasional
enthusiastic outbust, which betokens great
warmth of musical temperament In the quar-
tette entitled The Song for Me- we find at the
close this sudden musical outbreak, like the
bursting of a wave after gradual previous accu-
mutation The quartette, FLOWERS with Fra
GRANGE, is more than its commencement promises,
the patriotism expressed at the close lifting the
composer suddenly into an original and unexpect-
ed meditation, very iudicously led afterward to
the dominant of the original key and closing with
spirited cadence The bright flag of America
is fresh and bounding with swing ofthehat kind
of movement. in good keeping with the subject
All this music is within the popular capacity and
Appreciation and, therefore, successfully designed
and completed. For in this as in every depart
ment of art the wise artist aims at the wnlUersal
heart, and not at the special appreciation OF the
professional heart, in his limited circle of col
leagues The true taste, after ALL it strikes us, is
to eaaoJ7e tie popular clement in art THAT art
which appeals alike to the learned and the I'M
learned by skfu artistic treatment, surrounding
the simplest natural beauties with q halo of ar
tistic workmanship This it was that won for
Mozart at once his living celebrity and his after
enduring immortality This combination OF ma
ture and art it is which secures for the artist the
less thinking than tcc7ing present and the critical
future. and this closing thought we venture to
suggest to the author Of the Glee Singer, who
viii find such task ever grateful and remunera-
tive with the natural aud easy gift OF composition
he possesses
g-y j. Y. KEYczYNsKI Polish exile of cha
racter and distinction, proposes to publish sec
ond and much extended edition OF his RECOVERY
OF POLAND work containing synopsis OF Po-