"There is a tongue in every leaf." Song, with an
Accompaniment for the Pianoforte; composed by J. APMeardie, Mus. Bac. Oxon.
Mr. Midurdie is an excellent musician, belonging to the school of Eng- lish vocal harmony. His glees, canons, &c. are numerous and esteemed; but he appears to have written very few songs, or pieces for a single voice. This composition, however, does not betray inexperience in song-writing. The melody is free and flowing, yet in accordance with the gravity of the subject, and of unblemished purity of style. There is no good reasdh, how- ever, for treating the first stanza as a recitative and the remainder as an air; there being nothing in the poetry to ,suggest or sanction this distinc- tion. There are two or three faults in the accentuation of the words,-as where the particle "and" is given to a long accented note at the beginning of a bar. Such errors are so common among our composers that they are regarded as venial; a great mistake.
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