The Musical Library. Part XXVI.
This excellent publication is gradually aril extensively diffusing mu- sical knowledge and pleasure throughout the kingdom. Many vocal as well its instrumental compositions of great beauty it rescues from oblivion, here to •
" Bloom with new life, and charm another race."
We cannot discern any falling off in the character of the pieces selected, nor need any be anticipated. The vocal student, restricted in his re- searches to the present or the last century, will find what is excel- lent even in a remoter period,- music that will live and delight, when much of that with which our ears ate at present jailed will be unheard and unknown. One merit, no inconsiderable one, in the present work, is the variety of style, as well as of age and country, which it displays in monthly succession. The instrumental contribu- tors to the present number are BEETHOVEN and WEBER; the vocal, ARNOLD, CAm.corr, SMITH, (not PURCELL, its the titlepage errone- ously states,) Mcsnm.ssonN, SACC1IIN1, and MARTINI.
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