MUSIC.
La Rosa : Album Vocak. Composto det Luigi Gor- drgiani di Firenze. This is a remarkably elegant publieation both in form and matter ; not only ornamental on a drawingroom-table, but interesting on a lady's piano- forte. It is a collection of vocal pieces by Signor Gordigiani of Florence, whose reputation on the Continent as an Italian song-writer is similar to 'that of Schubert as a composer of the German school. The volume con- tains several airs and duets, a terzetto, and a quartet; all for female 'voices. We lately noticed the comparative scarcity of vocal music for ladies, calculated for private and social use ; and we may add the present 'to the works which we mentioned as supplying that desideratum. Gor- digiani's songs and concerted pieces are in the purest Italian style—the style formed by the Paesiellos and Cimarosas of a former day ; dear, simple, and perfectly vocal, with originality of thought and great skill in construction. They have the further recommendation that their words are "choice Italian" ; graceful little poems, some of them very gay, others tender and pathetic. "Le Rivals, " the colloquy between two country-girls who describe to each other their stolen meetings with a favoured swain, till they discover that the same gay deceiver has been flirting with both, is as quaint and pretty, as the quartet "Le Prigo- slier° "—the scene of the widow and her orphan girls languishing in an Italian prison—is affecting. The book is dedicated, by permission, to Queen Victoria; who, of course, is the "Rosa d'Inglulterra."
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