MUSIC FOR TnE PEOPLE.

" Lightly she tripped" ATIMIST.

" WC shepherds sing " WKFT.XES.

" Nel pitt florae Aprile" L, M ARK N ZIO.

" Maidens fair " GAsTetnr.

" We have heard with our ears" PALESTRINA.

" I will :wise" CHM/111'0N. " I will praise thy name" PALESTBINA. " Gloria Petri " " Pencass. " in going to my lonely 1:015" TAMIS. " V iver Belo ,oglio " GASIKILDT.

" All creatures now " BENNET.

All this variety of excellence (for the selection combines severe stiblist laity, pathetic tenderness, and sportive gayety—it embraces also the schools of Rome and Florence, as well as those of England) is ac- complished by voices alone. This is the best answer to the too preva- lent error that music is an expensive luxury, and therefore the exclu- sive property of affluence. We seem, in fact, to be approaching the time when it will be just the reverse; since even the Norwich weavers are possessing themselves of the musical riches of Italy, and leaving the dross to royalty and nobility.

Wnian the shallow, frothy, and noisy current of fashionable musical (must we call it ?) taste, is dashing along, it is satisflactory to find increasing evidences of the quiet, steady progress of an under-current, which bids fair to carry along with it the good sense of the really musical portion of

the nation. With the majority of these, already, the once potent audio.

rity of fashion is gone : the musical world of England is divided into two distinct and opposite classes—lovers of the frivolous, and lovers of the solid. The works of great foreign and English masters are sought with zeal and avidity ; copies are largely multiplied; and they are both creating and feeding an appetite for musical excellence. PALESTRINA, PURCELL„ and GIBBONS, are about to lift up their voices in Exeter Halt

and to show us of what stuff our cathedral music is really composed. Vocal instruction is beginning to form a part of education among boys and girls of all classes ; and societies for the cultivation and practice of social vocal harmony are increasing in town and country. The same pest brought us, this week, two evidences of this fact; which we subjoin, as welcome and unequivocal "signs of the times," The first is the scheme of a concert given by the members of a so- ciety, numbering 100 voices of both sexes, at the Girl's School-room in Harp Alley, Farringdon Street ; a meeting, we believe, for weekly in. struction and practice.

" since first I saw " Fenn.

" Forgive, blest shade " CALLCOTT. " Then round about the narry throne" " Thy voice, 0 harmony' " Return. return" Lord MOUNINCITON.

" Every bush new spriagmg" NeAITINE.DIsu, " Flora gave me v " Le, where with flowery head" MORLEY. " when all alone" Coavauso.

" Now , O uow " Dowieuse.

The admittance to this concert of excellent music was one shilling! The next is the scheme of the recent anniversary of the Norwich Madrigal Society ; of which the general tone and character is yet higher.