Flowers if Swig ; selected, from thc most celebrated Composers, adopkdfor
Voice, Flute, or Vidin.
Indeed, Mr. D'AI.MaISM, it is a dangerous and a cruel experiment thus to strip your composers stark naked and thrust them into the wide world. Successions of notes miscalled melodies, when covered with an embroidered mantle of accompaniment, luny, so shielded aud adorned, attract sonic fess inexperienced admirers ; but thus exposed in all their nudity, they can excite only derision or disgust. The pro• duction of a melody at once symmetrical, graceful, and interesting, is among the rarest achievements of the musician-witness, among a thousand other instances, the flimsy, tawdry, unmeanieg phrases which
pretend to pass for such in the present volume. Among runny of these, a few appear of redeeming excellence. If a specimen of each Is sought, let the inquirer turn to page 15O, where thaw will furnish one of the former kind, and Bistlole one of the latter in the precedieg page. I !Litz's soles Mold scarcely lay hold of any memory : B iso oe's bus been caught und chanted by thousands who never even saw the notes.
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