NICCOLI DE' LAPI. BROKEN PLEDGES-UN-DRESS AUDIENCES-AND MLLE. TITIENS. THE manager of Her Majesty's Theatre deserves the (thanks of opera-house, that Mr. Mapleson may complain of our having selected him as a victim for special stricture. Does he differ in this respect from preceding managers? Perhaps not. We smart, however, from the fresh memory of the every-day announcement that the Schira-d'Azeglio opera was ready for production. The mountains were perpetually parturient, but nothing was produced. At last the notice was withdrawn. IMPORTANT TO MUSICIANS. AN ingenious yet simple invention has recently come under our notice, in the shape of a small gymnastic apparatus, called the "Ranelagh.' Its object is the expansion of the chest, the prevention and correction of spinal curvature, and general strengthening and developing the muscles of the arms, back, loins, and legs. It has the merit of being so portable, that when packed it occupies little more space than the crown of an ordinary sized hat; it can be fixed in a moment in any room, and used without the slightest fear of strain or undue exertion by ladies or children, and enjoys the additional advantage of not getting out of order. Of the agreeable sensation it communicates to the whole frame we can speak highly, from our own personal experience. To singers, the Ranelagh" would be of inestimable value, expanding that part of the body in which the lungs are situated, giving the whole breathing apparatus full play, and fortifying the system generally throughout. We have, therefore, no hesitation in recommending this admirable contrivance, of which full particulars may be learned of Mr. F. Milnes, Gloucester. Advertisements. ROBERT COCKS & CO.'S LIST TH OF NEW MUSIC. THE NEWEST DUNDREARY POLKA for the W. By HENRY F. CHORLEY. "Every reader will follow Mr. Chorley's chronicle with unflagging interest. We can hardly name two volumes of pleasanter gossip about music and singers."-— Cornhill Magazine. is characterised by the highest critical acumen."-Post. "Mr. Chorley's interesting, amusing, and instructive work, while full of anecdote, The manager has, however, made up for this shortcoming by THIRTY YEARS' MUSICAL RECOLLECTIONS. his liberality towards the close of the season. The waiver of the restrictions on dress is, during this summer season, a real boon; and it is a satisfaction, while habitués are off to the moors, for the less privileged classes to occupy, at a reasonable price, the patrician boxes and stalls. People in walking costume are just as competent to criticize Mlle. Titiens as the exquisites who lounge in Fop's Alley; and, if that artist values appreciation conveyed from other quarters besides May Fair, she may be sure of an audience as intelligent as well as demonstrative. As a real artist, she probably "Every page of these volumes offers pleasant reminiscences. Whether as a con scientious history, a graceful series of portraits, or an anecdotical record, the author must be congratulated on the work he has accomplished.-Athenæum. HURST AND BLACKETT, Publishers, 13 Great Marlborough Street. does set store by these latter-day cheap audiences. Charles Young, NEW PIANOFORTE MUSIC BY R. ANDREWS.— the late actor, preferred acting, to Manchester cotton-spinners in their own city rather than in London; Mrs. Siddons played three years consecutively at Edinburgh in preference to the metropolis; and Mlle. Titiens probably has the good sense to share these artistic views. MR. H. C. COOPER AND MADAME TONNELIER.-We beg to call the attention of musical entrepeneurs in Brighton and its neighbourhood to the advertisement of Mr. H. C. Cooper and Madame Tonnelier, whose services will doubtless be largely called into requisition throughout Sussex and the adjacent counties. Easy Transcriptions of REICHARDT's Popular Songs. ... London: DUNCAN DAVISON & Co., 244 Regent Street, W. BRINLEY RICHARDS' COMPOSITIONS. ... 2s. 2s. 6d. 4s. 3s. BRINLEY RICHARDS" "Leopold" (Mazurka) 35. "A great number of Studies for the Pianoforte already exist, solely intended to form the mechanism of the fingers. "In writing a series of short characteristic pieces, I have aimed at a totally different object. "I wish to habituate both Students and Amateurs to execute a piece with the expression, grace, elegance, or energy required by the peculiar character of the composition; more particularly have I endeavoured to awaken in them a feeling for Musical Rhythm, and a desire for the most exact and complete interpretation of the Author's intentions. "STEPHEN HELLER.” THE EDITION CONSISTS OF FIFTEEN BOOKS, PRICE SIX SHILLINGS EACH. FOR OR ORCHESTRA.-MEYERBEER'S GRAND EXHIBITION OVERTURE is now ready, for full orchestra. Price 12s. Also AUBER'S GRAND EXHIBITION MARCH, for Orchestra. Price 7s. 6d. BOOSEY & SONS, Holles Street. 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Chappell's 100 Sacred Songs, Anthems, Chappell's Favourite Airs in "Robin Chappell's Favourite Airs in "Lurline," Chappell's 100 Operatic Melodies. Chappell's 100 Irish Airs. N ENTIRELY NEW WORK, containing Original Chappell's 100 Operatic Melodies, Songs, Chappell's Popular Songs. In 2 Books AN Contributions of Vocal and Pianoforte Music, by Balfe, Hatton, H. Smart, G. Linley, Goodban, Brinley Richards, Glover, and most of our popular English Composers. Illustrated by the best Artists, and most handsomely bound. Price One Guinea. Exhibited, Class 16, No. 3425, as a Specimen of Music Engraving and Printing, and Chromo-Lithography. METZLER & CO. 37, 38 & 35 GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET, W. AND PIANOFORTE AND HARMONIUM WAREROOMS AT No. 16. Dances, &c. GUITAR. each 1s. 6d. HARMONIUM. Care should be taken to Order CHAPPELL'S Cheap Works, as they Printed by HENDERSON, RAIT, and FENTON, at No. 13, Winsley Street, Oxford Street, in the Parish of Marylebone, in the County of Middlesex. 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SON ONGS OF SCOTLAND.-HANOVER SQUARE ROOMS.MONDAY NEXT, September 29, at Eight o'clock. Mr. KENNEDY will repeat his ENTERTAINMENT on the SONGS OF SCOTLAND, including Selections from the "Gentle Shepherd." Pianoforte, Mr. E. Land. Stalls, 4s.; Area, 28.; Back Seats, 1s.; may be obtained at the Rooms, and at the principal Music-sellers. R. SCOTSON CLARK begs to announce that he has Messrs. Ashdown and Parry, 18 Hanover Square. SHDOWN & PARRY (successors to Wessel & Co.) references in town. Returns to be made at Midsummer and Christmas. Their Catalogues, which contain a great variety of Music calculated for teaching purposes, may be had, post-free, on application. M. THONJOCEL, will play his admired Waltz, NEW ORGAN MUSIO, BY HENRY SMART, SILVER CORD," and during the ensuing week, in the English and German Courts, at the International Exhibition. R. HENRY WEBB (VIOLA) begs to announce his Place, Harrington Square, N.W. R. FREDERIC PENNA will sing ALFRED MELLON'S DAY," at Devonport, September 30; at Plymouth, October 1; at Teignmouth, October 2; at Exmouth, October 3. Tr NO CONCERT GIVERS IN BRIGHTON AND TOWNS ADJACENT.-MR. H.C.COOPER (Solo Violinist) and MADAME TONNELIER (Prima Donna) are in Brighton for the season. Terms for Concerts, &c., either separately or together-may be known on application (by letter) to Mr. COOPER, No. 3 Cobden Place, Brighton. NEW PIANOFORTE MUSIC BY R. ANDREWS.— Easy Transcriptions of REICHARDT's Popular Songs. "Are they meant but to deceive me?" (Mazurka Polonoise) "The Golden Stars" (Die Goldenen Sterne) "Good Night" (Cradle Song) "Thou art so near and yet so far" (Cradle Song) 28. NEW EW SONGS BY W. VINCENT WALLACE."The Song of May" "When thou and I last parted" London: DUNCAN DAVISON & Co., 244 Regent Street, W. EW SONGS BY ALEXANDER REICHARDTS 26 NEW "Good Night" (Cradle Song), "Memory" (dedicated to Miss Helen Hogarth) "Are they meant but to deceive me?" "The Golden Stars" "Thou art so near and yet so far," as a VOCAL DUET London: DUNCAN DAVISON & Co., 244 Regent Street, MU WOR Mr. "These are three morceaux de salon of the most elegant description. AGUILAR'S Dream Dance' is a graceful and imaginative movement, which would make a charming accompaniment to a dance of sylphs or fairies in a ballet. Mr. Berger has selected as the themes of his fantasia the two most favourite airs, There's truth in woman still,' and 'A young and artless maiden,' in Mr. Howard Glover's pretty operetta; working them, by adding a short introduction, and a brilliant coda in tempo di valsa, into a masterly and animated pianoforte piece, in which the vocal melodies are embellished by a rich and varied accompaniment. Mr. Macfarren's Tarantella is of course in the time and measure of this Neapolitan dance, and preserves the rapidity of its breathless whirl. While, however, it is thus conventional in its form, it is new and original in its details. There occurs, in particular, in the midst of it, a deliciously soft and flowing melody, played with the left hand, as if an the violoncello or bassoon, with a light and airy accompaniment in the upper part which contrasts beautifully with the impetuous current of the rest of the movement." -The Press. THE AIRS, BALLADS, FANTASIAS, QUADRILLES, COMPOSED BY HOWARD Glover. ... 8. d. 4 0 4 6 2 6 2 6 2 6 2 6 2 6 3 0 3 0 "Oh! Glorious Age of Chivalry." Duet. For Soprano and Contralto "The Solemn Words his Lips have spoken." Grand Air. For Soprano "The Love you've slighted still is true." Ballad. Sung by Mlle. JENNY BAUR "Stratagem is Woman's Power." Ballad. Sung by Miss EMMA HEYWOOD... "Love is a gentle Thing." Ballad. Sung by Miss EMMA HEYWOOD "A young and artless Maiden." Romance. Sung by Herr REICHARDT "There's Truth in Woman still." Romance. Sung by Herr REICHARDT ... "The Monks were jolly Boys." Ballad. Sung by Herr FORMES "In my Chateau of Pompernik." Aria Buffa. Sung by Herr FORMES New Vocal Music. SI TU SAVAIS. Romance. Composée par M. W. BALFH. 38. BELO ELOVED ONE, NAME THE DAY. Ballad. The Words by JOHN LAB, Esq. The Music by ALFRED MELLON. 2s. 6d. TEMORY. Song. The Poetry by DESMOND RYAN. MEM The Music by ALEXANDER REICHARDT. 3s. HAST THOU NO TEAR FOR ME? Ballad. Words by M. DEIGH. The Music by CIRO PINSUTI. 33. The LEEP AND THE PAST. Canzonet. The Poetry SLE HARRIET POWER. The Music by J. P. KNIGHT. 35. Romanza. The Poetry by MY GENTLE ELODIE. "The above are a few of the prettiest vocal pieces that have appeared during the past publishing season. They are all by well-known and popular composers, of whose talents they are agreeable specimens. Balfe's French romance is in his happiest vein. Our countryman has successfully contended with the Parisian composers on their own ground-witness the reception of his fine operas, Les Quatre Fils Aymon and Le Puits d'Amour, at the Opéra Comique; and in the little song before us he shows how entirely he is at home in the French style. It is tender and passionate, with that infusion of graceful lightness and gaiety which gives the French poetry and music of this class their peculiar charm. Signor Gardoni has sung it in public with delicious effect; but it by no means requires the aid of such a singer to make t charming. Mr. Alfred Mellon's ballad is worthy of that able and eminent musician. The melody is simple and natural, without being trite or commonplace; and the whole composition shows that new and striking effects of modulation and harmony may be produced without setting at defiance (as is too often done) the established principles and rules of art.-Few vocal pieces of the present time have obtained greater popularity than Herr Reichardt's song, "Thou art so near," not only in English, but (by means of its German and French versions) all over the Continent. His new production, Memory,' is of a similar character, and bids fair to have a similar sucMr. Desmond Ryan's verses are elegant, and Reichardt has united them to a melody at once pure, simple, and expressive. Signor Pinsuti's ballad, Hast thou no tear for me?' has been recommended to the attention of the public by the pleasing performance of Mr. Tennant, for whom it was written, and by whom it has been sung at many of the best concerts of the season. Signor Pinsuti, an Italian, has produced an air of Italian grace and beauty, while he has entirely avoided the faults into which foreign composers so often fall in setting English words to music. The melody not only expresses the sentiment conveyed by the poetry, but does not present a single misplaced emphasis or accent-a most important requisite in vocal music. Mr. Knight's canzonet is melodious, flowing, and extremely well fitted for a mezzo-soprano or contralto voice. There is a flaw in one place which dims the clearness of the harmony. In bar 8, page 2, G flat in the melody is accompanied by E natural in the bass, creating a diminished third (or tenth)-an interval very rarely allowed, and not, we think, in the present case. There is much that is masterly in Mr. Land's romanza, and Mr. Santley, for whom it was composed, has sung it with deserved success. We could have wished it had been a little less elaborate; that the flow of the melody had been less disturbed by extraneous modulation; and that the pianoforte accompaniment had been lighter and less loaded with notes. It is a fine song, nevertheless, and not unworthy of the author's well-merited reputation."—The Press, cess. NEW AND REVISED EDITION. Price 12s. THE VOICE AND SINGING (The Formation and Cultivation of the Voice for Singing). ADOLFO FERRARI. "The great and deserved success of this work has brought it, in no long time, to a second edition, carefully revised, and enriched with a number of additional exercises, which greatly increase its value."—Illustrated News. LONDON: DUNCAN DAVISON & Co. 244 Regent Street, W. Just Published, NEW BALLAD, SIX OPERATIC RECITALS for the PIANOFORTE, MLLE Sung with the greatest success by Mile. ADELINA PATTI, for whom it was expressly composed by HOWARD GLOVer. London: DUNCAN DAVISON & Co. 244 Regent Street, W. THENLEY AUCHARDS, Sung with such distinguished success at the CARNARVON HARP OF WALES. Ballad. FESTIVAL, by Mr. LEWIS THOMAS, is published, price 3s. by DUNCAN DAVISON & Co. 244 Regent Street, W. BY IMMANUEL LIEBICH. No. 1. "Freyschütz," dedicated to Miss Catherine M. Pfeil. 2. "Freyschütz," dedicated to Miss Taylor 3. "Norma," dedicated to Miss Katherine Greenhill s. d. 4 0 4 0 4 0 4 0 4. "Norma," dedicated to the pupils of Miss Gilbertson |