parts of the kingdom, when the fiddler thinks his young couple have had music enough, he makes his instrument speak out two notes which all understand to say kiss her."

THE Partridge run. A. D. 1796.-MISS SEWARD'S Letters, vol. 4, p. 244.

GALLINI'S Treatise on Dancing.-M. Review, vol. 26, pp. 347-9-56.

A.D. 1764. THE opera of Castor and Pollux at Paris. "On admire le dernier ballet, qui vraiment est de génie. C'est le systême de Copernic mis en action; il est très bien exécuté: reste à savoir, pourquoi le systême de Copernic dans cet opéra.”BACHAUMONT. Mus. Lec. vol. 2, p. 14.

THE English nuns at Ghent told Mrs. Carter that country dances were one of their amusements, and that they had the newest from England.—Mem. vol. 1, p. 264.

FROBERGER, organist to the Emperor Ferdinand III. is said to have represented in an allemand the passage of Count Thurn over the Rhine, and the danger he and his army were in, by twenty-six cataracts, or falls in notes; which, it seems, he was the better able to do, having been present."— Ibid. vol. 4, p. 183.

Kuhnau represented in a sonata David's victory over Goliah.

Buxtehude represented the nature of the planets in a series of lessons for the harpsichord.

And Handel himself imitated the buzzing of the flies and the hopping of the frogs in the plagues of Egypt. — SIR J. HAWKINS, vol. 1, p. iii.

"ARISTOXENUS expressly asserts that the foundation of ingenuous manners, and a regular and decent discharge of the offices

of civil life, are laid in a musical education."-Ibid. p. xxvi.

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"LUTHER says in an Epistle, scimus musicam dæmonibus etiam invisam et intolerabilem esse:' and Dr. Wetenhall applies this passage to the music of our church, and on the authority thereof pronounces it to be such as no devil can stand against."-Ibid. p. lxi.

"THE Pythagoreans," says STANLEY, “define music an apt composition of contraries, and an union of many, and consent of differents; for it not only co-ordinates rythms and modulations, but all manner of systems. God is the reconciler of things discordant, and this is his chiefest work, according to music and medicine, to reconcile enmities. In music consists the agreement of all things, and aristocracy of the universe. For what is harmony in the world, in a city is good government, in a family, temperance.—Ibid. p. 170.

METASTASIO On the corruption of music, and the effect of open theatres on that of the ancients, and consequently on church music.-Tom. 10, p. 362-3.

"THERE is somewhere in infinite space," says CowPER," a world that does not roll within the precincts of mercy; and as it is reasonable, and even scriptural to suppose that there is music in heaven, in those dismal regions perhaps the reverse of it is found; tones so dismal as to make woe itself more insupportable, and to acuminate even despair."-HAYLEY'S Life, vol. 2, p.

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SEE in MACROBIUS, Som. Scip. for a passage to prove that music " persuades to clemency and heals diseases."

AN anonymous discourse upon the analogy between the seven planets and the chords included in the musical septenary, says, "that in the motion of the Earth F is made; in that of the Moon, A; Mercury, B; Venus, C; the Sun, D; Mars, E; Jupiter, F; and Saturn, G; and that here the musical measure is truly formed."-HAWKINS, History of Music, vol. 2, p. 215.

"THERE was once a musical herald who undertook to show the analogy between music and coat armour."—Ibid. p. 247.

"PIETRO FRANCESCO VALENTINI gave Kircher a canon which he called Nodus Salomones; which Kircher at first per

ceived might be sung by ninety-six voices, twenty in each part, treble, counter tenor, tenor and bass; and yet there are only four notes in the canon; but it is to be observed, that to introduce £ regular variety of harmony, some of the ninety-six are to sing all longs, some all breves, some semi-breves, some minims, some semi-minims.

"He afterwards found out that this same canon might be sung by 512 voices, or, which is the same thing, distributed into 128 choirs; and afterwards proceeded to show how it may be sung by 12,200,000 voices; nay, by an infinite number. Then he says the verse in the Apocalypse, xiv. 3, is made clear, and may be interpreted literally. For he shows that this canon may be so disposed as to be sung by 144,000 voices.-Ibid. p. 376.

LUTHER spent the greater part of the night before he appeared to give an account of his doctrine to the diet at Worms in playing on the lute," in order to compose and calm his mind."-Ibid. p. 444.

"FRANCIS I. sent a band of musicians to his ally Solyman II. Solyman received them graciously, and had three concerts at his palace, in presence of all his court. Then having observed the effect of the music upon himself, he sent them back with a handsome reward, but ordered their instruments to be broken, and prohibited them from settling in his empire, on pain of death. He fully believed it to be a scheme of the French king's for diverting him by this amusement from the business of war, 'just as the Greeks sent the Persians the game of chess for the same purpose.' And this he said to the French ambassador."-Ibid. p. 481, N.

"THOMAS CAMPION, who was a doctor of physic, and published a work upon music, justified himself by the example of Galen, who, he says, became an expert musician, and would needs apply all the proportions of music to the uncertain motions of the pulse."-Ibid. p. 24.

EFFECTS OF MUSIC.-" IN the Repertoire Medico Chirurgicale of Piedmont, for June, 1834, Dr. Brofferio relates a case illustrative of the morbid effects of music. A woman twenty-eight years of age, of a robust constitution, married, but without children, attended a ball which was given on occasion of a rural fête in her native village. It so happened that she had never heard the music of an orchestra before; she was charmed with it, and danced for three days successively, during which the festivity lasted. But though the ball was at an end, the woman continued to hear the music; whether she ate, drank, walked, or went to bed, still was she haunted by the harmonies of the orchestra. She was sleepless, her digestive organs began to suffer, and ultimately her whole system was deranged. Various remedies were tried to drown the imaginary music, but the more

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"A CURIOUS and beautiful method of observation devised by Chladni, consists in the happy device of strewing sand over the surfaces of bodies in a state of sonorous vibration, and marking the figures it assumes. This has made their motions susceptible of ocular examination, and has been lately much improved on and varied in its application by M. Savart.

"Sound is a subject the investigation of which promises important consequences in its bearing on others, and especially, through the medium of strong analogies on that of light."— HERSCHEL on Natural Philosophy, p. 289-90.

"THE doctors of our theology say that God made the world by number, measure, and weight; some for weight say tune, and peradventure better."-PUTTENHAM, p. 53.

"I HAVE known good men that were skilled in music, and much delighted in it, and yet had a conceit that it was unlawful in a psalm or holy exercise. I so much differed from them, that I scarce cared for it anywhere else; and if it might not be holily used, it should never have been used by me."-BAXTer, Restituta, vol. 3, p. 187.

"IF it be true, as Athenæus says, that Pindar wrote an ode in which he purposely omitted the letter s, it must have been because it was designed to be sung."- Curiosities of Literature, vol. 2, p. 62.

"It is a received maxim with all composers of music, that nothing is so melodious as nonsense. Manly sense is too harsh and stubborn to go through the numberless divisions and subdivisions of modern music, and to be trilled forth in crotchets and demiquavers. For this reason thought is so cautiously sprinkled over a modern song, which it is the business of the singer to warble into sentiment.". Connossieur, No. 72, vol. 2, p. 136.

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POCKRICH and his musical glasses. He perished in the fire which broke out at Hamlin's Coffee House, Cornhill, 10 Nov. 1759.

See his whole strange history, Monthly Review, vol. 24, pp. 14-19.

"SENESINO and Farinelli when in England together, being engaged at different theatres on the same night, had not an opportunity of hearing each other; till, by one of those sudden stage revolutions which frequently happen, yet are always unexpected, they were both employed to sing on the same stage. Senesino had the part of a furious tyrant to represent, and Farinelli that of an unfortunate hero in chains; but in the course of the first song, he so softened the obdurate heart of the enraged tyrant, that Senesino, forgetting his stage | character, ran to Farinelli and embraced him in his own."-BURNEY's Francis Ruly, Monthly Review, vol. 45, p. 340.

Farinelli confirmed the truth of this anecdote to him.

"In the Hong-fan, or Sublime Rule, a chapter of the Chou-king, the elements and powers of nature are expressed by numbers; the tones of music correspond with the seasons and months, with the duties of morality and the ceremonies of Chinese religion, and music is made the basis of all the sciences, and more especially of morals and politics."-Monthly Review, vol. 58, p. 537. French Mem. of the R. Acad.