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Early Journal Content on JSTOR, Free to Anyone in the World This article is one of nearly 500,000 scholarly works digitized and made freely available to everyone in the world by JSTOR. Known as the Early Journal Content, this set of works include research articles, news, letters, and other writings published in more than 200 of the oldest leading academic journals. The works date from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. We encourage people to read and share the Early Journal Content openly and to tell others that this resource exists. People may post this content online or redistribute in any way for non-commercial purposes. Read more about Early Journal Content at http://about.jstor.org/participate-jstor/individuals/early- journal-content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. 94 THE MUSICAL TIMES. NOW READY (November lst), Part I., Price 3s. 6d. SIR JOHN HAWKINS'S GENERAL HISTORY THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF MUSIC. IT is intendedto issue the workin Ten Parts, price 3s. 6d. each. The whole of the original text will be printed in its integrity; together with the ILLUSTRATIVEWOODCUTS of INSTRUMENTS, &c. (for which more than 200 WOODCUTShave been engraved); the WHOLEof the MUSICAL EXAMPLES in the various ancient and modern notations; and the FAC-SIMILE EXAMPLES of OLD MANUSCRIPTS. In the present age, when public attentionis so extensively directed towardsthe study and practiceof Music,it has been thoughtthat a new editionof Sir John Hawkins'svaluable HISTORY OF THE SCIENCEAND PRACTICEOF Music would prove peculiarly acceptable, as being by far the best history of the Art extant. In this delightfulbook, authoritieshave been consulted and brought together fromvarious librariesand museums,with a diligence in research,and a solicitudealmost affectionatein their collection and arrangement, forming together a mass of the most curious and entertaining inform- ation upon a subject the most enchanting. No pains have been spared to render the work complete. It bears evidence of being a labourof love; of being one of those tasks,which are none to the compiler,-but a delight. The evident pleasurehe takes in his work, reflects itself upon the reader; renderingit light and agreeable,-nothing wearisome,however long and minute. There is evidence of toil, but the perusalis not toilsome; for the author'stoil is so willinglyunder- taken, and so enjoyinglypursued, that the effect upon the reader is unalloyed enjoyment. No amount of care has been deemed too much; and the reader feels grateful for being spared the troubleof seeking, while he luxuriouslyprofits by the result. He sits in his arm-chair,comfort- ably ruminatingthe storesof knowledgewhich have been culled for him fromvarious wide-spread sources, by patient, worthy Sir John; who,-the beauty of it is,-has evidently had as much gratificationin gathering the materialsfor the feast, as the reader finds from the feast itself. Besides the informationcontained in the book, there is abundanceof amusingreading. It was a favoritewith Charles Lamb, who, though no musical authority,was an eminentliterary one, of unsurpassedrefined taste and high judgment. In the shape of notes, there is a fund of anecdote, and a large amountof incidentalmiscellaneous matter, scattered through the work,that pleasantly relieve the gravermain theme. Anythingentertaining, that can by possibilitybe linked on to the subject of music, is easily and chattilyintroduced ; as though the author and his readerwere indulging in a cheerful gossip by the way. We have, in quaint succession,such things as that romanticlove-passage of GiuffredoRudello, the troubadourpoet; or that wondrousaccount of the MoorishAdmirable Crichton, Alpharabius,-which is like a page out of the 'ArabianNights ;' or that naive detail of bluff King Harry'sfancy for my Lord Cardinal'sminstrels, and of his setting off with them for a certain nobleman'shouse where was a shrineto whichhe had vowed a pilgrimage,and where he spent the night in dancingto the soundof the minstrels'playing. In conclusion,it may be said, that the presentEdition is what a new one by Sir John Hawkins himself would have been; since all the additional manuscript notes which adorn the author's own copy in the British JMuseum,are inserted in this Edition now presented to the public. It has been determinednot to increasethe price of the workby the additionof the medallion Portraits of Musical Composers,which were in the original edition; but to print them in a supplementaryvolume which may be purchasedoptionally. They consist of upwardsof sixty portraits; and J. A. Novello has been fortunateenough to obtain the original copper-plates engravedfor the quartoedition. J. Alfred Novello respectfullyinvites his musical friends to aid him in his arduousunder- taking by sendingtheir names as subscribers,stating whether they would receive their copies in partsas they appear,or when the workis completed. London Sacred Music Warehouse, J. ALFRED NOVELLO, 69, Dean-street, Soho, and 24, Poultry; and in New York, at 389, Broadway. THE MUSICAL TIMES. 95 In One Volume,price zl. as. to Subscribers;Separate Vocal Parts, Cathedral Services Edited by Rev. F. Ouseley, Bart., continued. about Ios. 6d. each. VII. TOMKINS, in C.-Vcnite, Te Deum, Jubilate, Kyrie The Work will be published as soon as 150 Subscribers' eleeson, Sanctus, Creed, Magnificat, and Nunc dimittis. names are received. Any unequal number of Separate Vocal **" This is the first piece in a publication called "Musica Deo Parts may be subscribed for-as 4 Sopranos, 2 Altos, I Tenor, Sacra, et Ecclesiae Anglicanae," London, 1668; now very scarce. The Venite of this Service has never been Scored and 3 Basses. before. VIII. JOHN CHURCH, in F.-Te Deum, Jubilate, Kyrie eleeson, Sanctus, Creed, Magnificat, and Nunc dimittis. #Tatetrral ?C bitc , *X* This is rather an elaborate composition: it shews a great SET TO MUSIC BY fertility of invention, and proves its Author to have been a great master of the resources of counterpoint. ENGLISH COMPOSERS, IX. ROGERS, in E minor.-Te Deum, Jubilate, Kyrie SELECTED AND EDITED BY eleeson, Sanctus, Creed, Magnificat, and Nunc dimittis. *** This Service is very little known. I do not believe a com- THE REV. SIR FREDERICK OUSELEY, BART., plete set of single parts exists in any of our Cathedrals; but I have succeeded in collecting the different voice parts from various M.A. & MUS. BAC., OXON. quarters-all but the 2nd Treble in the verses, which I have attempted to supply, to the best of my ability, in default of It is proposed to publish a series of musical Services, which a copy.-Ed. have remained in MS. in the various Cathedral books, or X. in F which have not hitherto been included in any important ROGERS, major.-Te Deum, Jubilate, Magnificat, and Nunc dimittis. collection. The Services have been selected rather from been found useful in the Cathedral Churches, where .** This is a very pleasing Service of Dr. Rogers, and reminds having one, in of his favorite one in D. It has to be known to their use has been than as elaborate or curious style, only frequent, spe- be appreciated. It is taken from the books at St. George's Chapel, cimens of musical composition. at Windsor. Ten Services (instanced more particularly below) will form the First Volume, in Vocal Score, with separateAccompaniment more than to for the Organ, occupying 300 PAGES.-Price, In One Volume, bound,price Il. is. to Subscribers. Subscribers,21. 2s. J. ALFRED NOVELLO has the honor to announce to be should a sufficient The separateVocal Parts will engraved, the friends and admirers of the Composer, that he has been number of the subscribersrequire them-price, about Ios. 6d. entrusted with the publication of the undermentioned Services each Part. Subscribers'names can be forwarded direct to for and Anthems, which he proposes to publish by subscription. The Mr. Alfred at the London Sacred Publisher, J. Novello, The Work is in the engraver's hands, and will be published and Music Warehouse, 69, Dean-street, Soho, z4, Poultry. as soon as the subscription list numbers x5o names.-The Separate Vocal Parts will also be engraved should 150 copies THE TEN FORMING VOL. 1. SERVICES, be subscribed for; price, about 5s. 6d. each part. May be moreparticularly describedas follows:- Subscribers' names received at The London Sacred Music and I. FARRANT, in D.-Te Deum, Jubilate, Magnificat, and Warehouse, 69, Dean-street, Soho, 24, Poultry. Nunc dimittis. %* This is a short Service for four voices, Full throughout, without repetition of the words. It is copied from the books of the terbites & ant emn, at St. James's. It is a of the use ChapelRoyal very early specimen In VOCAL with ORGAN of the Jubilate, which was not usually set in Farrant's time; SCORE, ACCOMPANIMENT, but internal evidence leaves little doubt but that the music was COMPOSED BY THE Farrant. composed by Rev. Sir FREDERICK II. The Rev. R. CREYGHTON, in B flat.-Te Deum, OUSELEY,Bart, M.A. AND MUS. BAC., OXON. Jubilate, Magnificat, and Nunc dimittis. ** This Service is taken from the choir books at Wells. It is The Volumewill contain:- well for common use in a Cathedral. short and easy, and suited Service in B minor-Te It appears to combine all that melodious sweetness which Dr. Deum, 4 voices; Benedictus, 4 v.; Creyghton is so justly admired for, without any of the difficult and Kyrie eleeson, 4 v.; Nicene Creed, 4 v.

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