Old and New Volume 7 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...agreeably as by Gounod. The graceful running accompaniment is more difficult than the song. Esmeralda. 4. D min. (C to E). W. C. Levey 50 "Where is the Little Gypsy's home?" W. C Levey.... 50 A fascinating gypsy song for a contralto; the tempo a real bolero. Key changes several times. Taking for a concert-song, and equally pleasing, if well sung, for the parlor. Sands o'Dee. A min. (AtoD).3. L. H. Southard....30 One more to add to the few really good ballads for contralto. Pathetic, as it must needs be to suit Kingsley's words so sweet, so sad. A slight misprint in the closing chord needs correction: it should be C natural, not C sharp. Thinking and Dreaming. D. (D to G). 3. Tours....40 A genuine love-song for mezzo soprano. The melody pleasing, and easily learned; the accompaniment suitable, and not difficult. Votful Variations. (Ah Voiis dirai-je) from the opera Le Toreador. G. 6. A. Adam..60 The theme is familiar to every child as "Haste thee, Winter, haste away;" but the variations are exceedingly florid and difficult, with trills and roulades compassing C in alt. Quite impossible, save to a very flexible, well-trained voice. G. D. Russell & Co., 126 Tremont Street, Boston. 15 Inventions a 3 voix. J. Sebastian Bach $1.00 A fine reprint of a well-known work. Several years ago, some numbers were published separately, or in other combinations, by the same house: with this exception we have been dependent on the foreign editions. The clear, beautiful type, with the careful correctness always characteristic of the issues from Russell & Co., make this edition most welcome tq all lovers of John Sebastian Bach. To those unfamiliar with his writings for the piano, we would say, that the "Inventions" are a suite of fifteen s...