Clairette. By Ernst J. Reiter.—A fascinating little dance for piano. The delicacy of subject and treatment suggests a lady’s composition in every page.
Bouquets de Mélodies. Pour violon, avec accompagnement de piano. Par Gustav Merkel.—We have received No. 1, a gavotte in C, a well-written trifle by this scholarly German organist and composer.
Robert Cocks and Co.
While we Dream. A song of moderate compass, possessing much musical feeling, and the originality that we are now led to expect from Mr. Addison. A curious, not very vocal, effect is produced by the diminished fourth, in the line, “At our feet long shadows lie.”
The Old See-Saw is a song of the conventional “Swing, swing” type, but brightly written, and likely to add to Miss Annie Armstrong’s reputation as a popular writer of small things.
J. Curwen and Sons.
A most important addition to the large number of teaching manuals already published is the Child Pianist, divided into grades and steps, and combining in a thoughtful and systematic way a little theory and a little practice, never forcing a child, and never letting the head get in front of the hands or vice versâ. Accompanying these steps with their capital duets for pupil and teacher, by J. Kinross, written after the manner of Lebert and Stark’s book, we have a Teacher’s Guide to the Child Pianist, an assistance to young teachers, and an essential explanation to the exercises and method. We cannot too highly estimate the care and management displayed by Mrs. J. S. Curwen, the authoress of these valuable works.
F. Pitman and Co.
We do not generally notice dance music, but must mention with praise two compositions of this class by Evelyn Hastings, really charming and graceful as piano pieces, for little entr’actes at readings, or between charades; they are the Onda Waltz and the Postscript Polka, the latter being especially happy in its construction.