"

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Abt, Franz, His compositions,.....Cocks's Misc. ii. 195
• Account Rendered-Our First Year.
.ii. 203
Acoustic Architecture,...U. ii. 17, 25, 34, 43, 49, 65, 81,
105, 113
"C's" View of, and Reply, ii. 145, 170
Alboni, Madame,...i. 76, 95, 142, 183, 191'; ii, 14, 21, 67,
103, 119, 142
(See Concerts, Operas, Correspondence, & Intelligence.)
Alboni, and the other great Contraltos,.. By Scudo, i. 161
Allegri, Gregorio,....

... 115
..i. 174

American Musical Fund Society,.
American Voices,.

A. W. T. i. 169, 179
Angri, Elena,.....
..i. 194
Art, Universality in,..Henry James's Lectures, i. 105,
114, 124
...ii. 179

Auber, D. F. E., Account of,........

..i. 147
..i. 86
..ii. 126

Bach, J. S., and his Works, by Dr. Marx, i. 203; Head
of the "Thomas School" in Leipsic, 43; His Con-
certo for three pianos, ii. 174.
Ballenstedt, Musical Festival at,.
Bands, Our Military,.......
Bartlett, John, A Veteran gone..
Beethoven, Anecdotes of, 1. 63, 147, 185; ii. 20, &c. &c.
B. and his Third Symphony, by A. W. T., i. 9;
Ninth Symphony played in London, i. 78; Last
Quartets played in Paris, 14; B. and Prince N. Ga-
litzin, i. 195, ii. 57; Carl Czerny's relations to, ii. 1;
Pilgrimage to his tomb, by A. W. T. i. 89; his Pas-
toral Symphony, i. 116; Ninth Symphony heard in
London by L. Mason, ii. 12; his Sonata Pathetique
arranged for Orchestra, 59; his Fidelio, ii. 43; his
Ruinen von Athen, 74, 82, 93, 182, 188; hurrying
his music, i. 174; his Ninth Symphony, (by Ortlepp,)
ii. 130; Do. 133; Do. Programme to, by R. Wagner,
137; Do. 141, 150; His Mount of Olives," or
"Engedi," 141, 157, 182, 187; his 7th Symphony, ii.
154, 158; Periods of his Compositions, by Czerny,
ii. 163; his Works arranged, ii. 196; his "Heroic
Symphony," ii. 197.

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Bellini, Vincenzo, By H. T. Tuckerman,. ...i. 153
Character of his Music, .
....i. 98, 156
Berlin, Opera Statistics of, ii. 59; Academy of Music,
i. 170. (See also Intelligence.)
Berlioz, Hector, his "Benvenuto Cellini."..i. 47, 52, 123
Birmingham Festival,..........i. 158, 175, 199, 207; ii. 7
Biscaccianti, Madame, in California,....i. 39, ii. 23, 126
Blow, Dr. John, Preface to his " Amphion Anglicus,"
i. 129
Boieldieu, Short Account of,......
.ii. 172
Books and Journals, briedly noticed.-Howadji in Syria,
The Knickerbocker, The Favorite, To-Day, Mass.
Register, i. 47; Ware's Lectures on Allston, 140;
Meyer's Universum, 148; Illustrated Magazine of
Art, ii. 126, 156; Painters of all Nations, 156.
Booth, the Actor: Obituary Notice,.... .....G. ii. 78
Bosio, Angiolina, A Reminiscence,. ....J. S. D. i. 12
Boston, Music in,....
...i. 4, ii. 101, 133
(See Concerts, Operas, Intelligence, &c.)
Boston Music Hall, ....... 3, 118, ii. 45, 53, 61, 71
Cherubini, Accounts of,..
..ii. 161, 172
Chopin, Frederic: by F. Liszt,...i. 17, 25, 36, 41, 50, 57,

Christmas,..
Church Modes, or Tones,..

Church Music,.....

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65, 73, 81
.ii. 94
.i. 20, 29
............................................i. 186, 189
46 in Frankfort,..
.L. Mason, i. 164
Cincinnati, Music in, i. 115. (See Intelligence.)
Classical. Use of the term in Music,..
.i. 100
Clauss, Wilhelmina,.....
..i. 14, 37, 111, 119
Clerical Amateurship,.....Mus. World & Times, ii. 78
CONCERTS IN BOSTON:

Complimentary to Signora de Ribas,.

Ole Bull,.

.......

.1. 38
.69, 77
Summer Afternoon Concerts of the Germania Serenade
Band....... 86, 95, 101, 111, 126, 135, 142, 182; ii. 6, 15, 29
Miss Celini Fairfield's,.
.i. 198
Camilla Urso's,.
.ii. 6, 15

INDEX.

.ii. 13, 39, 47, 183

Mlle. Caroline Lehmann's,..
Mme. Alboni's,

Mme. Sontag's,.

ii. 21, 30
.ii. 46, 54, 63
Opening of the Boston Music Hall,.
.ii. 61
Sacred Concert of Mme. Sontag and Handel and
Haydn Society,..
.ii. 63
Musical Education Society,.
ii 66, 102, 197
Germania Musical Society, ii. 71, 85, 102, 118, 134, 142, 150,
166, 183, 197
Mendelssohn Quintette Club, i. 14; ii. 71, 86, 102, 117, 134
142, 149, 183, 197, 203
.ii. 78, 94. 110, 125, 142, 158
.ii 94, 110, 151, 157, 166, 183
.ii. 102, 118, 134, 174, 204

Musical Fund Society,.
Handel and Haydn Society,.
Otto Dresel's Soirées,..
Alfred Jaell's,..
.ii. 124
Miss Elise Hensler's Benefit,.
.ii. 142
Beethoven's Choral Symphony,.
.ii. 150
Conservatory of Music, at Leipsic... ...L. M. i. 19, 44
at Paris,.. ..... i. 49, ii, 187
Contralto Singers, The great,....From P. Scudo, i. 161
Contrapuntists and Melodists, From Oulibicheff, i. 10, 18
Conventions, Musical,..........................i. 149, 150, 157, 165, 172
CORRESPONDENCE:

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New York.-From "HAFIZ "-The rival operas; Mme Thil-
lon, i. 2. Thillon; Philharmonic Concert, 28. Eisfeld's
Quartet Soirées; Casolani; Adelina Patti, 52. German
Glee Club Festival, 93.
Editorial.-Mme. Goldschmidt's Farewell Concerts, i. 53, 61
From "X" and "*"-Sontag, Alboni, Paul Jullien, &c.
ii. 5, 6.

From A. W. T.-Philharmonic Concert; Beethoven's 8th
Symphony; Gade's Overture, &c. ii. 51.
From C. P. C.-Herr Tonwacker's Studio, ii. 122.
Germany. From L. MASON-The Conservatory at Leipsic, i.
19. The "Thomas School;" M. Hauptmann; Chorus-
Singing in Leipsic, 43. Concert of the pupils at the Con-
servatory, 44

From C. C. P-Muiic in Leipsic; Mlle. Lehmann; Operas of
David, Flotow, Weber; Organ Music; Gewandhaus Con-
certs. ii. 14. Gluck and Wagner; Schumann; Gade;
Mozart's Operas; Dreyschock; Moscheles, ii. 110.
From J. C. D. P-Gewandhaus Concerts in Leipsic; Schu-
mann's "Genoveva," and Symphony in B flat; an orches-
tra rehearsal.

London.-From C. C. P-The Opera; Chamber music;
Sivori, Joachim; Israel in Egypt; Mme. Pleyel; Choral
Symphony; Berlioz, i. 108.
Paris-From C. C. P., Halevy's "Juif Errant," i. €3-From
W. S. C., Opera
Rome. From a private letter.-A Quartet by a Bostonian ;
Private Theatricals, i. 29.
Florence.-From J. K. S. ii. 203.

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Cuzzoni, Signora, The Lind of her time,... Foster, ii. 67
Czerny, Carl. His Piano-forte School,
........i. 91
"On his relations to Beethoven,........ii. 1
Davies, Cecilia,...................... Lond. Harmonicon, ii. 44, 69
De la Grange, Mme.....
....i. 85
"Diarist," A Complaint and an Apology Concerning.
ii. 10, 18
Diary of a Composer, Sketch from, by Mme. Kinkel,
.i. 26
Trans. by A. W. T........
Don Giovanni, Overture to, analyzed,.. Oulibicheff, i i. 9
Eisfeld's Quartet Soirées, i. 22. (See New York In-
telligence.)
"Emily Magpie," Letter from,..
Encores in Concerts,.

England, Statistics of Music in..........
"Excellent Art of Musick," The,....

FINE ARTS:

The Dusseldorf Gallery,.
Ary Scheffer's "Dead Christ,"

..ii. 68
..ii. 189
.....ii 3
Preface to
Amphion Anglicus," i. 129

Brackett's Group and Mr. Greenough's Letters..

Academy of Design in New York.

.i. 3, 62
.i. 3
..i. 12
Mus. Times, i. 26
N. E. School of Design for Women; A Musical Seal, i. 94, 110
Crawford's Virginia Monument,. German Paper, i. 100
Ware's Lectures on Allston,.
..140
Crawford's Sculpture,.
.141
Death of A J. Downing,.
.141
Sepulchral Monument by J. Carew.
Bust of Hon. Horace Mann, by 1. Carew,.
Meyer's Universum,..

.148

.148
.148
.149

The Walhalla,.

66 FROM MY DIARY."

Funeral Marches; Notices of Beethoven more sentimental
than true; Woodbury's Absalom, i. 188.-Concerts at New-
port; Trashy programmes; Gungl's abuse of us; Singing
hymns in the German manner"; Indian music; A new
Psalm-book, 196-About "everybody learning to read
music in Germany"; Czerny's anecdotes of Beethoven; a
"Sacred Concert" programine! 204-Little Urso; Sontag;
Overture to "Martha;" Schubert's "only" Symphony;
A singer's harvest, ii. 13-Mr. Wyzaker at Sontag's Con-
cert; Old and new," a few dates, 20-The "gloomy 27
Beethoven; "Fidelio," 28-How should orchestras and
choruses be arranged on the stage? 34-Dr. Franklin and
the Harmonica; Cecilia Davies, 44-Drumming in New
York streets; Notices of Balfe; how Weber wrote for the
voice; Ludwig Fischer, 53-Rode; Haydn's Remains;
Music at Webster funeral procession; Dialogue about two
musical journals, 60-Sontag's Dress Rehearsal; Philhar-
monic Rehearsal; Gade; Mendelssohn cut into psalm-
tunes; the Misses' Tournay, 69-Paul Jullien and young
Mozarts; Quicksteps at funerals; Anecdote of Sontag, 75
-Macfarren's Notice of Beethoven's "Ruins of Athens ;"
93.-Alfred Jaell; " Positive, comparative, superlative;"
Alboni's "Sacred" Concert, 124.-Zeuner's psalmody;
Boston Music Hall; Choral Symphony; American vocal
schools, 140.-" Engedi," "Choral Symphony," &c. 149.-
Rhythm for psalmody; Sontag and the clergy, 156
Onslow; Salomon, 164.-Beethoven's 7th Symphony;
Yankee Doodle be-devilled, 173.-The Sisters Milanollo,
180.-" Arrangements" from Beethoven, 196.

.H. F. Chorley, ii. 130
Gade, Niels W..
Genesis of Musical Sounds,. ..E. H. i. 186, 194, 202
(See Mathematics.)
Germania Musical Society, Season of 1851-2,....... 6
(See Concerts.)
Germania Serenade Band,.......ii. 95. (See Concerts.)
German Glee Clubs, Jubilee of, in New York,... 85, 93
"in Boston,..
.i. 142, ii. 86
Germano-phobia.....
.ii. 4
Germany and Belgium, Music in, (1845).. Chorley, 11.
106, 114, 123, 132, 139
Germany, The Part-Songs of,.....H. W. Chorley, i. 92
Music trade in.........ii. 68 (See Intelligence.)
Gluck, Ritter, from the German of Hoffmann, i. 106, 113
"and his Operas,...

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"and Piccini,..

Goldschmidt, Otto,..

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......................1. 125, 133
...... 145
...i. 13
Mme. Jenny Lind, her last Concerts in New
York,..
..........i. 46, 53, 61
....ii. 190
....ii. 143, 154, 158
Grisi, in Norma and La Prophète, London Musical
World,..
........i. 68, 115
Gungl, Josef, on Musical taste in America,........ii. ¦

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Absurd Rumors of....
Gottschalk, Moritz,....

......

..i.

Haberbier, M., the pianist,.
Halevy's Juif Errant,"

.ne
...... 52, the
Handel and Haydn Society, Miscellaneous Cone may
April, 1852..
...i. 14. (See.
Handel and his "Messiah,". ........J. S. she were

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...by Zur, in her
Handel Society, The, in London,....Lon.
Harmonica, Dr. Franklin's Account of tall; that she
Harmony, The Kingdom of,......
Gat is said by
Harper, Thomas, Notice of,..
Harvard Musical As ociation, Libraaublic in general,
Haydn, Joseph, His Life and Music,..

art only.

nds her, aban-

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BY C. P. CRANCH.

Surely there is a soul within these strings,

So deeply thrills my own, when 'mid thy chords, Moving with eager hands, my whole frame rings With inner music, far transcending words. As after absence long I open thee,

Dear friend, and late here linger at thy side, To conjure up thy hidden harmony,

A boundless joy runs through me, as a tide Filling the sandy channels and low shores Left by the ebb of feelings that depart, And the dull slime of tame monotonous hours. Thy dear delicious voice, Harp of my heart, Hath won me back to thoughts of noble height, And wrapped me in a reverie of delight.

Jenny Lind's Devotion to her Art.

The prime donne of the opera are seldom great musicians. Many of them have been well trained in the use of the vocal organs, and in the style and spirit of their peculiar line of singing; they know their oft-repeated rôles by heart and what life to infuse into them; but to most of the immortal creations of musical genius they are utter strangers. They have had no deep, broad musical culture. The Swedish songstress, however, is an exception. No one knew the full measure of her power, and wherein she was greater than all others, until he knew her wide range of studies and her many-sided intimacy with all the styles and masters of her Art. She is a musician as well as a singer; with her whole soul she has studied Music, in all its noblest illustrations, as well as the mere art of giving effect to a certain limited range of operatic parts.

NO. 1.

BENEDICT, who has been of late in Naples, preparing for the press a book of travels in America, of which he has contributed some chapters to La France Musicale, ascribes the secret of her triumphs to the fact "that the great singer makes a conscience of her Art." We translate what follows:

"The child, brought up and fashioned in the school of adversity, and finding in music all the consolations which a cruel destiny had refused to her; the young girl, who, thanks to the care of her excellent masters and friends, Berg and Lindblad, learned in good season to identify herself with the masterpieces of the great composers; and finally JENNY LIND, at the apogee of her glory, shunning the world and society, and knowing, loving, dreaming nothing but her Art, bad certainly some powerful elements of success.

"It would not be easy, in our time, to meet any cantatrice whomsoever, who could play and sing to you from memory, from the first note to the last, the Armida of Gluck, the Chateau de Montenero of Dalayrac, the Vestale of Spontini, the Deux Journees of Cherubini, the operas of Mozart, Weber and Meyerbeer, the oratorios of Handel and Haydn, all the melodies of Mendelssohn, of Franz Schubert, of Schumann, the Mazurkas and Etudes of Chopin, without counting a very extensive dramatic repertoire, comprising the scores of Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi.

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'It would perhaps be yet more difficult to name an artiste, who could appreciate and comprehend these great schools, become penetrated with their genius, preserve their local colors, and appropriate to herself their styles. It would be almost impossible to find a musicienne, who could at sight decipher the most difficult pieces, retain melodies of an irregular and unusual rhythm, and repeat them, after several days, as if she had created them herself. Mdlle. Lind unites these precious qualities. But this is not all. The grand thing, I repeat it, is that she makes a conscience of her art; that in the smallest city of Germany or of America, she will put the same zeal, the same verve into the execution of the airs she may have selected, or the roles she may have undertaken, that she would if she were making her debut in the Salle Ventadour, in her Majesty's Theatre, or in Tripler Hall; that she never concerns herself about what is said by critics, friends, enemies, or the public in general, but thinks of her art, and of her art only.

"Detached from what surrounds her, aban