William Barclay Squire

“ Her success in Leipzig was followed by several concert tours in France and Holland, in both of which countries Miss Dolby established her reputation as a singer of the first rank. In 1860 she married M. Prosper Sainton, the eminent violinist, and ten years later she retired from public life. In 1872 Mme. Sainton opened her Vocal Academy, at which she has successfully trained many excellent artists in the admirable school of pure vocalisation, of which she is herself so distinguished an example. ”

“ According to the rules adopted, the constitution of the new Academy was to be modelled upon the British Institution. The king was announced as the principal Patron, the government was to consist of a committee of twenty-five Directors and a sub-committee of nine subscribers, and the school was to be supported by subscriptions and donations. There was also to be a Board, consisting of the Principal and four professors, and the number of pupils was not to exceed forty boys and forty girls, to be admitted between the ages of 10 and 15, and all to be boarded in the establishment. ”

“ The present custom is to have two concerts of chamber and choral music at the Academy, and one orchestral concert at St. James's Hall every term. From 1828 to 1831 operatic performances were given in public by the students, but since then they have been discontinued, the performances of the operatic class being held privately once or twice in each term. There is orchestral and choral practice twice a week throughout the year, at which pupils have the opportunity of hearing their own instrumental or vocal compositions and of performing concertos and songs with orchestral accompaniments. ”

“ The most complete collection of rounds and catches is that published by Warren in 32 monthly and yearly numbers, from 1763 to 1794, which contains over 800 compositions, including many admirable specimens by Purcell, Blow, and other masters of the English school. It is to be regretted that they are too often disfigured by an obscenity of so gross a nature as to make them now utterly unfit for performance. The Round has never been much cultivated by foreign composers. ”

“ Sainton has of late years appeared before the world as a composer. Her cantatas 'The Legend of St. Dorothea,' and 'The Story of the Faithful Soul,' produced respectively at St. James's Hall on June 14, 1876, and Steinway Hall on June 19, 1879, have been performed in the provinces and the colonies with unvaried success. Mme. Sainton has also written many ballads and songs, and is (1881) engaged upon a work of more importance than she has yet attempted. ”

“ The Siciliana is generally written in 6–8, but sometimes in 12–8 time, and is usually in a minor key. In the bar of six quavers, the first note is usually a dotted quaver, and the fourth a crotchet, followed by two semiquavers. The Siciliana is sometimes in one movement, but usually ends with a repetition of the first part. It should be played rather quickly, but not so fast as the Pastorale, care being taken not to drag the time and to avoid all strong accentuation, smoothness being an important characteristic of this species of composition. ”

“ Committees were appointed at Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, and Aberdeen; the Duke of Buccleuch was elected President, Sir Herbert Oakeley, Vice-President ex-officio, and an influential list of Vice-Presidents was announced, in addition to a Council with the Earl of Rosebery as chairman. The Society is still (1882) not sufficiently advanced to begin practical work, but according to the prospectus, its purpose will be to promote music in Scotland by maintaining professional orchestras, conferring scholarships, organising concerts, and aiding poor musicians and their families. ”

“ In 1837 so great was her promise that she was elected a King's Scholar, although her voice was still weak and not fully developed. She remained at the Academy for five years, and after leaving was elected an honorary member of the institution. ”

“ During the next ten years he was organist at various churches in Bristol and Clifton, at the same time acting as deputy at the Cathedral. In 1870 he was appointed organist to the Colston Hall. Bristol, where he started weekly recitals of classical and popular music, and in 1876 succeeded Mr. Corfe as organist to the Cathedral. During the last five years, Mr. Riseley has devoted his energies to the improvement of orchestral music in Bristol, where he has now collected an excellent orchestra of fifty players. ”

“ During the greater part of his life he lived in the parish of St. Michael's, Cornhill: he had nine children, most of whom survived him and settled in the same parish, where his descendants remained until the 18th century, when some of them are found in that of St, James, Clerkenwell. His wife's name was Jane, and he was probably married about 1584. The title-page of the first Book of Musica Transalpina has been already given (vol. ii, p. 416a) ”

“ Not dancers, but mourners: not laughers, but weepers; whose tune is Lachrymæ, whose musicke, sighes for sinne; who know no other Cinqua-pace but this to Heaven, to goe mourning all the day long for their iniquities; to mourne in secret like Doves, to chatter like Cranes for their owne and others sinnes.' The following example of a Cinque-pace is given by Wolfgang Caspar Printz, in his 'Phrynis Mitilenæus, oder Satyrischer Componist' (Dresden, 1696) , as a specimen of 'Trichonum Iambicum.' A longer example will be found in Dauney's edition of the 15th-century Skene MS. (Edinburgh, 1838) . ”

“ The number of bars is unequal, and the music generally begins on the third or fourth beat of the bar. The following example is from the 3rd Part of Henry Playford's 'Apollo's Banquet' (6th edition, 1690) . The same tune occurs in 'The Dancing Master,' but in that work the bars are incorrectly divided. ”

“ SOCIETY, THE MUSICAL ARTISTS', founded in 1874 'to encourage living musicians by giving performances of their compositions,' consists of a President (the Duke of Beaufort) , Vice-Presidents (Sir Julius Benedict, Professor Macfarren, etc.) ”

“ Among his pupils at this time were the Princess of Wales, the Empress of Russia, and the Landgrave Frederick William of Hesse Cassel. In 1864 Herr Siboni was appointed organist and professor of music at the Royal Academy of Music of Sorb, in Seeland, a post he still holds. ”

“ The earliest extant example of a round is the well-known 'Sumer is i-cumen in,' as to the date of which there has been much discussion, although it is certainly not later than the middle of the 13th century. ”

“ A collection of coplas was published at the end of the last century by N. Zamacola, writing under the pseudonym of Don Preciso. From the introduction to this book, the following quaint description of the Seguidilla is translated: 'So soon as two young people of the opposite sexes present themselves standing face to face at a distance of about two varas [2] in the middle of the room, the 'ritornelo' or prelude of the music begins ”

“ Burney, misled by a passage in the Dedication to the 1st Book of Musica Transalpina, says that he was an Italian merchant, whereas all that Yonge says is 'Since I first began to keepe house in this citie, a great number of Gentlemen and Merchants of good accompt (as well of this realme as of forreine nations) have taken in good part such entertainment of pleasure, as my poore abilitie was able to affoord them, both by the exercise of Musicke daily used in my house, and by furnishing them with Bookes of that kind yeerely sent me out of Italy and other places.' Young was born at Lewes, Sussex. ”

“ Best at Liverpool, and since 1868 has devoted himself to professional duties in Birmingham, at the classical concerts of which town he has constantly appeared as a pianist, and in which district he is widely known as a conductor. ”

“ On the death of her father, she lived in Sweden with the Baroness Stjernblad, who in 1860 sent her to Leipzig, where she was one of Moscheles's most promising pupils. In the following winter she went to Copenhagen, and played with great success. She was married to Herr Siboni Sept. 1, 1866, since when she has only occasionally performed at concerts at Copenhagen and Sorö. ”

“ Gladstone restored the annual grant of £500. In 1876 the number of pupils had so increased, that the lease of the house adjoining the premises in Tenterden Street had to be repurchased out of the savings of the institution. This house was joined on to the original premises, and a concert-room was formed out of part of the two houses, which though small has proved a great boon not only to the students for their regular concerts, but to many concert-givers for whose purposes the more extensive rooms of St. ”

“ App. p.799 "Add that his four-act opera ' Nadeschda,' set to a libretto by Julian Sturgis, was produced by the Carl Rosa Company at Drury Lane, April 16, 1885. An orchestral 'Suite de ballet' was performed by the Cambridge University Musical Society on June 9, 1887. ”

“ It is written either in the major or the minor key, in 3–2 or 3–4 time, although Walther (Lexicon, 1732) says that it may be also written in 2–4 time. It usually consists of two 8- or 12-bar divisions, begins on the down-beat, and ends on the second or third beat. ”

“ The number of pupils has increased from 300 in 1876, to 400 in 1881.
[ W. B. S. ] ↑ Although the above was published in the 'Morning Post' as the list of professors, instruction seems only to have been given by the following:—Dr. Crotch. Messrs. ”