New Music.

NEW MUSIC .

like de BonJieur ; composed for the piano-forte by V . PKAEGER . London : Addison , Hollicr and Lucas , 210 , Regent-street . —This beautiful composition may be very fitly classed under the head of poetry for the piano ; for an entire subject is detailed as the piece proceeds , and only requires tbe thoughtful consideration and the skilful playing of the renderer , to demonstrate how wonderfully sense can be expressed by sound . " A dream of

happiness , " as the title may be Anglicised , fully expresses the character of the production ; commencing with a movement caiitando convioMo qffetto , the time being six-eight , the key one flat , it seems indeed to sing with much affection of memories brought at length to light , like the long hidden characters of an ancient palimpsest . At first melanchol y , then rolling deeply into tbe bass , gloomy thoughts appear to overcloud the mind with an agitation finelexpressed in a to he performed as if it were recitative

y passage ; this passage is in common time , but the performer , after indulging in a retrospective dream , rich with memories redolent of melody , again assumes the six-eight measure and rises in a movement of grandeur , depicting the mind's triumph over carking care . Mingled sensations seem to occupy the attention during the remainder of this exceedingly clever little work ; ancl all honour is due to the composer for the much to be esteemed manner in which he has executed it .

Vol d' Oisean , Valse de Salon ; for the pianoforte . Composed by 5 . DE JASIEXSKI . London : Addison , Hollier , and Lucas , 210 , Regent Street . — Music and mystery . What does this enigmatical critic mean ? inquires the reader . Why , gentle sir or madam , this is a very pleasing piece of music marred by a mystery that to the general , must be bewildering . It may be all very well for Monsieur de Jasienski or any other professor to play a rapid waltz descriptive ofthe fliht of a birdsuch waltz being in the

g , key of five flats ; but how in the name of all that is difficult does he expect Miss Myrtle , pupil of Madame Milleflcurs , of Sunflower Seminary for Young-Ladies to decipher his hieroglyphics ? The waltz in itself is a very good waltz , but the composer should bear in mind the next" time he sits down to his desk or instrument that waltzes are nowadays written for dancing , aud not for difficulty . Wc pen this in no spiteful spiritbut rather with a ° dcsire

, to stimulate the _ writer to give us something more facile of execution ; for it must be a sad disappointment at a dance when the name of a waltz such as the " Vol d' Oiseau , " so suggestive of airiness and ease , turns out instead to be the strugglings of the unfortunate bird , as though caught in a net .

Fax Songs . The poetry by MABIA EMZAISETI * Moss ; the music by BEXXETT GiuiEUT . London : J . II . Jewell , 104 , Great Russell Street , Jjloomsbmy—The poetess iias evidently taken a deal of trouble over the words of these five songs , and she has apparently been imbued with the poetry ofthe lyrists of the age ; but why has she leit number four , the ' Song of Eng- land , " with only one verse ? As a collection , the ballads can be read with pleasure , some of the ideas being tons quite new ; and novelty in the is indeed

present day a creditable attribute . Mr . Gilbert ' s music is equally appreciable , and we have no doubt that the sale of the work will be commensurate with its merits .