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cent upon the wrong note; for instance, upon the second instead of the first; or, in common time, upon the fourth instead of the third. This may have its merit in comic operas, where some humour is seconded by it, but surely such a poor expedient is beneath the dignity of church music, where a grave and majestic stile should be preserved, even in rapid move- ments. But the same rage for novelty, which has occasioned such sudden revo- lutions in the music of Italy, gives birth, sometimes, to strange concetti.
The national music here is so singu- lar, as to be totally different, both in melody and modulation, from all that I have heard elsewhere. This evening in the streets there were two people singing alternately; one of these Neapolitan Canzoni was accompanied by a violin and calascione*. The singing is noisy
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