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a voce sola, after which there were prayers; and then a little boy, not above six years old, mounted the pulpit, and delivered a discourse, by way of sermon, which he had got by heart, and which was rendered truly ridiculous by the ve- hicle through which it passed. The ora- torio of Abigail, set to music by Signor Casali, was then performed. This drama consisted of four characters, and was di- vided into two parts. The two first movements of the overture pleased me very much, the last not at all. It was, as usual, a minuet degenerated into a jigg of the most common cast. This rapidity in the minuets of all modern overtures renders them ungraceful at an opera, but in a church they are indecent. The rest of the music was pretty common-place, for though it could boast of no new me- lody or modulation, it had nothing vul- gar in it.
Signor Cristofero sung the principal part very well, in Guarducci's smooth
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