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In the treatment of this little strain is a certain richness, and an ambition, unlike that of the amateur, to make the accompaniment as important as the melody. There is also an unconventional breaking-up of the melody which shows science, and a plaintiveness at the passage marked A which shows a true feeling and reflection of the words.

Through these songs there is a strong leaning to minor keys; and these, which are always rocks ahead for amateurs, are not so successful as the others. There is a danger of monotony. "The bark dashes wildly," Es treibet die Welle, is in G minor, and has an excellent "storm" passage. Wachst Liebchen, a sort of slumber song, is truly German, very sweet and pretty, and worthy of Kücken himself. It may, indeed, be said that the severe musician or critic would dismiss these efforts as trifling, or hint grimly at the necessity of complaisance when a prince condescends to set music-paper before him, and blot down crotchets and quavers. But it may be repeated, that these compositions have a sentiment and real feeling, without which mere scholastic training is utterly ineffective.

There is also a great variety in these little pieces. "The star of splendour," Ich zog auf meinen Lebens Wegen, has some original forms and phrases, though otherwise not so pretty as its companions. Komm, Liebchen, komm, is in the old-fashioned canzonet style, and was clearly suggested by one of Haydn's graceful songs; though here, too, his fancy for rich accompaniment is evident.

But the song to be most admired is that called Wie es rauscht dort um die Wipfel, which is better known as "Sounds are in the forest dying," and which is singularly graceful, with a flow of melody that is really charming, while the change from one key into another, though it seems a little violent at first, is so rich and satisfactory as to satisfy even the most exacting ear. Any true musician will be delighted with the melodious stream of rich chord and flowing song, which certainly deserves to be rescued from the oblivion to which light music, if only a year old, seems destined to be consigned.

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So with "Yonder thou shalt find the blessing," Jenseits wirst du Ruhe finden, which is elegant and rich in treatment, and also light and fanciful. Indeed it might pass, to a person who had the music of Mendelssohn's "Son and stranger" lingering in the ear, as a fragment of that delightful little work.

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