His success had brought on the long-neglected composer pressing applications for concerti and sonata, adapted to his more peculiar science on the violin.

He had been employed for some weeks, day and night, on a piece in which he hoped to excel himself.

He took, as usual, one of those seemingly impracticable subjects which it was his pride to subject to the expressive powers of his art,--the terrible legend connected with the transformation of Philomel.

The pantomime of sound opened with the gay merriment of a feast.

The monarch of Thrace is at his banquet; a sudden discord brays through the joyous notes,--the string seems to screech with horror.