_A Barrel drum sometimes of Wood & sometimes Metal._ _A Log of Wood shaped like a Skull and used in Temples._ _A Metal Bell._ _A Lyre of silken Strings._ _A small Flute._ _A Muffled Drum._ _The Metal Gong or Loo_ _Cymbals._ _Uncertain_ _A Pair of Rattles or Castanets._ _Cymbals struck with a rod._ _Alommon Flute._ _Two Stringed Violins_ _A Three Stringed Guitar._ _A Pipe of inequal reeds or bamboos._ _Four Stringed Guitars._ _Three Trumpets._ _A Lyre of 11 Metallic Strings._ _Metal Plates an Instrument used in Sacred Music._ _A small barrell Drum._ _A fixed Drum used in Sacred Music._ _A small Gong or Loo._ _Published May 10^th, 1804 by Cadell and Davies Strand._ _Neele sc. Strand_] A Chinese band generally plays, or endeavours to play, in unison, and sometimes an instrument takes the octave; but they never attempt to play in separate parts, confining their art to the melody only, if I may venture to apply a name of so much sweetness to an aggregation of harsh sounds. They have not the least notion of counter-point, or playing in parts: an invention indeed to which the elegant Greeks had not arrived, and which was unknown in Europe as well as Asia, until the monkish ages. I never heard but one single Chinese who could be said to sing with feeling or plaintiveness. Accompanied with a kind of guittar, he sung the following air in praise of the flower _Moo-lee_, which it seems is one of the most popular songs in the whole country. The simple melody was taken down by Mr. Hittner, and I understand has been published in London, with head and tail-pieces, accompaniments, and all the refined arts of European music; so that it ceases to be a specimen of the plain melody of China. I have therefore given it in its unadorned state, as sung and played by the Chinese, together with the words of the first stanza, and their literal translation. [Music: MOO-LEE-WHA. I. 1 2 3 4 5 _Hau ye-to sien wha,_ 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 _Yeu tchau yeu jie lo tsai go kia_ 14 15 16 17 18 19 _Go pun tai, poo tchoo mun_ 20 21 22 23 24 25 _Twee tcho sien wha ul lo._ II. 1 2 3 4 5 6 _Hau ye to Moo-lee-wha_ 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 _Man yuen wha kai soy poo quee ta_ 15 16 17 18 19 20 _Go pun tai tsai ye ta_ 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 _Tai you kung kan wha jin ma._ _Literal Translation._ I. 1 2 3 4 5 How delightful this branch of fresh flowers 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 One morning one day it was dropped in my house 14 15 16 17 18 19 I the owner will wear it not out of doors 20 21 22 23 24 25 But I will hold the fresh flower and be happy. II. 1 2 3 4 5 6 How delightful this branch of the _Moo-lee_ flower 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 In the full plot of flowers blowing freely none excels it