‘They found\nMary, as usual, deep in the study of thorough bass and human nature’. –\nP&P. Ch.12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘Let their\natttitude at the piano, or the harp, be easy and graceful…Similar beauty of\npostion may be seen in a lady’s management of a lute, a guitar, a mandolin or a\nlyre.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-The Mirror of\nGraces (1811), pp.194-5
\nCrosby & Co. London.
\n(Republished by R.L Shep. 1997)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many kinds of musical instruments such as the guitar, dulcimer, and flute could be found in Regency homes. However, the pianoforte and harp were considered most suitable for genteel young ladies.\u00a0 JA’s heroines would be familiar with instruments like the violin, English horn, flute and three-stringed double-bass as they danced English country dances; the Boulanger is mentioned by JA in P&P.\u00a0
Various JA adaptations such as P&P2 and NA1 show scenes of an orchestra with stringed instruments. Musicians who played country dance music could range from a rustic trio to a chamber orchestra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Patrick Piggot comments that in Jane Austen’s own music books was a volume of engraved music which\u00a0contains a set of fourteen Sonatinas for the harpsichord or pianoforte, with an accompaniment for the violin, ad libitum, by Ignaz Playel<\/em>. Playel was a famous composer of JA’s time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another volume\nof JA’s engraved music contains a flute obbligato* to some of the Songs in the\nvolume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *accompaniment\nas an essential part of the piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From JA’s music\nbooks, she was most familar with piano; the most common instrument of Regency\nladies; Which may explain why JA’s heroines play piano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My impression is young ladies at home may have played pianoforte or harp to accompany people playing on flute or violin.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Emma Austen Leigh, a niece of JA kept a record of her Christmas gifts. Her 1813 ‘gift diary’ recorded from Papa- A Tamborine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From The Ladies magazine, July 1801 picture and comment from ‘The Mirror of Graces’ (1811) it appears it wasn’t unknown for young ladies to pose with a guitar or play upon a stringed instrument in JA’s time.\u00a0 https:\/\/pemberley.com\/janeinfo\/1801gtar.gif<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n References :<\/p>\n\n\n\n ‘Bingley danced the two Second and the two Fifth\u00a0 ‘That’s Entertainment’\u00a0 P. Piggot. M. Hubert. Jane\nAusten’s Christmas. (Sutton Publishing 2003) p.81 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ‘They found Mary, as usual, deep in the study of thorough bass and human nature’. – P&P. Ch.12. ‘Let their atttitude at the piano, or the harp, be easy and graceful…Similar beauty of postion may be seen in a lady’s … Continue reading
See link below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dances with Jane’\u00a0
http:\/\/www.georgianindex.net\/Dance\/dance.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
http.faculty.rmwc.edu.\/janeausten\/reports\/entertainment.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nThe Innocent Diversion. Music in the Life and Writings of Jane Austen. pp\n143-144, p.146.
\n(The Clover Hill Editions. London.\n1979)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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