Jane Austen’s music online (for free!)
Anyone who has read a Jane Austen novel, or seen one of the many adaptations of her work for film, knows that music plays a significant role.
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La Vittoria – Waterloo in music
Katrina Faulds has recently finished her PhD on dance and dance music in the English country house c. 1800. She is also an accomplished performer on early pianos, and last week saw her presenting some of her research in sound: In November last year, Dr Penelope Cave and I were offered the opportunity to perform a concert at Chawton House Library as part of the Music department’s regular collaborative series.
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Cramer at Chawton
Pianist Harry Matthews (year 2) tells us about the most recent Music department concert at Chawton House Library:
Last Tuesday, I went with Professor David Owen Norris, Laurence McNaughton and Manikka Marchant to provide a night of Georgian piano music at Chawton House Library.
The concert was performed on an early 19th-century Stodart Patent Compensating Grand piano.
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Transatlantic thoughts
US scholar-performer Dr Vivian Montgomery reflects on her stay in Southampton during a Fulbright fellowship: As I near the end of my time in the UK as a Fulbright Senior Scholar, I’m astonished by both how much has happened and how much more I could do with another 6 months. I came to Southampton in January after 5 days staying in Durham Castle for the Fulbright Forum.
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Music returns to Chawton House
The Department of Music has just launched a new concert series in collaboration with our friends and long-time partners at Chawton House Library, the research centre in the beautiful country house formerly owned by Jane Austen's brother. Postgraduate pianist Ellen Day tells us about the performance:
On December 10 we gathered at Chawton House for the inaugural concert, featuring a newly restored 1828 Stodart grand piano.
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