{"id":1649,"date":"2016-02-14T21:41:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T21:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2016-02-15T20:38:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T20:38:31","slug":"david-owen-norris-learns-thing-two-jane-austen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/2016\/02\/14\/david-owen-norris-learns-thing-two-jane-austen\/","title":{"rendered":"David Owen Norris learns a thing or two from Jane Austen"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Owen Norris is a pianist, composer, broadcaster, impresario, and Professor of Musical Performance at the University of Southampton.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Always a pleasure to visit Chawton House, the home of Jane Austen\u2019s brother, which now houses the International Library of Women\u2019s Writing. I had a meeting with the director, Dr Gillian Dow, to discuss ways to mark this year’s 200th anniversary of the publication of Emma<\/em>. This is the novel where Jane Fairfax plays a set of variations on the song Robin Adair, and a highlight of my visit was seeing Jane Austen\u2019s own copy of the piece. The variations are by George Kiallmark, a noted piano teacher, and perhaps because of his pedagogical bent, they act as a compendium of examples to illustrate Clementi\u2019s Introduction to the Art of Playing upon the Pianoforte<\/em> of 1801. One of the big surprises of believing that Clementi meant what he wrote is that performances could become very emotional \u2013 \u2018CON ESPRESSIONE, with passionate feeling: each note has its peculiar force and energy \u2013 even the severity of time may be relaxed for extraordinary effects\u2019. Our latest keyboard class was devoted to exploring Robin Adair, and Jane Fairfax\u2019s party-piece will form the centre of many a meeting of lovers of Jane Austen this year. I shall use it to conclude my keynote recital at the RAM\u2019s Historical Pianists conference at the Cobbe Collection at Hatchlands in April.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to see Jane Austen\u2019s Music Collection, it\u2019s all online at\u00a0https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/austenfamilymusicbooks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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