Suggestions for music for a Jane Austen themed evening

[armande-fryatt]

Hi all

I’ve been asked to perform 20 minutes’ worth of solo music for a Jane Austen themed evening. Any suggestions please for music in keeping with this?

Thanks

Armande

[tony-morosco]

Play music from the movies. Rachel Portman wrote the score to Emma which won an academy award. You should be able to find a collection of simple piano arrangements that can be played on harp.

[paul-knoke]

The sonatas of Sophia Dussek, P. J. Meyer, and Krumpholz would all be appropriate to the period..

[patricia-jaeger]

Armande, A few years ago, Danielle Perrett, prominent UK harpist, toured with a singer. They both wore costumes in the period of Jane Austen novels, and the music suited that era. Visit Danielle’s website at http://www.danielleperrett.co.uk and if you can make contact with her from there perhaps ideas of suitable repertoire for your event would be found. Good luck!

[Alison]

I’d choose the Minstrel’s Adieu (John Thomas), Glinka’s Nocturne, easy Godefroid pieces and Naderman sonatas, maybe Dussek too, that’ll be plenty and probably already under your fingers.

[hannah-anderson]

There is also an entire book of piano transcriptions of Jane Austen soundtracks- you’d have to order it from the UK- but the pieces are excellent and very manageable on the harp.

[alexander-rider]

Why, Paul Lewis’ “Jane Austen Suite”, is the PERFECT answer to this. A short suite of lovely modern pieces, written in a late classical idiom! Ideal, and audiences will adore it. A x

http://www.goodmusicpublishing.co.uk/info/default.aspx?id=GM058

[kathryn-y]

Hornpipe (also known by its dance title Hole in the Wall – page 14 in the Friou book below) and Rondeau by Purcell are both lovely dance tunes and are used in several of the Jane Austen movies (would probably be familiar to a Jane Austen movie fan). Both pieces are in Baroque Music for the Harp by Deborah Friou (which also has other pieces that would work well): http://www.harpconnection.com/store/product.php?query=deborah+friou&sku=400-1227&itemRedir=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harpconnection.com%2Fstore%2Fsearch.php%3Fquery%3Ddeborah%2Bfriou%23A400-1227
They are fairly simple arrangements but pretty!

The Jane Austen movie soundtrack music would be nice, though not all of them would be that great as performance pieces (perhaps more suited to background). Some are though!

Sounds like a really fun gig!

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