UM1436 Jane Austen Suite for harp

Cover image Jane Austen Suite
Paul Lewis
   
Contents: 1. Prologue
2. Country Dance
3. Romance
4. Ride away
Instrumentation: Solo Harp
Level: Intermediate
Format: A4 stapled score
ISMN: 9790222281257
Publisher: Goodmusic Publishing
Edition/Year: 2010
Origin: UK
Our Ref: UM1436
   

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About the music

Jane Austen Suite for harp

In 1998, inspired by close acquaintance with two antique gilded harps, I decided to compose a work in a style that would remind them of their younger days! To think myself into a thoroughly Regency frame of mind I played through antique music books until I was so immersed in the style of the period that I could close the books and continue playing in the same vein without any anachronistic intrusions. The books were a leather-bound volume of popular piano salon pieces by long-forgotten composers, written out in a neat copperplate ink script: "The Manuscript Books of Mary Heberden, Datchett Lodge, 1819 & 1826" and a similar collection of harp pieces compiled by one Eliza Euphrosina Saris at about the same time. By these means I hope to have produced music of the kind which Jane Austen might have imagined her fictional heroines playing, the sort of music that all well-bred young Regency ladies would have wanted to perform before an admiring audience, no doubt silhouetted with their harps before the French windows, making the most of the opportunity to display their slender fingers upon the strings and their delicate ankles as they moved the pedals. (Paul Lewis)
Four movements: Prologue; Country Dance; Romance; Ride away.
Duration 10 minutes

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