{"id":2021640,"date":"2025-09-14T19:21:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T19:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2021640"},"modified":"2025-09-14T19:21:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T19:21:32","slug":"jane-austen-loved-music-what-was-on-her-playlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jane-austen-loved-music-what-was-on-her-playlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Austen Loved Music. What Was on Her Playlist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When Lisa Timbs sits down wearing a gown at her 19th-century square piano and plays pieces from Jane Austen\u2019s sheet music collection, the feeling, she said recently, can be \u201cspine-tingling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Timbs\u2019s audience for such performances tends to be fellow Austen fans, eager to be transported back to the Regency society that Austen brought to life so evocatively in her novels. Hearing Austen\u2019s favorite music on an instrument similar to one that the author herself would have played is a kind of time travel, Timbs said. The sound of the square piano \u2014 the first midsize and affordable keyboard to be widely available in England \u2014 was quite different from modern pianos, Timbs added: It is generally tuned lower, with a silvery, bright sound.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify\" class=\"css-9whsf3\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/0VhSk5vqCd1LLxeQ9ZNrRu\" width=\"600px\" height=\"80px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the crowded field of Austen appreciation and scholarship, the novelist\u2019s love of music and its influence on her writing has long been a bit of a fringe topic. But in the last decade, after academics at the University of Southampton in England <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/janeaustensmusic\/austen-family-music-books\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">digitized the sheet music collection<\/a> of Austen and her family, more and more people are turning to the music for new perspectives on her life and work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This year, the 250th anniversary of Austen\u2019s birth, has been the busiest performance year yet for Timbs and her square piano, she said. Timbs \u2014 who bought her first handmade, 19th-century piano in 2012 \u2014 will play more than a dozen concerts celebrating the writer, including one on Sept. 18 as part of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/janeausten.co.uk\/pages\/jane-austen-festival-2025-performance\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the Jane Austen Festival<\/a> in Bath, southwestern England.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nytimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Lisa Timbs sits down wearing a gown at her 19th-century square piano and plays pieces from Jane Austen\u2019s sheet music collection, the feeling, she said recently, can be \u201cspine-tingling.\u201d Timbs\u2019s audience for such performances tends to be fellow Austen fans, eager to be transported back to the Regency society that Austen brought to life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2021641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[371655,371661,309367,22219,371659,371658,371657,371656,348076,371660],"class_list":["post-2021640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-austen","tag-bath-england","tag-books-and-literature","tag-classical-music","tag-emma-book","tag-franz-joseph","tag-haydn","tag-jane","tag-musical-instruments","tag-sense-and-sensibility-play"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jane-Austen-Loved-Music-What-Was-on-Her-Playlist.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}