The Creative Works Of Women In The 18th/19th Century

THE CREATIVE WORKS OF WOMEN IN THE 18th/19th CENTURY
Tim Parker- Langston - fortepiano/tenor
Ana Beard Fernandez - soprano
Miranda Westcott - mezzo soprano
​Jo Lawrence - violin
Pavel Serbin - violoncello

Joseph Haydn: Selections from Canzonetta: Book One (poetry by Anne Hunter (1742-1821))
The Mermaid' Song (Miranda)
Recollection (Vs 1) (Ana)
Despair (Vs 1 and 4) (Tim)
Fidelity (Miranda)

Harriett Abrams: (1758-1821)
The Eolian Harp (Ana)
Crazy Jane (Miranda)
The ballad of William and Nancy (Tim)
Anne-Louise Brillon de Jouy: (1744-1824)
Sur le bord d'une onde (Ana)
Louise Reichardt: (1779-1826)
Unruhiger schlaf (Miranda)
Fanny Hensel (maiden name Mendelssohn): (1805-1847)
Liederkreis (Ana, Miranda, Tim)
Jane Austen: (1775-1817)
Selections from her Music Collection
Joseph Haydn: (1732-1809)
She Never Told Her Love (Tim)
François Devienne: (1759-1803)
Qué j'aime a voir les hirondelles (Ana)
Georgiana Cavendish: (Duchess of Devinshire) (1757-1806)
I have a silent sorrow (Miranda)
Joseph Haydn:
Scottish Songs:
Green Grow the Rashes (Ana, Miranda, Tim)
Logan Water (Ana, Miranda, Tim)
Macpherson's Farewell (Ana, Miranda, Tim)

Anne Hunter born in March 1742 in Waterford, Ireland, was the eldest daughter of the military surgeon Robert Byrne Home and his wife Mary Hutchinson. Anne married the eminent surgeon, John Hunter in July 1771 and they had four children, two of whom died in infancy. As a young woman she had gained some note as a lyrical poet, her "Flower of the Forest" appearing in an Edinburgh periodical, in 1765. Joseph Haydn set a number of her songs to music, including "My Mother bids me bind my Hair," originally written to an air of Pleyel's.

Jane Austen's 'Musical Scenes' not only gave Jane scope to develop plot and character, they also evoke gendered themes that sparked fierce debates in her time. Music figured among the genteel occupations often called ‘accomplishments’ in the period’s abundant literature on women’s conduct. The prominence of 18th-century debates on the accomplishments means it can be tempting to reproduce their terms, for example by considering music as a polite but trivial pastime, or as a mode of attracting a suitor.

Georgiana Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire, was an English aristocrat, socialite, political organiser, author, and activist. Born into the Spencer family, she was the first wife of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire. The first of Georgiana's published literary works was Emma; or, The Unfortunate Attachment: A Sentimental Novel written in 1773. She was among a few women whose work exemplified English theatre and popular songs of the late-eighteenth century, along with Harriet Abrams.