Wake Chawton with a Sweet Tune, Jane!

Again, browsing Strasbaugh’s ‘The List Lover’s Guide to Jane Austen’ I came by a song Arne’s 'Overture to Artaxerxes'.

Jane practiced piano in the mornings - I can’t but wonder if she woke Chawton Cottage with this music which sounds eclectic for it’s time: Sorry, Jane, I would’ve shouted down the stairs for you to play something sweeter! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Chg_nMkjiU

Handel's ‘Ask if yon Damask Rose be Sweet’, might be just my morning cup of tea.
 Here’s my preferred Alarm Song, with Lyrics and Orchestra, on a channel named Austen Music.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXxoP7bgIrA&list=PLTbMXzrF3-J5lroJKA8LcRv3pIKNy5WoC

Jane Austen's Music Collection

In browsing Joan Strasbaugh’s ‘The List Lover’s Guide to Jane Austen’ I came by a song in JA’s music book, Mrs. Hamilton of Pencaitland’s Strathspey.

(CelticJaneite has never heard the word Strathspey. She doesn’t know where Pencaitland is. But she once had a boyfriend named Hamilton, so she is not completely ignorant, in fact, for a time, she wondered if she would like to be Mrs. Hamilton, if she had, she might have heard of a Strathspey sooner).
WIKIPEDIA: A strathspey is a type of dance tune in 4/4 time. It is similar to a hornpipe but slower and more stately, and contains many dot-cut 'snaps.

Off to YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNJ35z0iTJA (the music starts at 1:40)

Oh so they are Strathspeys! I am familiar with the tunes. The 2^nd tune is one which I learned as a child, with the profound lyrics ‘oh the cat has a gumboil, a toothache, a bellyache, a pain in his left leg, a pimple on his toe!’ Sorry all Cat Lovers, I don’t like it either…but I think the ''cat'' was a human, maybe the crotchety Laird or the King - I was reminded recently of ‘Georgie Porgie Pudding and Pie…kissed the girls and made them cry…the Prince Regent?

Back to Mrs. Hamilton’s Strathspey”: here is one version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDFKE2AwZnk

Oh dear, Precedence! Coming by fascinating little details.

Writing is difficult in Summer...not only does the fine weather call me outside, but the laptop gets hot and then I get likewise...
Otherwise, Sequel coming along very well. I had to do some research into a subject about which I knew little - the British Army - the East India Company - so that various references I make will be accurate. Isn't it difficult to get to that one tiny little detail...then exultation when you find it, buried.
The novel is set in a particular time period - 1796-7.
A minor character who is a self-important name-dropper is giving me all kinds of challenges. References to men in power who he claims to have influence with have to be accurate as to their availability at that time! I  had Lord Cornwallis writing from India when he was in fact back in England in 1797.
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org is a tremendous help and it has little bios that are interesting and anecdotal.
MINOR PLOT SPOILER: This character is also about to become a knight. Lo and Behold, a wonderful resource was an actual book, all online, 'the Knights of England'  This gentleman is hoping he will be dubbed along with Horatio Nelson, who I have found out, received a great honour in June 1797.
But best of all, the book below inspired me. It lists a dilemma that society had when somebody was 'gazetted' i.e. named in the Gazette, but not yet invested. Where to seat him at table?
http://www.archive.org/stream/knightsofengland01shawuoft/knightsofengland01shawuoft_djvu.txt

To my delight, you can view the old Gazettes from the period online. Yes, newspapers, in full, with the fancy 'f' they used for 's' and all. There are lists of military officers, lists of society members, and a great deal of Bankruptcy notices. They are quite hard to read even when magnified, but you get the feeling that you can be right back there in 1797. Mr. Palmer, perhaps, liked to read the Bankruptcy Notices!