ABSTRACT
Pianist Lottie Jones takes lessons and practices scales before breakfast; Annette Ramsey never learned music but enjoys hearing others play. Herr Faber, a pianist engaged to play at a lawn party they attend, offers a lesson in musical etiquette: ‘It is all in the day’s work,’ he mutters afterward. ‘To make music for those who do not listen! Bah! It is thankless work!’ (p. 147)
Some Types of Girlhood; or, Our Juvenile Spinsters (S.F.A. Caulfeild) Part 1 pp. 4-5 Author warns musicians, who ‘as a rule, are very genial, good-natured, light-hearted folk’ against being a nuisance when practising: ‘Those only who have resided, as a sandwich, between the crossfire of two pianos, or two sopranos of the singing sisterhood, can at all appreciate the pandemonium to which they are condemned!’ (p. 197) Illustration ‘Musical’ depicts a musical girl p. 4
Varieties (On a Bad Singer) p. 15
Number 563 (11 October 1890) Greyfriars: A Story for Girls (Evelyn Everett-Green) Ch. 1 pp. 17-19
While at Greyfriars, Aunt Esther, who is a good pianist with ‘brilliant accuracy of touch’ and whose music is much in demand in the evenings, helps her niece Jessie improve her playing ‘wonderfully’. Jessie’s Aunt Gostling finds it ‘galling’ that in contrast her own daughter Bertha ‘could hardly struggle through a schoolgirl piece without breaking down or slurring over every little difficulty’ (p. 322).
