Jane Austen’s love of music—and why it matters | Kirstine Moffat | TEDxUniversity of Waikato

[music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [applause] I have just played Robin a Dear, a traditional Irish song about the heartbreak of lost love. Jane Fairfax, a character in Jane Austin's 1817 novel Emma, plays this song to express her anxiety and dread that the man she's secretly engaged to is unfaithful. This piece of music provides our way in to [clears throat] a journey of discovery in search of Jane Austin, the musician.Robin Adair is a piece that Austin knew, played, and loved. And her use of it in Emm ...