The Talmudic debates that could break out at every theft opportunity amuse me. "No, no, it can get its own water, we can steal it." "No, we have to clean up after it, we can't steal it." "Well, what does it really mean, to clean up after?"

Actually, I say that I'm watering (and foddering) the cats all the time. But then they often sound like a small herd of cattle, hence my confusion.

ita - a last minute thought. If you added a lock to your costume, instead of being a can-can girl, you would be a won't won't girl.

If you added a lock to your costume, instead of being a can-can girl, you would be a won't won't girl.

Heh. I added surly and was a can't can't girl.

Hey Susan - here's what my sis has to say on the music question:

Ha! Well, I could tell you what I know of off the top of my head, but I also just happen to have my Grout & Palisca “History of Western Music” sitting right next to me.

Basically – Haydn would have been the big dude of the day for concertos, quartets and symphonies (of which he wrote 104. a HUNDRED AND FOUR!!! Crackpot) If your friend is looking for British facts specifically, he wrote the twelve “London” symphonies there in the 1790’s.

Mozart’s music was also very popular, although he was known by the public as a trickster (he was broke and would often take lots of commissions and then put off writing), and then he died of syphilis. Seriously. He was 36 maybe?

Beethoven was like 20 years old at this time and just starting to write quartets and choral music.

Both Mozart and Beethoven studied with Haydn.

You think you've seen The Last Supper? You haven't seen The Last Supper.

Susan - are you looking for more folk and country type tunes? My DH like to play stuff like that on his guitar. It is possible he'll have some other ideas when he gets home

Thanks, brenda!

And thanks, beth, but my character is much more the classical type. Um, this is the part where I admit to maybe being a little crazy and talking to the dead and/or imaginary people who inhabit my brain, but he kinda insisted I research the kind of music someone of his good breeding and exalted birth would know, because to him my own tastes in the music of his era are so depressingly, well, common. Except for my love for Handel's Messiah, I'm all folk music and Wesley hymns when it comes to the 18th and early 19th century.

I'm not REALLY crazy, I swear! I know lots of authors--well, at least several--whose characters talk back to them. It makes it more fun!

I thinking more like this kind of stuff

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O'Caralan is a bit earlier than you are looking for but it sounds more like the type of music yo are talking about

( if you click on his name in the above link you get a taste of the music )

never mind

You wrote more while I ws off looking - so you get the info anyway. this is something that was popular back then ( from a musical ) and is still known today

heart of Oak

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