Just a silly question about the 1995 adaptation, help is appreciated

[kiki1982]

What is the music called Lizzy and Darcy dance to? It is a nice piece and I'd like the score because I collect folk muic,but I can't look for it unless I have the title...

Does anyone know?

Here is a link to the film on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBgaO9Va5cA

[amarna]

Colin Firth is really yummy, isn't he?

Google says the dance is "Mr. Beveridge's Maggot". Here is the source.

[kiki1982]

Very well played indeed, although I think that an actor can do whatever he likes, if his part is badly written, he is never going to do well...

Thank you for the info. I now have a list of countrydances on pianoforte (if I ever start to play the piano again I'll certainly try, although my hands shuld be a little bigger than they are, I think).

[kiki1982]

I think, on reflection, that music expresses very well the nature of Lizzy and Darcy's relationship and their personal frames of mind...

The first part is a mix of pride and mutual approach (measure 1 pride and measure 2 slight approach, although directly countered by pride again)

The second part is mainly approach, but very cautiously (measures 1-5, a mix of starting minor chords with a major), followed by bliss (a slighlty milder minor chord (measure 7) and the one before last measure ends in a major) After which quietness rules.

Beautiful.

Well done Davies!

[wessexgirl]

I can't tell you how many times I've watched this series Kiki, I absolutely adore it. It's sort of gone down in our national consciousness here in the UK. I once answered the telephone when watching it at that exact point with the dancing, and before I could turn it down, the person on the other end, (not a friend who might know me and what I would be watching, but a stranger) went into raptures saying "ooh you're watching P&P, how wonderful". I just thought as it was first aired in 1995, and it was a piece of what I thought would be unfamiliar music, it said a lot about how much it has seeped into our consciousness. Wonderful stuff, and Darcy/Firth is yummy .

[kiki1982]

Yes, that is true. I think the scene where Darcy stripped off got several millions of viewers when it aired for the first time. But it was so much to the point. There could have been no better way of doing that in a truly symbolic manner.

Have you seen Lost in Austen where Lizzy and Darcy stare into a laptop about 'The Darcy-obsession'? It is a great series! So much founded in Austen and yet such a different look on things and our lives now and why we got obsessed with Darcy.

But Davies did so well in making that book a great series in 1995. It is almost unbelievable. Nothing compared to 2005...

I dread to think what they are going to make of Emma in the Autumn...

[sciencefan]

Originally Posted by kiki1982

Yes, that is true. I think the scene where Darcy stripped off got several millions of viewers when it aired for the first time. ...

Do you mean when he went swimming?
How did people know to watch that part?
Was it in the news?
Were people told he was going to take off his clothes and go swimming?
I had no idea people in the UK were so obsessed with Colin Firth until I saw one of the Bridget Jones films.
There's an out-take on the DVD where Bridget Jones interviews Colin Firth as himself so he can promote the new movie he's filming, but all she wants to talk about is the wet shirt scene in P & P. It is absolutely hilarious.
Now that I think of it, someone has probably put it on youtube.
Let me go look.
Yay!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MwID77AXls

What made this part so funny is that the both of them made this up.
It was not scripted! This is where Renée Zellweger really shines!
It had been intended to be a part of the film and there had been discussion about it,
but as I said there was no script.

It was from this out-take that I gathered that people were so hugely obsessed with Colin Firth and the wet shirt scene.

[kiki1982]

I think I must have confused The Thornbirds with P&P... The episode where priest Ralph and Meggie have a 'love-weekend' on that island had a huge record.

Nonetheless, the final episode of P&P had a market share of 40%! So, not only the episode where Firth stripped off... Sorry... Each week between 10 and 11 million people watched it in the UK.

I was also surprised at the level, but Wikipedia (referenced) says that newspapers in the end talked about 'Darcy-fever', so it must have been a true obsession.

About the lake scene:

It is possible, however, that viewers knew before that something really great was going to happen. It is possible that someone dropped a hint in a newspaper or that there was a trailer with a brief image on the BBC the week before. I didn't use to watch BBC then. Now they would certainly do so in order to boost interest.

[Chiz]

Again, apologies for answering a dated posting! I must actually credit P&P, the BBC A&E version, with my transition into classical music. I have always liked Mozart; after viewing this film and making the effort to acquire the songs/music from the video, I now listen to Beethoven and a variety of other pieces. I believe the piece Lizzie plays at the piano is Mozart. I think the music of the period was truly wonderful!

[kiki1982]

The piece Lizzy played was entitled 'Voi che sapete' ('You who know... what love is it continutes'). It is part of The Marriage of Figaro. I am a little confused at the translation, because it does not sound like properly translated, but anyway, if that is how they sang it then...

Voi che sapete che cos'è amor.
Donne vedete s'io l'ho nel cor (2X)
Quello ch'io provo, vi ridiro
e per me nuovo, capir no so:
Sento un affetto, pien di desir,
ch'ora è dilletto, ch'ora è martir.
Gelo e poi sento l'alma avvampar
E in un momento torno a gelar.
Ricerco un bene fuori di me.
Non so ch'il tiene, non so cos'è.
Sospiro e gemo senza voler,
Palpito e tremo senza saper,
non trovo pace notte ne di,
ma pur mi piace, languir cosí...
Voi che sapete che cos'è amor.
Donne vedete, s'io l'ho nel cor (2X)

Very funny and appropriate tune for Darcy too, actually! Poor guy, freezing and sweating at the sight of Lizzy... And he doesn't know what this feeling is... Poor man, it was probably the first time, bless him... He never though she'd catch him like that...