Dancing With Mr. Darcy
There, we knew that would get your attention. 
The Allmusic Blog has a nice little entry about Jane Austen and period music.
Austen was known to be a music lover, perhaps more than anyone else in her family. Her life coincides with the time when structured musical education was available to a much wider audience than ever before and pianos began to be sold to anyone and everyone. Music-making was one of the required accomplishments of a proper young lady of marriageable age, and many of her most odious characters show no taste or talent for music.
January 12th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
So, when Jane Austen told her sister that she expected to enjoy a concert in Sydney Gardens because the gardens were large enough for her to get beyond the reach of the sound, does that mean she didn’t like concerts, or does it mean she loved it too much to listen to inferior music?
By the way, that line reminds me of Oscar Wilde and his “Are you coming to the music room? Not if there is any music going on.” I like to think they would be friends if they could meet in a time warp somewhere.