The frequent references to the actors and events of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in the titles of the dance tunes of the period raise the question of how we should understand their significance. This article argues that the practice is one of a number of examples of music and song shaping people's lived experience and behavior in ways that were rarely fully conscious. Drawing on a range of music collections, diaries, and journals, the article argues that we need to recognize how significant aural dimensions were in shaping people's predisposition to favor the status quo in this period of heightened political controversy.

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英国的音乐和运动，1793-1815

在这段时期的舞曲标题中经常提到法国大革命和拿破仑战争的演员和事件，这引发了我们应该如何理解它们的重要性的问题。本文认为，这种做法是音乐和歌曲以很少完全有意识的方式塑造人们的生活体验和行为的众多例子之一。这篇文章借鉴了一系列音乐收藏、日记和期刊，认为我们需要认识到在这个政治争议加剧的时期，听觉维度在塑造人们倾向于维持现状的倾向方面有多么重要。