My uncle Toby would never offer to answer this by any other kind of argument, than that of whistling half dozen bars of Lillabullero.
(TRISTRAM SHANDY, Book 1
Chapter 22)
The viol-playing author of Tristram Shandy had more varied musical interests than Uncle Toby: Italian concerts, for example - and he often described his fictional characters in musical terms. G. B. Martini Concerto in G JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL (flute)
I SOLISTI VENETI/
CLAUDIOSCIMONE Charles Avison Concerto Grosso No 6, in D (after Domenico Scarlatti )
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS/
SIR NEVILLE MARRINER records