I've been trying to be more productive at work, and as such, I've resorted to an old trick I used while studying in high school: noise-canceling headphones and listening to soundtrack music. Music with words is too distracting, and classical music often takes too much focus/brainpower. So a nice medium is music from movie soundtracks -- just interesting enough but kind of repetitive and one-dimensional, which is good for white noise.
I built a new Pandora station starting with the score from Braveheart, one of my favorite movies (and also one of my favorite soundtracks), and also the score from The Mission.
One song I discovered through this station, which I've been obsessed with, is "Pavane," the second movement from Peter Warlock's beautiful, but very short, Capriol Suite. I listen to it and think of a stately and grand, perhaps royal, Medieval wedding.
Another song I've loved since I studied it in a Chamber Music class in college is also a second movement, from Schubert's Piano Trio in B-flat major, "Andante un poco mosso." It's so achingly lovely, and this video shows cello virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin playing so soulfully, along with Maurice Gendron and Hepzibah Menuhin.
And lastly, I always love the songs used for dance sequences in some of my favorite Jane Austen-type movies, like the gorgeous Henry Purcell's "Hole in the Wall" used in Becoming Jane (the movie itself is only ok, but I think the moment Tom LeFroy shows up at 1:07 in the dance, after Jane has been waiting and pining for him all night, makes the whole thing worth it!). And of course, "Mr. Beveridge's Magot" from the scene where Lizzy and Darcy first dance in the A&E version of Pride and Prejudice. Le sigh.