Bal-musette
The Musette is a French folk dance.
French Waltz
The Valse Musette is in 3/4-time and is widely used in the French -speaking world. For the waltz melody triplets are typical of what she brings in natural near the 6/8- or 12/8-Takts. The Musette is often presented by the accordion or accompanied, what constitutes its characteristic sound. In today's Musette orchestras guitar, accordion, electric bass, piano or synthesizer and drums are represented. These usually gets even singing. In the French-speaking Switzerland, many Ländler have the concert Innerschweizer appropriated style. The melody of the musette waltz is played by an accordion and is the alto saxophone as an accompanying instrument.
Among the best known representatives of this music include Yvette Horner, Vassily Dück and especially André Verchuren. An " ambassador " of the musette in the German language is the accordionist Lydie Auvray.
Musette Neuve
Musette Neuve or New Musette is a known ì and coined by Richard Galliano style of music that combines the traditional French musette with jazz elements. Galliano used his musette - Neuve- style on his first live album New Musette, which he recorded together with Pierre Michelot ( bass), Philip Catherine ( guitar) and Aldo Romano (drums) in April 1991.
As the Musette is also the Musette Neuve in waltz time. The eighth can be played binary ternary ( Swing) or. The fourth -eighth is sometimes so strongly syncopated, giving the listener the impression of a 6/8-Taktes is mediated.
Already the French accordionist Gus Viseur wrote with Baro Ferret with Swing Valse Musette waltz with a strike to jazz. Similarly Indifference of Tony Murena and Joseph Colombo.
Baroque
In the Baroque Music Musette forms the central part of Gavotte and Minuet. The name owes the basses of the middle parts, which mimic the Musette de Cour. An artful piano - musette is found in the Gavotte I- II of the third English Suite (Bach) and the Handel Variations ( Brahms ) ( XXII). An orchestral Musette is part of the en: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 (trade ).