Gig (music)

As Mugge (also Mucke, Mukke ) is in the jargon of German musicians in the commitment to individual performances. These also include the framing of public or private celebrations. In addition to individual performances by musicians in concerts by ensembles or orchestras that take place outside of their other, longer-term commitments, often called Mugge.

The term " Mugge " is particularly common in classical music. In contrast, in the fields of jazz, rock and pop music is increasingly the borrowed from English and internationally used term " gig " used.

In youth language, the word " Mugge " or " snag ", more generally as a synonym for " music " is used ( " great music ").

Word origin and spelling

This contrasts with the derivation as Pfropfwort (short word that is identical to an existing word with a different meaning ) counter: So Mugge is a shortening of "musical business opportunity " or " music for money " on the dialectal form Mugge for the word mosquito.

The encyclopedia of popular music leads the spellings Mugge and Mucke equal. " Snags " have therefore already in the 18th century as much as " begging " in the jargon of the mendicant musicians, the connection with the " musical business opportunity " was already detectable for the time shortly after 1900.