Musette (waltz)
The Valse Musette is a French folk dance . It is at the 3 / 4 - stroke and is in the French-speaking widespread. For the waltz are triplets typically what the natural affinity in 9 / 8 brings -Takts. The musette is often played or accompanied by the accordion , which gives it its characteristic sound. In today's musette orchestras guitar , accordion, electric bass , piano or synthesizer as well as drums are represented. Usually there is also singing . In French-speaking Switzerland , many have Ländler the concert Innerschweizer appropriated style. The melody of the musette waltz is played by an accordion and the alto saxophone serves as an accompanying instrument.
The best-known representatives of this music include Émile Vacher , Yvette Horner , Vassily Dück , Jo Privat and above all André Verchuren . The accordionist Lydie Auvray is an "ambassador" of the musette in the German-speaking world .
Musette Neuve
Musette Neuve or New Musette is a music style created and shaped by Richard Galliano that combines traditional French musette with elements of jazz . Galliano first used his Musette Neuve style on his live album New Musette , which he recorded with Pierre Michelot ( double bass ), Philip Catherine ( guitar ) and Aldo Romano ( drums ) in April 1991.
Like the musette, the musette Neuve is also in waltz time. The eighth notes can be played ternary ( swing ) or binary. The fourth eighth note is sometimes syncopated so strongly that the listener is given the impression of 6 ⁄ 8 time.
Already the French accordionist Gus Viseur wrote Baro Ferret with Swing Valse a musette waltz with turning to jazz . Similar is Indifférence by Tony Muréna and Joseph Colombo .
literature
- René Maquet: In the land of musett music . Preissler Verlag, Munich 1961.
Individual evidence
- ↑ philipcatherine.com ( Memento from June 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Richard Galliano Quartet (YouTube)
- ↑ Gus Viseur (YouTube)
- ↑ Aneta Pajek (YouTube)