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noun

Musette n.

A small bagpipe formerly in use, having a soft and sweet tone.

An air adapted to this instrument; also, a kind of rustic dance.

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Etymology of 'Musette'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... GAVOTTES CELEBRES: I have made another trover there: a musette of Lully's. The second part of it I have not yet got the hang of; but the first - only a few bars! The gavotte is beautiful and pretty hard, I think, and very much of the period; and at the end of it, this musette enters with the most ...

— Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson

... seems to think her joke a little too evident, for she takes up the conversation in her turn, only to conclude that she likes Robin better than she does the knight; he is gayer, and when he plays his musette he starts the whole village dancing. At this, the squire makes a declaration of love with such energy as to spur his horse almost ...

— Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres • Henry Adams

... 2. MUSETTE (cornemusa or bagpipe).—[3/4] [2/4] allegretto. Form 1. Always written over or under a pedal note, which is generally sustained to the end. It generally forms the second part (not ...

— Critical & Historical Essays - Lectures delivered at Columbia University • Edward MacDowell

... The 'Musette' was a softer form of bagpipes, and many of the great musicians have included in their 'Suites,' or collections of dances, special music for the instrument bearing this name. Such music had a lulling, ...

— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various

... he started to get excited about it. As he cleaned up his paper work and packed his musette, his hands were fumbling, and his mind ...

— Slingshot • Irving W. Lande

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