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1.A dance to a musette, especially in the 18th-century French court.
‘Following a wave of immigration from the rural French Auvergne region to Paris, the hicks from the sticks brought with them the _musette_ dance - named after an early precursor to the accordion that was central to the music.’
2.A kind of small bagpipe played with bellows, common in the French court in the 17th–18th centuries and in later folk music.
‘Examples of bellows-blown bagpipes include the Northumbrian small-pipes, the Scottish Lowland or Border bagpipe, the Irish uillean bagpipe, the _musette_ , and the dudy.’
‘Oppermann’s legend was assured and to this day old timers still refer to musettes as ‘Oppy bags’, since the Australian is credited with inventing them.’
3.A small knapsack.
‘Many types of ‘dispatch bag’ or ‘map bag’ canvas carriers were in use in addition to the _musette_ bag which could be a pack or a shoulder bag.’
‘Thirty _musette_ bags filled with two bottles, two gels, two bars, two candy bars, two pastries, and some fruit are made.’
4.A small, simple variety of oboe, used chiefly in 19th-century France.
‘Exceptions are the zampogna, the _musette_ , and the uillean pipes, which have double reeds throughout.’
‘The second became the desire to do the same thing for all five oboes from _musette_ to bass.’
5.A tune or piece of music imitating the sound of the musette, typically with a drone.
‘How is it that the French _musette_ - a pre-WWII pop music with rustic roots and a prototypical audience of knife-wielding proletarians - sounds to contemporary American ears like the very essence of elegant sophistication?’
‘A jazz outing with the feel of many genres - klezmer, tango and _musette_ - this is a true world music played by a quintet of reeds, accordion, violin, trombone (doubling on tuba) and drums.’
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