Brunette (song form)

The brunette is a French song form popular in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.[1] Among those who worked in the form was Jacques Hotteterre, who published a collection of flute arrangements of airs and brunettes around 1721.[2] The main source we have for these brunettes is a set of three volumes titled “Brunetes ou petits airs tendres” dated 1703, 1704, and 1711. They were published in duodecimo by Christophe Ballard.

References
  1. "Dance Rhythms of the French Baroque: aHandbook for Performance" By Betty Bang Mather,assisted by Dean M. Karns. Performance Practice Review 2:1 (1989).
  2. The Doubles in Jacques Hotteterre's Airs et brunettes (ca. 1721). Recorder Education Journal 5 (1999), pp. 21-52.
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