The brunette is a French song form popular in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Among those who worked in the form was Jacques Hotteterre, who published a collection of flute arrangements of airs and brunettes around 1721. 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
- "Dance Rhythms of the French Baroque: aHandbook for Performance" By Betty Bang Mather,assisted by Dean M. Karns. Performance Practice Review 2:1 (1989).
- The Doubles in Jacques Hotteterre's Airs et brunettes (ca. 1721). Recorder Education Journal 5 (1999), pp. 21-52.
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