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Auvergnat bourrée

practice · 1700–

Also called bourrée d'Auvergne, cabrette dance

Massif Central dance-music whose old public instrument is the cabrette (Auvergnat bagpipe): binary bourrées for the village and, later, the Paris bal auvergnat. It is a practice, the named parent of Musette (the bal keeps the name musette from this pipe). It is not the baroque suite bourrée, not a leftover “French folk” bin, and not Gypsy jazz. Empty Received is historically checked. French folk leftover as a refused catch-all. Baroque suite bourrée leftover as a different courtly use of the dance name.

Listen

  1. Bourrée d'Auvergne Auvergnat cabrette tradition YouTube
  2. Bourrée Martin Cayla (c. 1930) YouTube
  3. Bourrée Jean Ségurel YouTube · Spotify · Amazon

Passed on

Musette genre · 1880–

Auvergnat migrants open cabrette bals in Paris.

Influence

Auvergnat bourrée → Musette

function and contextinstrumentationperformance practicestrength: highwell documented1880–1910migrationdanceoral

Mechanism

Auvergnat migrants open cabrette bals in Paris. The room and the name musette come from that pipe. Italian chromatic accordion then replaces the cabrette and the repertory shifts toward valse and java. Strength high for the institution and the name; the later accordion waltz book is not a village bourrée. Do not treat baroque suite bourrée as this parent.

Evidence

Nineteenth-century bals auvergnats in Paris; the word musette from the bagpipe; Grove on the cabrette-to-accordion handoff. Village bourrée continues in Auvergne as the same practice at home.

Debate

Whether accordion musette is still Auvergnat music. Consensus: the bal is the Auvergnat gift; the valse-java accordion school is a new Paris genre. Italian accordionists are mediators of a kit, not a second filed parent genre.

Mediators

community: Auvergnat cabrette players in Paris