Musette style music

**Jim Garber** · Nov-03-2006, 12:56pm

You can get all the Beuscher books at, you guessed it, Paul Beuscher.

That Viseur CD seems to be out of print and the one at Amazon is $50.

Jim

**Paul Kotapish** · Nov-03-2006, 1:40pm

Here's a band from NC that specializes in musette on guitars, using Django-style DuPont and Favino instruments.

http://www.musetteguitars.com/

Very nice. They capture the overlap of styles between the musette and manouche idioms.

**Jim Garber** · Nov-03-2006, 3:19pm

Flambée Montalbanaise seems to be the Orange Blossom Special of musette. Pearl Django also does it on one of their CDs.

Jim

**Jean-Pierre WOOS** · Nov-03-2006, 5:00pm

Hi all,

Here are some links about "swing-musette" a major french style of music...

A good friend of mine: Max Marcilly
http://perso.orange.fr/accordeoniste...index.htm#menu

Probably the greatest one, Jo Privat:
http://swingjo.apinc.org/home.php

links from Jo Privat to swing-musette
http://swingjo.apinc.org/liens.php?cat=swing+musette

Have a good time

JeePee

**Jean-Pierre WOOS** · Nov-03-2006, 5:06pm

Wow ! here are 329 scores !

http://swingjo.apinc.org/downloads.php

You have to register in the forum then it's free...

... but in french

**jmcgann** · Nov-03-2006, 5:21pm

Ah, but registrations are currently closed

**Jean-Pierre WOOS** · Nov-03-2006, 5:40pm

Yes, sorry...
It's a technical problem at the server.
Normaly, it could be quickly fixed ...
We hope it...

**Lefty&French** · Nov-04-2006, 2:06pm

Hi JeePee. I'm working on "Blue Moon of Samois"!

See you soon at the Vichy Bluegrass (& manouche) Weekend.

**Jean-Pierre WOOS** · Nov-06-2006, 2:54pm

Arf ! I'm working on "Bluegrass minor" and "Bill's bolero"...
Hé, Phil, it's a bluegrass weekend !
Manouche too ?
NO...!

**Elliot Luber** · Nov-08-2006, 9:37am

Accordians are way cool. What makes instruments not cool are bad musicians and record labels pushing fads, pumping out more of the same that sells and suddenly creating a negative image in the public mind. I love that song "Music for a Found Harmonium" from the wrap-up scene in Napoleon Dynamite. A really fun tune on mandolin. Yes, a Harmonium is a reed organ and not an accordian, but they're similar in how they work, blowing air over a reed. REM did a lot to re-establish both the mandolin and accordian in the rock idiom -- but by deliberately bypassing major labels with college radio.

**Paul Kotapish** · Nov-08-2006, 12:59pm

Originally Posted by (Santiago @ Nov. 08 2006, 06:37)

I love that song "Music for a Found Harmonium" from the wrap-up scene in Napoleon Dynamite. A really fun tune on mandolin. Yes, a Harmonium is a reed organ and not an accordian, but they're similar in how they work, blowing air over a reed.

Forgive a short detour in the thread to set the record straight.

The (shamefully uncreditied) performance of "Music for a Found Harmonium" in Napolean Dynamite was actually by the Irish group Patrick Street. The reed sound was made by a two-row diatonic accordion played by maestro Jacky Daly, one of the greatest living Irish accordionists. The film-credit issue has been a sore point with the band, so I encourage everyone to set the record straight. The performance is available on CD, including this compendium.

The original version of the song was by Simon Jeffes and the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, and they get credit for the performance in the film. Their version is wonderful and has been used in several other soundtracks (the great Australian comedy Malcolm, for example), but it is an entirely different arrangement and it sounds nothing like the version in the film. I believe that original recording actually did include an true harmonium.

Harmoniums (or is that harmonia?) come in a couple of varities, both foot powered (common in England and Ireland) and the Indian style hand-bellows models.

Not sure what kind Mr. Jeffe's had in mind when he penned the tune, but they both sound good with mandolins.

**Paul Hostetter** · Nov-16-2006, 11:26am

The Beuscher books have about all of it. Danny Newton has them memorized cover to cover, all volumes. He's amazing.

Originally Posted by

I thought Musette was early (16th century) French country music, played on a unique pipe. It became popular amongst the "better" people, moved to the urban ballrooms and parlors, and then fell out of favor, returning to its country origins.

Musette refers to an old name for art-grade court bagpipe music and more specifically refers now to the music played by people from the impoverished Auvergne who had moved en masse to Paris in the late 1800s and brought their culture with them. Originally their dancehalls had bagpipes they called cabrettes (little goats) and fiddles playing bourées and scottishes. As time went on, accordions and guitar-banjos took over from the bagpipes and fiddles, and the music evolved into the couple dance stuff we associate with the Moulin Rouge (a real Auvergnat joint, by the way). This was Django’s starting point. Then he and everyone else started listening to Louis Armstrong, Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti, and it was all over.

Originally Posted by

i think NPR noticed because Robert Crumb was sitting in with some of the locals around the Villa that some fan of his cartoons gave him.

This is so wrong and so insulting. He has a simple house, not a villa. He bought and paid for it by selling his art, which is what he’s been doing for a living for many years. He plays music because he loves to play music.

**mandroid** · Nov-17-2006, 4:10pm

I stand corrected. out in the boonies all there is is rumors.

**John Morton** · Nov-20-2006, 6:52pm

Originally Posted by (jgarber @ Nov. 03 2006, 12:56)

You can get all the Beuscher books at, you guessed it, Paul Beuscher.

That Viseur CD seems to be out of print and the one at Amazon is $50.

Jim

The "Gus Viseur in Brussels" CD is for sale ($15.98) at Down Home Music, whose inventory seems invisible to web searches.
Try www.downhomemusic.com, search for "Viseur". The first part of the album title is apparently "LES AS DU MUSETTE"

John

**Jim Garber** · Nov-20-2006, 7:00pm

Thanks, John. Here is what I found at Down Home Music:

Item # Artist Title Format Price
IRI3001047 MURENA/VISEUR/CARRARA/FER SWING DE MUSETTE CD $17.98
FRAA010 VISEUR*GUS COMPOSITIONS 1934-1942 CD $14.98
FRAA10 VISEUR*GUS COMPOSITIONS 1934-1942 CD $16.97
F&A2710 VISEUR*GUS COMPOSITIONS 1934-42 CD $15.98
SKET222006 VISEUR*GUS LES AS DU MUSETTE-GUY VIS CD $15.98

**Paul Hostetter** · Nov-21-2006, 1:59am

**Jean-Pierre WOOS** · Nov-26-2006, 5:17pm

How Gypsy jazz came from musette ?
See here:
http://www.jazzpartout.com/jazzmanou...che_Django.htm

**Jim Garber** · Dec-01-2006, 8:54am

Tangential to all or some of this discussion: I found the soundtrack for "Curb Your Enthusiasm" available on both Amazon and on iTunes. A nice combination of French and Italian musette and ballo liscio style music.

1. Frolic - Luciano Michelini
2. Bubba Dub Bossa - Robby Poitevin
3. Beach Parade - Armando Trovaioli
4. For Whom The Bell Tolls - Gianni Ferrio
5. The Stranger - Alessandro Alessandroni
6. Tango Passionate - Piero Umiliani
7. Ein Swei March - Renato Rascel
8. Suspicion - Ennio Morricone
9. Solo Dance - Italo Greco
10. Moulin Rouge Waltz - Teddy Lasry
11. Walk Cool - Nino Oliviero Listen
12. Slow On The Uptake - Luis Bacalov
13. Corfu - Eric Gemsa Listen Listen
14. Thrills And Spills - Stefano Torossi
15. The Puzzle - Franco Micalizzi
16. Au Vieux - Christian Sebasto Toucas
17. Merry Go Round - Armando Trovaioli
18. Riviera Nostalgia - Jacques Mercier
19. La Ballada Di Periferia - Jacques Mercier
20. The Little People - Carlo Rustichelli
21. Mazurka Bastiaise - Jean Michel Panunzio
22. Spinning Waltz - Piero Umiliani
23. Amusement - Franco Micalizzi
24. Frolic (30 Second Edit) - Luciano Michelini

Jim