Venez passer votre soirée du 31 décembre avec l'A.A.J.S.A. One of his first apprentices was Skyler Fell who apparently first started working with him somewhat as a volunteer. The accordion was bigger, louder, and starting to technically evolve. © LeFrancophile 1996 - 2020
Some of them go back to the early 1900s….most are from the 1930s and 40s. With the advantage of World Wide Web, it is possible to be entertained 24/7 with non-stop musette songs.23 With so many influences, it remains firmly rooted in the classical waltz, infinitely suited for jazz, and endearingly appropriate as dance music for all festive occasions. By the time the descendents of these immigrants from various provinces and countries settled in Paris, dancehalls were already beginning to enjoy the sounds of the musette accordion players: Émile “Mimile” Vacher (d. 1969), Joseph Colombo, Marceau Vershuren, and Émil Prudhomme were some names that brought about that positive change in attitude.16. Just as Piaf brought her snappy javas and mournful songs to the streets of Paris, Due Zighi Baci has been bringing these songs to a younger audience who may have never heard of these songs. Listen to “Café Parisien” for a fine musette collection (a lot of Gus Viseur) and a little history behind it all. Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend, chapters 2-3. Finally, the accordion got the respect it deserved when Edith began to feature extremely talented accordionists such as Michel Emer and Tony Murena. Soon he and I began to augment the repertoire with French chanson to complement the Neapolitan and Italian canzone. Explore releases from Yvette Horner at Discogs. Victorians found it pleasant but by 1900, the Gay Nineties had kicked up its heels. The musette name itself also derives from an older small bagpipe-like instrument that was played in the center of France, especially in Auvergne. When tenor Michael Van Why completed his music degree at Sonoma State University, his recital concentrated on the French classical repertoire. 12 Michael Dregni. These types of ‘dirty dancing’ included simulated violence to women in the form of slaps and punches, as well as the sexually charged, intertwining, hands-on one’s partner’s derrière. Angel Cabral’s “La Foule” is an example of a dizzyingly fast java. Mainly photographic but with a good overview. Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 6:00 PM – 11:30 PM UTC+02. They strive to provide a theatrical verisimilitude to complement the music. Vincent Scotto (1876- 1952) went on to write some of the most memorable bal musette songs including “La Java Bleue.” The American singer Josephine Baker and Parisian Edith Piaf debuted, sang and danced to his music. Brittany-born composer Guillaume Yann Tiersen (born 1970) has sustained the musette flair in some of his pieces, including the title hit “La Valse d’Amélie.” In 2007 “Ratatouille” featured jazz accordionist Frank Marocco’s jazz manouche-musette renditions while Chef Linguini worked in the kitchen with the assistance of a culinary rat. Once the piano accordion debuted in the dance halls of San Francisco, it was not long before dance bands put it front and center here as well as in Paris. Shop for Vinyl, CDs and more from Yvette Horner at the Discogs Marketplace. 13 AKA “guinches” or the low-lifes; also refers to seedy places to dance. Americans fell in love with the music, the musicians, and the optimistic energy. In particular, the energetic French javas (somewhat like the energetic Mexican jotas) use parallel keys and sound better when played in “one” rather than a fast triple meter. Viseur was one of the most prolific performers who stayed true to the original musette concert. Shop for Vinyl, CDs and more from Sanseverino at the Discogs Marketplace. The comparison of bagpipe to accordion is puzzling. At first, fierce resistance brought about a racialist attitude. Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) and Stéphane Grapelli (1908-1997) started their careers buskering and in musette bands in Paris before they ‘invented’ the more chromatic, bluesy style of jazz manouche.20. Here are just a few affectionate French denigrations and nicknames: La Boîte à Frissons (The Trembling Box); Le Piano du Pauvre (The Poor People’s Piano); Le Piano aux Bretelles (The Piano with Suspenders).i Whatever you call it, it will respond and transport you to another time and place. 8 juin 2018 - Le bal musette, ce bal populaire où l’on danse au rythme de l’accordéon et de l’ochestre a connu des hauts et des bas depuis sa création. They complemented well. That shared characteristic puts them in the wind instrument category but one would be hard-pressed to call the bagpipe an actual forerunner of the accordion; nevertheless, the concept of pushing air in and out of the bellows is hard to ignore and the musette resonance is unmistakably similar. - Tarifs : Adulte : 50 € (Pour info en 2019 - Menus avec vins, boissons et café compris), Enfant : 25 € (Pour info en 2019 enfant moins de 13 ans). One of the best stories about the affectionate relationship some accordionist have had with the musette tuning comes from Vince Cirelli, a local legend whose accordion repair studio, Cirelli Accordion Service, has been a Mecca for accordionists since it first opened in 1948.ii If you have played an accordion in the San Francisco Bay Area during the past few decades, it has probably been repaired by him. The festival mood kept everyone busy and happy. It was 1910 when Pietro and Guido Deiro, (often cited as the two brothers who elevated it in the United States) introduced it on the West Coast. It was de rigueur. La valsa au village - Jean Lumière, 2. Editions du Felin, 1997. La Fonderie Bruxelles. 1918) an Italian- born accordionist whose prolific compositions include musette waltzes, has contributed to its vitality and played them around the world. What isn’t surprising is that quite a few Italian composers crossed over easily to the bal musette style. More recently there have been memorable Hollywood and European celluloid contributions. It would be interesting to investigate further in your 78 records collection. As I watched Philippe Petit walk on a wire across the Seine from the Trocadéro to the Eiffel Tower, I was transformed into a French citizen. These one-step dances and fast waltzes reveal the resilience of the human heart as it faces perennial heartache and disappointment in the final minor section (which is almost always the return to the first section of the piece). La Scène. Boaz also apprenticed with Cirelli and from Gordon Piantanesi.8 In one of Boaz’s pamphlets he stated a call to action: a paragraph from the prison diaries of Sir Irius Mashin.9 It was a cleverly written plea to accordion players to use a “…socialist musette tuning…” His theory was that a musette switch is a proletariat act against the bourgeoisie. Thanks so much. "Dans ma tête..." prod et txt par Mimo enregistrement par Manimal Shamanic Technique mix/mastering par Else. 31 No photos were available at time of printing. 6 www.accordionapocalypse.com For more details about the encounter with Vince Cirelli, Pietro Deiro, and Mike Corino. Marguerite Monnot, Charles Dumont, and Norbert Glanzberg were Piaf’s stable of composers and pianists. The guests and entertainers all roamed on the fringes of society and talked about visiting “Paname” a pseudonym for the darker side of Paris. pin. These venues provided musette bands to entertain and draw a crowd. Charles Aznavour and others have kept it in their chanson repertoire. In addition, not all of us can carry hundreds of songs in our heads as the often illiterate accordionists did a hundred years ago. He is the living legend with stories that only he can tell. Mar 16, 2012 - This Pin was discovered by Carlos Bernal. With its versatile repertoire and brilliant performance by Odile Lavault on her 4 row chromatic button box, bal musette will not suffer any demise any time soon. The dark world of the Moulin Rouge and its class of women (the demimonde) offered acrobatic entertainment, jugglers, exhibition dancing, skits, and special secret hideaways for a clandestine rendezvous. Mar 16, 2012 - This Pin was discovered by Carlos Bernal. Currently, they perform in local Santa Rosa café venues and accordion clubs. I lived in the 7th arrondissement and spent most of my summer in revolutionary related activities and fun, as well as in cafes, at the Paris Opera, museums, a tour of the sewers, bars, cemeteries, and a trip to the nearly completed Bastille Opera. Accordionists embrace it and breathe life into it. Boaz Rubin and his wife Judith were definitely hoarders as well as deeply involved in their commitment to keep the accordion alive and well. location_on Bal musette avec Dominic Allan 37600 BEAULIEU-LES-LOCHES smartphone Toon nummer smartphone 06 62 86 52 10 mail_outline Bekijk de mail mail_outline contact@guinguette-lesjavanaises.com pin. 27 Rue Ransfort, 1080 Brussels, Belgium. Hosted by Frisse Folk and La Fonderie Bruxelles. His “Echoes of Paris” is still played at Caffè Trieste. Although from the 1960s onwards, rock, disco and newer dance music marginalized the musette accordion, its style survived remarkably well. See pp. The diversity in its repertoire has renewed the dance traditions in France’s popular late 19th century guinguettes. Accordion switches allow the accordionist to achieve various timbre, thus producing an evocative ambience. One of the most memorable venues was Le Montmartre on Broadway, in San Francisco’s North Beach. I have been a Francophile since 6th grade when I was able to take my first French lessons. This decision to develop more of the French dance repertoire and incorporate French chanson has enabled us to explore a much broader repertoire. If there is an official musical instrument of France, it probably became the accordion during this period. Author’s copy. The biogrpahy is remarkable for its audacity, honest portrayal and it is gritty to the core. She enlisted and acquired more musicians as she broadened her repertoire. Hosted by Etoile Musette. That’s why it is important to “faire le boeuf.” Or as the Zydeco accordionists like to say it: “Laissez les bon temps rouler!” Find friends and jam. Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend, chapters 2-3. iii Ibid, p. 142. Lou Casalnuovo, fellow Sicilian accordionist, gave me a manuscript titled “Sogno di Java.”17 Java does not refer to an island, nor is it coffee. Faites votre choix parmi "bal Musette" de photos, images, illustrations, vecteurs, symboles et vidéos libres de droits sur Adobe Stock et téléchargez-les pour vos projets créatifs. It was Viennese citizen Cyrillus Damian who may have come up with the prototype of the accordion in 1829. The Romance language mix challenges both musician and vocalist in new ways. Oxford University Press: 2004. The mandolinist-guitarist Pete Tarzia (1908- 1981) composed in the bal musette fashion using the idioms so essential to the style. The interdisciplinary shows introduce the audience to the meaning behind the French and Italian songs and educate the listeners so that a greater appreciation is gained through the use of a narration, art slides, and images that explain the text. Understand its origins and you will better appreciate those who have spent a lifetime keeping it alive and well. Bal-musette is a style of French music and dance that first became popular in Paris in the 1880s. Discover (and save!) The association and history of dancing, midnight pleasure, and crime dates back to at least the time of the French Revolution in the Bastille district.19. Le p'tit bal du samedi soir - Georges Guetary, 4. The Latin dances would have to wait until the 1920s to establish themselves but they sneaked into the bal musette as pasos dobles with musicians such as Django Reinhardt. Django: the Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend. Here is the link to Radio Tune Thank you for this. We showcase Piaf’s stable of composers such as Charles Trenet, Marguerite Monnot, Charles Dumont, and Vincent Scotto whose numerous songs were adopted by so many Parisian chanteuses including Josephine Baker. In the North Bay, the wine culture produced a home for French and Italians alike. The Italian equivalent is ballo liscio (smooth dancing) or couples dancing 270 rue famille Laurens, 13290 Aix-en-Provence, France. The ballo liscio dances are discussed at length. Alas, the Darwinian forces worked against the cabrette. Jazz musicians used these to enhance improvisation skills. The musette switch sounds as though it is slightly out of tune in its “wet” vibrato resonance. The piano accordion should always be played with a musette switch on if in the performance of bal musette dancing. www.zighibaci.com. Vienna had long been well established as the waltz capital of the world by Johann Strauss. Right through the 1950s, the accordion was the most popular instrument. In 2008, they brought the French Café to life in one evening at the Marin Theatre Company where the staged soirée played to a packed audience.33. Em Dm Ce dont je me souviens Em ce sont ces amoureux C D Qui ne regardaient rien autour d'eux. With so many Italian composers, musicians, accordion manufacturers excelling at what they did, the French music circles had to acknowledge their prodigious contributions to the musette repertoire. It has survived to tell the stories of the Moulin Rouge, the back alleys of Belleville, and the cabaret stages in Pigalle. Ragtime and vaudeville may have competed in the fun and entertainment field but the accordion was everyone’s favorite instrument at summer picnics and dance halls.14 Music catalogs were saturated with arrangements, marches, and polkas but they also expanded the dancehall’s favorite couples’ dances: the one-step, fox trot, mazurka, waltz, and java. 17 “Dream of Java” This dance is included in the sheet music collection. 5ème titre de l'E.P. Her ensemble has excelled at recreating Rive Gauche and Pigalle’s Parisian café scene. Most public dance halls did not charge admission; instead, men purchased tokens minted by each of the bals (dance halls). It was there that the accordion would begin its journey. Dm Em Y'avait tant de lumière Dm Em Avec eux dans la rue, C Dm Alors la belle affaire C D Le nom du bal perdu? I knew nothing about musette until I started researching based on the records I have. Manouche or a gypsy style playing melded with Swing and musette. your own Pins on Pinterest But there is a caveat: once you have played a beautifully tuned accordion with a musette switch, you may never return to the dry-tuned, concert accordion. In the summer of 1989 I was able to fully enjoy being a Francophile at the French Bicentennial. Will I be unable to play the dances? More than a year ago. November 2001. musette translation in French - English Reverso dictionary, see also 'bal musette',musée',musiquette',muse', examples, definition, conjugation p. 74. ii Flynn, Davison, Chavez. It remains a preferred keyboard choice in Italian ballo liscio performances and recordings, too.22. Once jazz infiltrated the musette dance halls, the lively swing style and the graceful vals musette coalesced. But it comes with a caveat. Bal musette ambiance, typique et variétés. More than a year ago. Afternoon and early evening soirées enabled mixed social classes to mingle, lubricated by alcohol consumption (often absinthe or grenadine mixed with something stronger) while breaking through the social and economic barriers. The musette accordion was perfectly suited for the waltz, even more so than piano. The cabrette had not improved in hundreds of years. clock. La Ferme Rose Uccle. These reeds become even more out of tune with the other reeds. 32 http://heleneattia.com/ No amateurs allowed.7 I have great respect for those who can operate on an accordion with the Skill and precision of a surgeon. waltzes, mazurkas, polkas etc. The clarinet or oboe switch is usually heard with more delicate melodies. The “B” section is usually the ‘spinning” or triplet part, sometimes called la toupie. There are several etymologies for this word. Reprint Ernest Deffner Publications, Meneola, NY. The co-mingling of polkas and waltzes has enabled the new owners to thrive and serve a more modern, diverse crowd. “Vive La France”, “Gypsy Serenade” and “Cafe Bohème” have been well attended Fourteenth of July events. 27 Please see my other book, Mandolins, Like Salami, for a more complete biography and music catalogs. Venez faire la révolution ! Play Medley Valses : Sous Les Ponts De Paris / Accordéon Musette — Karaoké Playback Complet Avec Accordéon Song by Karaoke Playback Francais from the album Mon Bal Idéal Vol. Yes… A great idea… This era of French music is so rich in melody and sounds… Great to see a site like this and to discover so much about this music. In the triple meter this often meant that the ‘up beat’ would be the strong beat, rather than the “down beat.”, It featured a rhythmic strumming associated with the banjo and provided an accompaniment to the many nonwritten melodies. Traditionally, it has been cafés and restaurants that have provided what little French music is heard but rarely were the venues for public dancing. Penngrove, CA. 33 Crayon drawing by Janet Baer. clock. Many of the dances were in the musette waltz style (also known as Italian ballo liscio).4 Music would become my focus for my entire life as a result of my early education. French music album by Jean Lumière 1. It took a few decades before the accordion arrived in Paris and its environs. Félix had opened an accordion factory and sold accordions in Paris starting in the early 1890s. This structural form is instantly recognizable, with its minor keys that shift the emotional response to a sad, nostalgic ambience, often coupled with jaunty triplets, and embracing melodies in the major section. La Bastoche: Bal-Musette, plaisir et crime 1750-1939. O.Pagani & Bros. 1956. It is crucial that the proper maintenance of the musette tuning be cared for by experts. If you prefer, they clashed and created an eclectic challenge for musicians and for dancers alike. Written in 1984, her anecdotal chapter provides some insight in the use/abuse of the accordion. Apparently, the gentleman had taken it out on a cruise in the San Francisco Bay. When she approached Boaz about learning the repair business, he was only too happy to educate someone from the younger generation.6 The transmission of this knowledge has included an apprenticeship with the Maestro himself, Vince Cirelli. It was coupled by my beginning studies on accordion. Musette still refers to s small backpack used by soldiers and people alike. In 1904 Al Rossi, an Italian Swiss immigrant opened Little Switzerland in Sonoma County. Ron Flynn, who had conducted the interview with Vince, took it home anyway, and indeed, eventually the reeds rusted. 25 “Live at Le Montmartre”, San Francisco 1979. If there is a trio section (“C” section) it will generally be played in the original minor key or a closely related key; it is a more relaxed section where the dancers can come closer together. 10 Rubin wanted a law requiring accordionists who play block chords to register with the federal government. The Italians had to work hard at being accepted. The musette-tuned accordion music is immensely appealing, evoking the romantic cafes, sidewalks and dance halls of Paris. The Young Turks who replaced the Victorian dandies would swagger onto the dance floor to the delight of the ladies of the evening. He’s produced a couple of CDs with bal musette at the center of his repertoire.30 Michel has also renewed the jazz –gypsy manouche fusion in his band “Rue Manouche.” Based in Sonoma, they present the old Django feel while keeping the bal musette tradition alive. Discover (and save!) Soirées, thés dansants, fêtes locales, repas, voyage organisé, et autres animations annulés. Many accordionists request and prefer the Italian musette tuning, rather than the French tuning, since it is not quite as discordant. Show Map. Le plus beau tango du monde - Tino Rossi, 5. A Twentieth Century history of the musette accordion and French musette dance music in Paris and the San Francisco Bay Area, and includes biographical sketches of accordionists whose repertoire included the dance music. A Bassoon or Bandonéon switch is perfect for tangos. This book provides a series of biographical sketches, background, and firsthand accounts of the pioneering decades of the accordion in San Francisco. 23 http://delicast.com/radio/France/La_Yaute_Valse_Musette Menu à définir. Waltzes were no longer just in long, flowing gowns. 1. Italian immigrants in the south of France, particularly Marseilles, brought their talents and banked on their abilities to give them reliable employment. If you were reading a basic chart, you could experiment with the motifs, straying from the basic line but keeping up with the unpredictable ad-libbing. Finally, it seemed that the discrimination against Italians would subside. Sunday, May 6, 2018 at 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM UTC+02. Paris was filled with all types of entertainment on the streets and in the old haunts. On the other hand, the musette- tuned accordion evolved and vied for dominance; ultimately, it would win. With the 1930s, a world wide depression introduced greater use of legal drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, and other intoxicants. French film has helped in that regard starting in the 1930s with “La Belle Equipe.” Some music scores and composers are stretching the tradition to fit a more contemporary audience. Musette accordion pieces are often written as a java, a fast dance. She has almost single-handedly preserved the musette tradition. Playing from sheet music is good; unfortunately, so much of the old music is in sad shape due to generations of copying, and the music itself, short of flying to Paris, is next to impossible to find. Lou passed away in 2010.