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 Doubles in Jacques Hotteterre's Airs et brunettes (ca. 1721)
''Recorder Education Journal'' 5 (1999), pp. 21-52.

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