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Enticement and the music of the bagpipe

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France, 18th century

Enticement and the music of the bagpipe
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Young French piper as wandering minstrel playing for a girl who is also being taught the rudiments of the whistle by his companion in the 18th century. Earlier Renaissance traditions of troubadour poets, singers and minstrels began to be adopted as part of a fashionable guise for pastoral concerts and festivals in 18th century Europe. Finely made cornemuses were used by professional musicians and also by the aristocracy in the fĂȘte champetre organised for the courts of Louis XIV and Louis XV. A taste for the rustic and arcadian was characteristic of the European aristocracy until the French Revolution.

Enticement and the music of the bagpipe.

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