Mominette

Mominette 2:56
Maxou Heintzen / Parciparla (SACEM)

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The 2022 San Francisco Spring Harmony virtual camp featured a session in which a large group called Fete Musette hung out in a breakout room playing French country dance tunes at a slow pace so anyone could learn the tune and join in. This schottische was the standout among them.

Written in 1981 by the French musician Maxou Heintzen, it has since been shuffled around, adapted, renamed multiple times, and even refashioned as a jig. I managed to find its original name by typing in the first few notes to the invaluable FolkTuneFinder.com site, which knew it at once.

Played and overdubbed on the tenor-treble concertina in D minor.