brunette (song form)
The brunette is a French song form popular in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.[https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1020&context=ppr "Dance Rhythms of the French Baroque: aHandbook for Performance" By Betty Bang Mather,assisted by Dean M. Karns]. Performance Practice Review 2:1 (1989). Among those who worked in the form was Jacques Hotteterre, who published a collection of flute arrangements of airs and brunettes around 1721.[http://music.instantharmony.net/Lasocki_Doubles_REJ_No5_1999.pdf The Doubles in Jacques Hotteterre's Airs et brunettes (ca. 1721)]. Recorder Education Journal 5 (1999), pp. 21-52. The main source we have for these brunettes is a set of three volumes titled “Brunetes ou petits airs tendres” dated 1703, 1704, and 1711. They were published in duodecimo by Christophe Ballard.