Name: Le Petit Mousse (arr. NAINA JINGA) by Traditional Piano & Vocal Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Naina Jinga
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Le Petit Mousse (arr. NAINA JINGA)
by Traditional Piano & Vocal - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title Le Petit Mousse (arr. NAINA JINGA)

Artist Traditional

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Traditional

Arranger NAINA JINGA

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 8

Arrangement Piano & Vocal

Publisher Naina Jinga

Level 4

Product ID 1785829

Genre Festival Contest 19th Century

Instruments Piano Voice

Product Description

Le Petit Mousse for voice and piano (arranged by Naina Jinga) is based on a traditional French sailor's tune, suitable for intermediate/advanced students.

A mousse is the French word given to apprentices carrying out chores on a ship. They used to be young boys, usually 1216 years old but sometimes as young as 7-8 years old, when they were called a mousaillon. It is only by a decree from 1852 that the boys had to be at least 10 years old to enlist on a ship. The mousses tasks consisted of cooking meals, sweeping the deck, cleaning the chicken coops, tending the animals, scratching the rust, serving the crew. One other important (and dangerous) duty was to scramble up the rigging, in all kinds of weather, whenever the sails had to be trimmed. It is in this particular role alone high up in the mast that the mousse is represented iconographically, time and again.
This enigmatic character inspired also this song.

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