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Malagueña is a title given to certain types of Spanish dances and songs composed or improvised in a style that originated in the Spanish region of Málaga. The melody divided between the hands at the beginning and end of this piece, as well as the descending LH and RH patterns in the middle sections, are characteristic of the style.

Written by Johann Sebastian Bach, Musette was 22nd in a long string of pieces written in a collection called Notebook for Anna Magdalena. Anna was Bach’s 2nd wife and he most likely wrote each of these etude-like pieces in 1725.