Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.
A tambourin is a piece of music that imitates a drum usually as a repetitive not-very-melodic figure in the bass.A tambourin itself is a small two-headed drum of Arabic origin mentioned as early as the 1080s (noted as a tabor in Roman de Roland). It was played together with a small flute (galoubet flaviol).A tambourin as a dance hails from Provence.