chansonette

She laughed and now John knew that it was she whom he had heard singing the chansonette in that low murmuring tone.

For him Sheridan would flash his best bon-mot, and Theodore Hook play his most practical joke, his swiftest chansonette.

They include a blithe "Chansonette" and a "Valse Impromptu," 440 which, unlike the usual impromptu, has the ex tempore spirit.