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‖ Tafelmusik|ˈtaːfəlmuˌziːk| Also tafelmusik, tafel musik. [Ger., lit. ‘table music’.] 1. Music so printed that parts can be read from the same page by two or more persons seated on opposite sides of a table.
1876Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms 420/1 Tafelmusik,..table music. 1907[see sense 2 below]. 2. Music intended to be performed at a banquet or a convivial meal, esp. popular in the eighteenth century.
1880Grove Dict. Mus. II. 400/1 The Tafelmusik, Nachtmusik, etc., [of Mozart] for wind instruments..often present the most extraordinary combinations. 1907T. S. Wotton Dict. Foreign Mus. Terms 193 Tafelmusik,..(1) Music intended to be sung or played at meal times. (2) Music so arranged that two persons seated at opposite sides of a table can sing from the same page. 1961Times 13 Mar. 3/1 Like the more aimlessly gossipy Tafelmusik of an eighteenth-century composer. 1969Times 29 May 8/5 The analogy was with contemporary tafel musik rather than the wilder shores of radicalism. 1971G. Steiner In Bluebeard's Castle iv. 92 Much of this [eighteenth-century] music was, in fact, conceived as Tafelmusik and aural tapestry around the busy room. 1980Early Music July 300/1 If you seek in your Italian madrigal an escape to remote and perhaps picturesque sonorities, then the last thing you want is to understand it well enough to know why it is different from, say, Gregorian chant or rococo Tafelmusik. 1980Times 19 Aug. 7/3 One of Telemann's many pieces of tafelmusik. |