Tafelmusik (musical term)

As Tafelmusik background music for parties, banquets and similar occasions was called in the 16th and 17th centuries. The term was referred accordingly to scores that were written for this purpose. Tafelmusik could be instrumental or vocal; For obvious reasons, it was often a bit lighter than music for other occasions.

Among the most famous composer of such works, Johann Hermann Schein, whose Banchetto musicale in 1617 was created and quickly became famous, and Michael Praetorius, who in his Syntagma Musicum in 1619 are also theoretically dealt with it. Bill collection is still often used by early music ensembles. Similar Items for music of the same use were musical Tafelkonfekt, table service, Mensa sonora, Encaenia Musices, Mensa Harmonica, Musical keypad operation, Musique pour les soupers du Roi or Musical Banquet.

The most commonly known example is the Tafelmusik by Georg Philipp Telemann ( 1733). Also it shows the ability of the composer to master the different genres and instruments. At the same time this work in a way, a final point of development is: In the 18th century such music was mostly ( not always) called Divertimento.

A concrete example is also testimony to the emergence and centuries- long aftermath of the genus, is the famous Tafelmusik, in his 1787 his opera Don Giovanni initiates the final banquet of the title character with the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and thereby a short excerpt from The Marriage of Figaro himself quotes. Mozart Tafelmusik - as well as most Divertimentos - by an ensemble of woodwinds played.

As a reaction to the romance in the 20th century was the term used music. Composers like Eric Satie ( Musique d' ameublement ), Paul Hindemith ( Plön Musiktag ) and other related - for different reasons - to the tradition of writing music to accompany extra-musical events. A late reflex also Musique pour le Souper du Roi Ubu by Bernd Alois Zimmermann dar.

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