Tafelmusik: EMS 11 September

[doversoul1]

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Hannah French looks at the tradition of Tafelmusik. Musique de Table. Table Music. It's music composed to divert, entertain, and yes, be performed around a table.

Hannah visits the British Library to talk to the Curator of Music Manuscripts Andra Patterson about an incredible manuscript of Table Music held there: a 'booke of In nomines and other solfainge songs of 5, 6, 7 and 8 parts for voyces or Instruments'
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07tyznt

[doversoul1]

Well structured and competently delivered but sounded rather too much like a lecture. Still, lots of good music, so that was good.

I’m not quite convinced that the ‘table music’ in the British Library by Tallis and Byrd et al., those scores that could be read by the players standing or sitting round the table, can be talked about under the same title as Telemann’s Table Music.

Oh and Hannah French, please do not talk over the music. That’s just not on on the Early Music Show.

[Quarky]

Well structured and competently delivered but sounded rather too much like a lecture. Still, lots of good music, so that was good.

I’m not quite convinced that the ‘table music’ in the British Library by Tallis and Byrd et al., those scores that could be read by the players standing or sitting round the table, can be talked about under the same title as Telemann’s Table Music.
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A little research on Wiki shows Hannah's program followed quite closely the wikipedia entry for Table Music.

However the Wiki entry for Telemann contains no refernce specifically to Table Music, among his 3000 compositions. There is however a footnote to Tafelmusik, which indicates it is used in a slightly different sense :Tafelmusik (1733) ('Tafelmusik' refers to music meant to accompany a meal)

[Richard Tarleton]

I’m not quite convinced that the ‘table music’ in the British Library by Tallis and Byrd et al., those scores that could be read by the players standing or sitting round the table

Or in railway carriages (1:06 or so onwards) - posted before but an old fave.

Yes I wasn't sure whether music that could be read by players sitting round a table was quite the same category as music played for people were eating but won't nit-pick . An enjoyable programme.