Table Music
(1) Music intended to be sung by several people sitting around a table. (2) Music appropriate for entertainment during the pauses in the "serious" work of eating and drinking.
Tabor, Tabret, Taboret. A small drum, like a tambourine without the "jingles."
It hung in front of the performer, who beat it with one hand and played a "pipe flageolet with the other. or Tacet (Lat.), Tace (It.) (tah'-cheh). Be silent, or "is silent; " signifies that the instrument thus marked is silent during the phrase or movement; as Andante tromboni tacet, during the "andante" the trombones are silent.