### court band
Collective term for all musicians who played music in a court. However, this group of musicians may not be interpreted in the same way as bands are today, since not all the musicians played together. Depending on their function and their instruments, the players of different instruments and singers played music in different arrangements. Right until the 18th century the main characteristic feature of court music was the playing of musicians together in smaller groups, what is today's chamber-music. KP