Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Germany, especially from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, a musician, usually a player upon some instrument, employed by a town or city to superintend or take part in official or municipal music. Such musicians constituted small licensed gilds, receiving municipal patronage. As a title, town-musician denotes a municipal organist or band- and chorus-leader. See
town-organist andtownpiper .
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Examples
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“There,” he thought, “I can surely be town-musician.”
Household Tales 2003
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I tell you what, said the donkey, I am going to Bremen, and shall be town-musician there; go with me and engage yourself also as a musician.
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There, he thought, I can surely be town-musician.
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You understand night-music, so you can be a town-musician.
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You understand night-music, you can be a town-musician.”
Household Tales 2003
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“I tell you what,” said the donkey, “I am going to Bremen, and shall be town-musician there; go with me and engage yourself also as a musician.
Household Tales 2003
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You understand night-music, you can be a town-musician. "
Household Tales by Brothers Grimm Jacob Grimm 1824
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"I tell you what," said the donkey, "I am going to Bremen, and shall be town-musician there; go with me and engage yourself also as a musician.
Household Tales by Brothers Grimm Jacob Grimm 1824
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