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Mensa Sonora, sonorous table; this concept was quite in vogue during the Baroque period. Biber himself used it more than once: his Sonata pro tabula was written for ten voices. One finds comfort in the idea one has, more often than not, of what a court musician should be: a simple provider of easily listening circumstantial music, usually to be heard in the background. In entertaining such an idea, we underestimate the true symbolic worth of the meal, as well as of the music itself.