furniture music

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Etymology[edit]

Calque of French musique d’ameublement (literally “furnishing music”), coined by Erik Satie in 1917.

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furniture music (uncountable)

  1. (music) Background music originally played by live performers.
    • 2018, John T. Lysaker, Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 84:
      Furniture music is thus more like a chair than a painting in a gallery. One sits in rather than contemplates the chair. So too furniture music: “it creates vibration; it has no other purpose; it fills the same role as light, warmth and comfort in all its forms.”

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