faburden

• There was something beautifully human in the way the professor turned the traditional stiff and starched catechism into a delightfully informal chat, in which the faburden, the Netherland School, early notation, the great clavichord players, suites and sonatas, formed the main topics. —  Edward MacDowell
• I now proceed to give the kernel of Mr. Collier's argument, omitting nothing that is really important to the question Give me the man' (says Nash) 'whose extemporal vein, in any humour, will excel our greatest art masters_' deliberate thoughts Green, in 1588, says he had been 'had in derision' by 'two gentlemen poets' because I could not make my verses get on the stage in tragical buskins, every word filling the mouth like the faburden of Bow-bell, daring God out of heaven with that atheist tamburlane, or blaspheming with the mad priest of the sun Farther on he laughs at the 'prophetical spirits' of those 'who set the end of scholarism in an English blank-verse Marlowe took his degree of Master of Arts in the very year when Nash was unable to do so, &c I thus arrive at the conclusion, that Christopher Marlowe was our first poet who used blank-verse in dramatic compositions performed in public theatres."--_Hist. —  Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850
• "Green, in 1588, says he had been 'had in derision' by 'two gentlemen poets' because I could not make my verses get on the stage in tragical buskins, every word filling the mouth like the faburden of Bow-bell, daring God out of heaven with that atheist tamburlane, or blaspheming with the mad priest of the sun. —  Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850
• Superseding the primitive unisonous plain-song, the old parallel concords, and the simple faburden (faux bourdon) counterpoint that succeeded Gregory, they taught how musical tones can better assist worship with the beauty of harmony and the precision of scientific taste. —  The Story of the Hymns and Tunes

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