Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medieval music: The rudest kind of polyphony, consisting of a melody or cantus firmus with the third and sixth added to each tone: not radically different from
organum . - noun Later, the process or act of adding a simple counterpoint to a cantus, especially by improvisation.
- noun A drone-bass or a refrain; a burden.
- Monotonous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete, obsolete A species of counterpoint with a drone bass.
- noun obsolete A succession of chords of the sixth.
- noun obsolete A monotonous refrain.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music A kind of
counterpoint with adrone bass . - noun music A
succession ofchords of thesixth . - noun obsolete A
monotonous refrain .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word faburden.
Examples
-
The term ‘faburden’ originally designated the lowest voice in an English technique of polyphonic vocal improvisation that enabled a group of soloists or a choir to sing at sight a three-part harmonization of plainchant, derived from the notes of the chant itself.
Archive 2008-02-01 bls 2008
-
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 Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939 1908
-
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 Lawrence Gilman 1908
-
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 Theron Brown 1873
-
"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.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.