Fauxbourdon (also fauxbordon, and also commonly two words: faux bourdon or faulx bourdon, and in Italian falso bordone) – French for false drone – is a technique of musical harmonisation used in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, particularly by composers of the Burgundian School. Guillaume Dufay was a prominent practitioner of the form (as was John Dunstaple), and may have been its inventor. The homophony and mostly parallel harmony allows the text of the mostly liturgical lyrics to be understood clearly.
Fauxbourdon (also fauxbordon, and also commonly two words: faux bourdon or faulx bourdon, and in Italian falso bordone) – French for false drone – is...
etymologically related fauxbourdon, and the historical use of the terms is not consistent. Guilielmus Monachus describes both fauxbourdon (set in three voices)...
would be accompanied a fourth below. Also important was the practice of Fauxbourdon, which is a three-voice technique (not infrequently improvisatory) in...
including masses, motets, Magnificats, hymns, simple chant settings in fauxbourdon, and antiphons within the area of sacred music, and rondeaux, ballades...
the Duke of Bedford, Dunstaple would have been introduced to French fauxbourdon; borrowing some of the sonorities, he created elegant harmonies in his...
fauxbourdon, a harmonization of an existing chant in parallel 6-3 chords, occasionally ornamented to prevent monotony. Composition using fauxbourdon allowed...
sings a simple fauxbourdon based on the original plainsong chant for the Tonus peregrinus; the other choir sings a similar fauxbourdon with pre-existing...
textural contrast within the compositions themselves: simple chordal or fauxbourdon-like passages are contrasted with other sections of contrapuntal complexity...
Debussy and other Impressionists which traces back to the tradition of fauxbourdon. It leads into a larger section which begins with a left hand arpeggio...
coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; with a brass fanfare and borrowing a fauxbourdon setting by John Dowland. The 1893 song "The Volunteer Organist" by George...
succession of first-inversion triads, it has inevitably become confused with fauxbourdon, with which it has "no connection whatsoever". This misinterpretation...
incipit "Pytagoras, Jobal, et Orpheus" . A a three-voice Gloria "in fauxbourdon-like style" found in the Apt codex (ff. 25v/26r) is also attributed to...
movements. His music is typical of the early Burgundian style, using fauxbourdon techniques (frequent 6-3 parallelism in two voices singing above the...
lowest drone pipe of a bagpipe, sometimes called a bourdon Faux bourdon, fauxbourdon, faburden or falsobordone, terms applied (without perfect consistency)...
textural contrast within the compositions themselves: simple chordal or fauxbourdon-like passages are contrasted with other sections of contrapuntal complexity...
the Duke of Bedford, Dunstaple would have been introduced to French fauxbourdon; borrowing some of the sonorities, he created elegant harmonies in his...
"6-3" sonority) are common, and formed the basis of fifteenth-century fauxbourdon style. As an example of this type of allowed parallel perfect fourth...
(Liebert), another Burgundian composer who was one of the first to use fauxbourdon in a setting of the Ordinary of the Mass. It is also possible that Clement...
the few collections of English music to survive from the 15th century. Fauxbourdon Gimell Records Ernest H. Sanders: "Gymel", Grove Music Online ed. L....
harmonization for a stanza descant sung by sopranos, above the melody "Fauxbourdon" with the melody sung by tenors, and the harmonies sung by the other...
sections. The chords of the right hand in the beginning constitute a fauxbourdon texture, in contrast to the left hand's chromatic passage. The middle...
Problem der Tenorgeige, Musikalische Gegenwartsfragen I, 1949 Bourdon und Fauxbourdon – Studien zum Ursprung der niederländischen Musik, 1950 Fünf echte Bildnisse...
were afterwards reintroduced. For singing, the Ordinal of 1312 allowed fauxbourdon, at least on solemn occasions; organs and organists are mentioned with...
School, a contemporary of Guillaume Dufay, and one of the first to use fauxbourdon in a mass setting. Little to nothing is known of his life. He may be...
namely durability …" The texture is mostly homophonic, with a hint of fauxbourdon in the harmony; the subject matter is erotic, with the orgasmic "thousand...
new form of choral design with similarities to medieval organum and fauxbourdon. The same period saw the popularity of homophoning songs which are recorded...
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