bordone

For the alternate verses the following falso bordone arrangement by Ciro

The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book Various

Sometimes the chanted verses alternated with harmonized plainsong, sometimes with falso bordone having original melodies in the same mode as the plain song.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Settings in which the utterances of the turba, in falso-bordone style, alternate with the liturgical melodics are numerous.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

Contrary motion and rhythmical differentiation of the voices, as against the parallel motion and equal notes in all voices of the organum, gymel, and falso-bordone, now became the general practice, and the necessity arose of formulating rules governing the incipiency, movement, and return to the point of rest or consonance of the different voices of the composition.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

Later, the third below was transposed an octave higher, giving rise to the falso-bordone, faux-bourdon, or false bass.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

A barytone of a kindred nature was the viola di bordone or drone viol, so called because there was a suggestion of the buzzing of drone-flies, or humble bees, in the tones of its sympathetic strings, which often numbered as many as twenty-four.

For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music Aubertine Woodward Moore 1885

In the meantime (about 1300-1375), the occasional use of thirds and sixths in the diaphonies previously explained led to an entirely different kind of singing, called _falso bordone_ or _faux bourdon_ (_bordonizare_, "to drone," comes from a kind of pedal in organum that first brought the third into use).

Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Edward MacDowell 1884

Wilhelm apparently knew a good deal about music and liked to talk about it; thus Lassus could send him a letter (11 March 1578) entirely made up of musical puns and jokes, mentioning other composers such as Rore, Clemens non Papa and Arcadelt, and referring jokingly to musical terms, as in the description of ‘una baligia senza pause, coperta di passagi di molte cadenze fatte in falso bordone a misura di macaroni’ (‘a valise without rests, covered with passage-work of many cadences made from falsobordoni the size of macaroni’).

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