10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FABURDEN»
Discover the use of
faburden in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
faburden and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Harvard Dictionary of Music
Faburden. An English technique of polyphonic vocal improvisation, current from
about 1430 until the Reformation in England and until the late 16th century in
Scotland. Originally designating the lowest voice of such improvised polyphony,
the ...
2
Plainsong in the Age of Polyphony
It may have been an instinctive attraction to tonal unity that led to a
reinterpretation of the structure of faburden, whereby the plainsong came to be
regarded generally as being in the top rather than the middle voice.46
Continental fauxbourdon ...
Thomas Forrest Kelly, 1992
3
English Choral Practice, 1400-1650
By the sixteenth century, a similar kind of faburden had the chant in the top voice
(generally associated with continental fauxbourdon), rather than in the middle. In
Scottish Anonymous's faburden of the First Kind, the chant is usually transposed
...
4
The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory
According to "The sight of ffaburden with his a cordis," faburden is "the least [
simplest] process of sights, natural and most in use."62 The basic process is that
the treble parallels the plainsong in fourths above while the faburden musician
sights ...
5
Essays on the History of English Music in Honour of John ...
In faburden the plainsong melody is sung at two pitches: in the middle voice as
the chant melody, and in the top voice as the 'sighted' chant melody sounding a
fourth higher. The third voice – the faburden – is more distinctive: in simple terms,
...
Emma Hornby, David Nicholas Maw, 2010
6
Tonus Peregrinus: The History of a Psalm-tone and its use in ...
Example 10.4 In exitu Israel, bass part of Sheppard, Byrd and Mundy with chant
melody from Example 3.7 The setting is the product of a peculiar and rare English
technique of constructing free polyphony on a foundation of a faburden bass.
Dr Mattias Lundberg, 2012
7
The History of Keyboard Music to 1700
These works afford a more accurate insight into Redford's handling and
modifications of the faburden technique. The pure faburden, with lower sixths and
octaves, is found again in Verbum supernum, y 2, and Eterne rerum, y 1-i. The
two ...
8
Medieval Music and the Art of Memory
Faburden Let us now turn to the last section of the treatise, entitled “The sight of
faburden with his accords [intervals].” As we shall see, it is nothing else but a
simplified version of discant (Pseudo-Chilston calls it the “least,” that is simplest, ...
Anna Maria Busse Berger, 2005
9
Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century: ...
The enigma is compounded by the existence of a near-cognate English term,
faburden, which denotes something comparable to fauxbourdon but not identical
with it. How (or indeed whether) the two terms and practices are related has been
a ...
10
Music in the Middle Ages: A Reference Guide
The Old Hall Manuscript and other partial sources show several techniques used
in English Church music of the Middle Ages. One technique rarely written out, but
apparently used often, was “faburden.” Faburden Faburden was a polyphonic ...
