Fauxbourdon
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- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047497
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85047497#concept
Variants
- Fau bordon
- Fau wordon
- Fauburdum
- Faul bordon
- Faul wordon
- Faulx bourdon
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Sources
- found: New Grove dict. of mus. WWW site, Feb. 24, 2011:Fauxbourdon [faulx bourdon; fau(l) bordon, fau(l) wordon; fauburdum] (A technique of either improvised singing or shorthand notation particularly associated with sacred music of the 15th century.)
- found: New Harvard dict. of mus.:A15th-century technique of composition, employed in short pieces or sections within longer pieces...two voices are notated ... in the earliest and most widely accepted method of realization, a third voice paralleling the upper part at the fourth below is added in performance.
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Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 2011-03-23: revised
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