faburdenn.
Music. Obsolete exc. Historical.
1. ‘One of the early systems of harmonizing a given portion of plain-song or a canto fermo, afterwards used as a term for a sort of harmony consisting of thirds and sixths, added to a canto fermo’ (Stainer and Barrett).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > counterpoint > faux-bourdon
faburden1529
falso bordone1740
faux-bourdon1879
14.. Chilston in J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music (1776) II. 228 Faburdun hath but two sightis, a thyrd aboue the plain~song in sight, the which is a syxt fro the treble in uoice; and euen wyth the plain-song in sight, the wheche is an eyghth from the treble in uoise.
1462 W. Wey Itin. (Roxb.) ii. 96 Cantabamus in honore Dei et beate Marie Magnificat, in faburthon.
1484 Visitations of Southwell Minster (Camden) 46 In cantando faburdon non servat ritum chori.]
1529 Will of John Robynson (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/23) f. 41 Preestes..whiche shall singe playn songe and faburden.
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) i. l. 500 in Shorter Poems (1967) 38 In Modulatioun hard I play and syng Faburdoun [1579 Edinb. Fabourdoun], priksang, discant.
?1590–1 J. Burel Discription Queens Entry Edinb. in Poems sig. L3 Fabourdoun fell, with decadence, With priksang, and the singing plane.
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke Annot. sig. (∴) Here is an example, first the plainsong, and then the Faburden.
1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 139 What has since been called Counterpoint, or, in old English, Faburden.
2.
a. The undersong; = burden n. 9.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > a song > [noun] > undersong
undersong1579
faburden1587
1587 G. Gascoigne Hundred Flowers in Wks. 94 When the descant sings in treble tunes above..let fa burthen say below I liv'd and dide for love.
1587 G. Gascoigne Fable of Ieronimi Y ij b His mistresse liked..to sing faburden under him.
1609 Pammelia 70 The fourth must sing the Faburthen [Bome, bome on the first line of the stave].
1622 R. Tisdale Lawyers Philos. Sighing a sad faburthen from my quill To thy more nimble warblings.
b. The refrain; = burden n. 10.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > a song > [noun] > refrain
refraid?a1439
overword?a1513
refrain1530
foot1538
counterverse1570
faburden1580
burden1598
holding1598
chorus1601
foreburden1603
bob1606
ludden1607
down1611
nonnya1616
rame?c1625
tag1717
overcome?a1800
overturn1825
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 44 Leaste thou come in againe with thy fa-burthen.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. K4v Hee accustomed to make it the Faburden to anie thing hee spake.
1634 C. Fitzgeffry Blessed Birth-day 14 Be sure no better straine then this can be The sweet Faburthen to their Melodie.
3. A legend, motto.
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society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [noun] > motto or legend
reasona1387
wordc1390
posya1450
poesyc1450
pose?1450
legend?a1500
mot1575
motto1589
faburden1594
device1735
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. I On his target he had a number of crawling wormes kept vnder by a blocke, the faburthen Speramus lucent.
4. attributive quasi-adj. ? High-sounding.
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1596 T. Lodge Wits Miserie 9 Mirabile, miraculoso, stupendo, and such faburthen words.
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