How To Use bourdon In A Sentence
- François-Louis Bourdon (1758-98), known as Bourdon de l'Oise, represented the Oise in the National Convention and aligned himself with the conspiracy against Robespierre in the spring of 1794. Names
- Bourdons are stopped pipes, that are only half the length of an open pipe of the same pitch.
- Bourdons are always stopped pipes, thus they provide a rather muffled sound.
- Up to four unstopped strings, called bourdons, sound drones.
- As might reasonably be expected, the manual BOURDONS are made of a much smaller scale than those introduced in the Pedal Organ.
- The scale for the Bourdon pipes is the same as the Soubasse pipes except two notes smaller.
- Before us was the "bourdon," so called, weighing 2,200 pounds, the bronze monster upon which the bass note was sounded, and which sounded the hour over the level fields of Flanders. Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders
- His admission to the National Convention resulted from an electoral mix-up, when electors from the Oise nominated "Bourdon, substitute procureur at Paris and one of the conquerors of the Bastille. Names
- Ax 'et malou vont bientot mourir et ca me fout le bourdon alors voila quoi ... Pinku-tk Diary Entry
- His Pange lingua is a delicate hymn written in a fauxbourdon technique imitated from the English and also used by Binchois for his Veni creator. Archive 2009-06-01
