Full Version: What Are Isorhythm, Cantus Firmus And Fauxbourbon?
what are they?
FauxbourDon (confused with a certain type of biscuit? 
) is a series of first inversion chords.
Cantus Firmus = firm song, which is a plainsong melody.
Isorhythm is a musical technique that arranges a fixed pattern of pitches with a repeating rhythmic pattern.
) is a series of first inversion chords.Cantus Firmus = firm song, which is a plainsong melody.
Isorhythm is a musical technique that arranges a fixed pattern of pitches with a repeating rhythmic pattern.
Ah yes, I was going to suggest D but you beat me C !
* thinks of biscuits with imitation chocolate filling*
* thinks of biscuits with imitation chocolate filling*
QUOTE(pianoandflute @ Dec 9 2007, 03:45 PM) 
what are they?
The first one sounds like a heart condition
QUOTE(AnnC @ Dec 9 2007, 11:06 PM)
QUOTE(pianoandflute @ Dec 9 2007, 03:45 PM)
what are they?
The first one sounds like a heart condition
Or some sort of investment...
QUOTE(maggiemay @ Dec 9 2007, 04:41 PM)
* thinks of biscuits with imitation chocolate filling*
Is it bad that I refer to the "biscuit stop" when I talk about registration? ;-)
T.
thank you very much, i just had my uni exam in early music today and it really helped me.
We sing something called "Fauxbourdon" and that's alternating lines of plainsong and "ordinary" music, in our case, set for 3 unaccompanied female voices (Sop 1&2 and Alto). The whole thing is topped and tailed by a plainsong antiphon. Sorry about the lack of technical language, but my technical music vocabulary has just run out.
QUOTE(AnnC @ Dec 9 2007, 11:06 PM)
The first one sounds like a heart condition
Isorhythm: Definitely one for the cardiologists
Cantus Firmus: Sounds like something from orthopaedics
Fauxbourdon: An obscure neurological sign?? (like dysdiadochochinesis only different!)
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