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Burdon vs Bourdon - What's the difference?

burdon | bourdon |

As a proper noun burdon

is .

As a noun bourdon is

(music|archaic) the burden or bass of a melody.

burdon

English

Etymology

From (etyl) burdonem

Noun

(en noun)
  • A mule born of a horse and a she-ass.
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    bourdon

    English

    (wikipedia bourdon)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (music, archaic) The burden or bass of a melody.
  • *1985 , (Anthony Burgess), Kingdom of the Wicked :
  • *:The earth tremors resumed and made a bourdon to the loud psalms that they sang, interspersed with the odd ode of Horace recited by Silas.
  • The drone pipe of a bagpipe.
  • The lowest-pitched stop of an organ.
  • *1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , Vintage 2007, p. 5:
  • *:The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.
  • The lowest-pitched bell of a carillon.
  • A large, low-pitched bell not part of a diatonically tuned ring of bells.
  • A bumblebee, genus Bombus .
  • A pilgrim's staff.

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