Drone music
Bordun music is a term from today's practice of traditional music in the German-speaking area, folk music care, folk and so-called medieval music. Music making on the basis of one or more drone notes is called drone music, see also drone .
The term drone music distinguishes music with from music without drone, as its harmonic and tonal possibilities are different. In musical practice it is used to express that music is being made in such a way that the possibilities of making music with drone have priority:
Keys and modes are usually chosen so that the drone is the same as the tonal center or its fifth , even with key changes and modulations , apart from very short deviations . For this reason, keys and modes of the same name are preferred.
Making music in keys and modes in which the drone is not the same as the tonal center or its fifth would lead to dissonant harmonies in places where consonance is expected in many musical genres .
When choosing the harmonies , the drone is taken into account. When in doubt, the drone is right and the harmony is wrong.
The intonation is aligned to the drone and therefore not tempered equally. Instruments with fixed pitches must therefore be tuned accordingly for making music together.
The drone makes the interplay between consonant and dissonant sounds particularly audible, which creates a distinctive musical color.
Web links
- Sheet music collection and pieces for drone music
- BordunMusikTage in Zeillern / Mostviertel
- Gerlinde Haid : drone. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .