Associations to the word «Bourdon»
Wiktionary
BOURDON, noun. (music) (archaic) The burden or bass of a melody.
BOURDON, noun. The drone pipe of a bagpipe.
BOURDON, noun. The lowest-pitched stop of an organ.
BOURDON, noun. The lowest-pitched bell of a carillon.
BOURDON, noun. A large, low-pitched bell not part of a diatonically tuned ring of bells.
BOURDON, noun. A bumblebee, genus Bombus.
BOURDON, noun. A pilgrim's staff.
Dictionary definition
BOURDON, noun. A pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone.
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