drone
drone
[English]
1. Any note performed throughout a composition as a sustaining bass note. Drones are common in folk music and in Medieval music.
2. The largest of the three pipes in a bagpipe which sounds one deep note acting as a perpetual base to every tune.
Example
Ritesh Das and Levon Ichkhanian: "Bablo-Lo"
Ritesh Das and Ian de Souza: "Chatterbox"
See Also
[English] organ point[English] pedal point
[English] pedal
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Last Updated: 2016-05-24 00:11:41