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Drone bass

7/12/2017

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Explore music that uses a drone bass with students.
Instruments that produce a drone:
  • Bagpipe music
  • Organ music that uses a pedal point
  • Lute music that uses the lowest course
  • Hurdy-gurdy music
Listen to:
  • Row, Row, Row your Boat with a tonic-dominant drone applied
  • Yankee Doodle with a drone on the banjo
  • Blackbird by the Beatles
  • Haydn Symphony no. 104 in the opening of the finale
  • Wagner Das Rheingold in the Prelude
 

Also listen to Bach’s Musette in D major.  What do you notice?
​Compose a new middle section to this opening.  Continue the drone bass idea.
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