Music that contains drones and is rhythmically still or very slow, called "drone music," can be found in many parts of t… 展开

Composer La Monte Young (born 1935) is an important figure in drone music. He described himself as fascinated from a young age by droning sounds, such as "the sound of the wind blowing", the "60 cycle per second dron… 展开

In the mid-1960s, the Beatles began employing Indian-influenced drone elements in psychedelic rock tracks such as "Tomorrow Never Knows" (1966). During this period, Theatre of Eternal Music member … 展开

Across North America and Europe, some musicians sought to reconcile Asian classicalism, austere minimalism and folk music's consonant aspects in the service of spirituality. Among them was Theatre of Eternal Music… 展开

• Drone metal alias Drone doom – a subgenre of heavy metal and doom metal
• Space music – some drone music falls under this umbrella genre 展开

1. ^ Cox & Warner 2004, p. 359 (in "Post-Rock" by Simon Reynolds): "The Velvets melded folkadelic songcraft with a wall-of-noise aesthetic that was half Phil Spector, half La Monte Young—and thereby invented dronolo… 展开