discant

NOUN
  1. a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody

How To Use discant In A Sentence

  • Here, also, in the evenings of the same holy day, he was wont to gather a meeting of old people, to whom he discanted on the same "old, old story. Philosopher Jack
  • Indocti discant et ament meminisse periti (Let the unlearned learn, and the learned delight in remembering). Quotations
  • For three voices, in duple meter, based on a structural duet of discantus and tenor with an added contratenor, and occasionally imitative, they display the usual characteristics of the genre. Archive 2009-05-01
  • Other aspects – repeated notes, homorhythmic textures, rhythmically diminished motivic reworking, and consistent anticipation by the contratenor and discantus of the tenor's melody in one piece, Vostre oeul – bespeak a more modern style. Archive 2009-05-01
  • For many ages men, and particularly those engaged in the literary field of thought, have discanted on the baseness of the passion of jealousy. The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries
  • After the advent of Florid Organum, the older style of note against note was referred to as "discant" organum. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • For three voices, in duple meter, based on a structural duet of discantus and tenor with an added contratenor, and occasionally imitative, they display the usual characteristics of the genre. Archive 2009-05-01
  • The unexpected vision lifted Enoch out of himself for a little while and he listened, interested and amused, while Curly, half turned in his saddle, discanted on mirages and their interpretations. The Enchanted Canyon
  • Under the second article, he discanted largely on the pretension of A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation
  • Like the flute, there was a complete family of oboes in the sixteenth and early in the seventeenth century; the little schalmey, the discant schalmey, from which the present oboe is derived; the alto, tenor, pommer, and bass pommers, and the double quint or contrabass pommer. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
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