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descant::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | discant |
| Type of | accompaniment, support, backup, musical accompaniment |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | sing |
descant::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | talk about, discourse, discuss |
Examples of descant
descant
Thus the debate on Browne was overlaid by a dissonant descant of misunderstanding.
From the guardian.co.uk
His biography is a descant to the last 50 years of American foreign policy.
From the swampland.time.com
Actually, at times Mr. Dusinberre sounded like descant above the rest.
From the post-gazette.com
A powerful few, armed with megaphones, provide a descant over the chorus.
From the economist.com
Does the gloaming echo with prelude to the nightingale's descant?
From the theatlantic.com
A brass choir picks up fragments of the tune, while a boys'chorus adds a heavenly descant of Kyrie Eleison.
From the time.com
Incense hangs in the air as the choir's descant reverberates off the highly polished walls of the Greek-style interior.
From the time.com
Classroom instructors most commonly use the descant.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The only sound on the sales floor is the descant of commerce, the clink of coins being counted and dropped in cash register drawers.
From the nytimes.com
- A decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody
- Sing in descant
- Yodel: sing by changing register; sing by yodeling; "The Austrians were yodeling in the mountains"
- Talk at great length about something of one's interest
- Descant or discant can refer to several different things in music, depending on the period in question; etymologically, the word means a voice (cantus) above or removed from others.
- Begun in 1970 as a mimeographhttp://www.descant.ca/about.html, Descant has become a literary and art focused journal. Based out of Toronto, Ontario Descant is a quarterly Canadian journal with most issues revolving around a central theme. ...
- A lengthy discourse on a subject; a counterpoint melody sung or played above the theme; To discuss at length; To sing or play a descant
- A vocal part or parts added above the highest part and intended to be performed by treble voices along with the ensemble.
- A melodic part pitched higher than and concurrent with the melody.
