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Definition of Discant

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

Definition of Discant

1. n. See Descant, n.

Definition of Discant

1. to descant [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: descant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Discant

Literary usage of Discant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish by Eugene O'Curry (1873)
"Originally, discant was made with voices, but later a third, ... Accor to the number of parts thus added, the discant was call motet, a triplum, ..."

2. The Oxford History of Music by William Henry Hadow (1901)
"CHAPTER VI discant OR MEASURED MUSIC THE MEASURED NOTATION AND ITS RELATION TO FIXED RHYTHMS THE wide divergence of the methods of artistic music from those ..."

3. Geschichte der Musik by August Wilhelm Ambros, Gustav Nottebohm, B. von Sokolowsky, Carl Ferdinand Becker, Heinrich Reimann, Otto Kade (1889)
"Resolut io, Tenor ad lo discant. Contratenor. Tenor. Bassus. A- A- gnus Codex N. 1783 der kkHofbibliothek in Wien (ehemals im Besitze des König-Emanuel des ..."

4. Cartularium Prioratus de Gyseburne, Ebor. Dioeceseos, Ordinis S. Augustini by Guisborough priory, William Brown (1894)
"... ipsis fugientibus, non plus consecuti sumus nisi vulgäre verbum, " Quid potui ego." l Unde successores in posterum ex nostra negligentia discant ..."

5. Stokes' Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians: Covering the Entire Period of by Leander Jan De Bekker (1908)
"... usually at the interval of a third; ever, substitutes a narcotic for the Gimel. discant for two voices, to administer poison. Gioconda, how- divided. ..."

6. A General History of Music from the Infancy of the Greek Drama to the by William Smyth Rockstro (1886)
"discant. THE INVENTION OF THE TIME-TABLE. have seen the closing years of the 4th century illustrated by the labours of S. Ambrose, and those of the 6th, ..."

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