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Discant

noun
1.
A decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody.  Synonym: descant.






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"Discant" Quotes from Famous Books



... king, who still continued in his wilfull couetousnesse, pulling from the rich and welthie, to waste and spend it out in all excesse, vaine riot, and gifts bestowed on such as had least deserued the same. And yet he was warned by manie strange woonders (as the common people did discant) to refraine from these euill doings: for the Thames did rise with such high springs and tides, that manie townes were drowned, and much hurt doone in places about London, and elsewhere. Diuerse rare things happened also at ...
— Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) - William Rufus • Raphael Holinshed

... et Catholicus in gratiam Juventutis conscriptus, Autore Iacobo Schoeppero, Ecclesiasta Tremoniano. Cui accessit Pium diurnarum precum Enchiridion, ex quo pueri toto die cum Deo colloqui discant. Antverpiae, apud Ioan. ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 • Various

... Hennessey, and stared into the fire. Then the spirit moving her, she began to discant on ...
— The Ghost Girl • H. De Vere Stacpoole



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