A decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody
Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song.
Noun
a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody
Verb
talk at great length about something of one''s interest
Verb
sing by changing register; sing by yodeling; "The Austrians were yodeling in the mountains"
Verb
sing in descant
v. i.
Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint
sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a
variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song.
v. i.
The upper voice in part music.
v. i.
The canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble.
v. i.
A discourse formed on its theme, like variations on a
musical air; a comment or comments.
v. i.
To sing a variation or accomplishment.
v. i.
To comment freely; to discourse with fullness and
particularity; to discourse at large.
Descant
Twenty doctors expound one text twenty ways, as children make descant upon plain song.
She [the nightingale] all night long her amorous descant sung.
Upon that simplest of themes how magnificent a descant!
Descant
A virtuous man should be pleased to find people descanting on his actions.
Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song.
To sing a variation or accomplishment.
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