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A decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody
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discant
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Wikipedia
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Discant or descant (, meaning "singing apart") originated as a style of liturgical setting in the Middle Ages , associated with the development of the Notre Dame school of polyphony . In origin, it is a style of organum that either includes a plainchant ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discant \Dis"cant\, n. See Descant , n.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody [syn: descant ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of descant English)
Usage examples of discant.
Sit memor nostri, fideique merces, Stet fides constans, meritoque blandum Thraliae discant resonare nomen Littora Skiae.