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- A descant, discant, or discantus is any of several different things in music, depending on the period in question; etymologically, the word means a voice...
- reserving discantus for "nò(-bis)" instead of having a short section in discantus right away at the beginning. Pérotin "is the best composer of discantus", according...
- were P. leucomystax or P. discantus. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2023). "Malayan Slender Treefrog: Polypedates discantus". IUCN Red List of Threatened...
- Léonin's work was distinguished by two distinctive organum styles, purum and discantus. This early polyphonic organa was still firmly based on Gregorian chant...
- These works are typically still 3 voices, with an active upper voice (discantus) pitched above two lower voices (tenor and altus) usually sharing the...
- mentions the work of the theorist Franco of Cologne; describes organum, discantus, rhythmic modes, and genres of composition; and gives rules for the use...
- anchor shaped key and a perforated fontanelle, two tenors in C4 and a discantus (alto) in G4. According to Virdung, the configurations F–C–C–G or F–C–G–G...
- chanteur, chanteuse, chanticleer, charm, concent, descant, discant, discantus, disenchant, disenchantment, disencharm, disincentive, enchant, enchantment...
- melody in the tenor. Discantus positio vulgaris, one of the earliest conductus sources, mentions "conducts as a species of discantus." The conductus is...
- Pro Music Press. ISBN 9781887117159. Fuller, Sarah (2002). "Organum, Discantus, Contrapunctus in the Middle Ages". In Thomas Christensen (ed.). The Cambridge...