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Discant, or descant (descant), (Latin: discantus, meaning "singing apart") originated as a style of liturgical setting in the Middle Ages, associated.

Stylistically, the conductus is a type of discant (i.

A descant, discant (discant), or discantus is any of several different things in music, depending on the period in question; etymologically, the word means.

The treatise is in five sections: concerning fundamentals and mode, discant, mensuration, musica speculativa and tuning.

“little conclusion"; plural clausulae) was a newly composed section of discant ("note against note") inserted into a pre-existing setting of organum.

From the age of 13 he was a discant singer at the Court in Stuttgart under Ludwig Daser.

Anonymous IV mentions Léonin and Pérotin as the best composers of organum and discant respectively.

chant uses ligatures, the tenor becomes modal and it will have become discant, which is the second form.

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Organum Book), as optimus discantor referring to his discant composition.

, In the original discant organum duplum, the second voice follows the cantus.

an anonymous five-part compilation of works on fundamentals and mode, discant, mensuration (this part a version of the Libellus cantus mensurabilis secundum.

"A copula is a rapid, connected discant.

upper-register voices were added to discant sections, usually strophic interludes, in a longer sequence of organum.

Usually the discant representing a strophic sequence.

genres in the Magnus Liber is the clausula, which are "sections where, in discant style, the tenor uses rhythmic patterns as well as the upper part".

and discant clausulae.

Later in the century, the motets by Petrus de Cruce and the many anonymous composers, which were descended from discant clausulae.

Synonyms:

musical accompaniment; support; backup; descant; accompaniment;

Antonyms:

negate; boycott; forbid; disallow; disapproval;