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Music that features a fixed vocal melody set to improvisations, often in counterpoint
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
Descant
Topics referred to by the same term
A Descant for Gossips may refer to: A Descant for Gossips (miniseries) A Descant for Gossips (novel) This disambiguation page lists articles associated
A_Descant_for_Gossips
1991 studio album by Carcass
Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious is the third studio album by English extreme metal band Carcass. It was released in Europe by Earache Records
Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious
Necroticism_–_Descanting_the_Insalubrious
Pricksongs & Descants is a collection of short fiction by Robert Coover first published in 1969 by E. P. Dutton. The volume includes "The Babysitter",
Pricksongs_&_Descants
Canadian literary magazine
Descant (1970 – 2015) was a quarterly literary magazine that published new and established contemporary writers and visual artists from Canada and around
Descant_(magazine)
Small woodwind instrument commonly used in schools
The soprano recorder in C, also known as the descant, is the third-smallest instrument of the modern recorder family and is usually played as the highest
Soprano_recorder
Brass instrument
often used by players in professional orchestras and bands, although the descant and triple horn have become increasingly popular. A musician who plays
French_horn
Woodwind instrument
ranges. The sizes most commonly in use today are the soprano (also known as descant, lowest note C5), alto (also known as treble, lowest note F4), tenor (lowest
Recorder_(musical_instrument)
Short story by Robert Coover
Robert Coover first published in Coover's 1969 collection Pricksongs & Descants by E. P. Dutton. The story is Coover's most anthologized work of fiction
The_Babysitter_(short_story)
Russian stringed musical instrument
balalaika is the most common; the piccolo is rare. There have also been descant and tenor balalaikas, but these are considered obsolete. All have three-sided
Balalaika
been written specifically for use in conjunction with the descant, as the melody of the descant may not sound right with other harmonies. Usually the organ
Last_verse_harmonisation
1977 live album by Gentle Giant
Shulman – vocals, alto saxophone, descant recorder, bass and percussion Ray Shulman – bass, violin, acoustic guitar, descant recorder, trumpet, vocals and
Playing_the_Fool
1995 film by Guy Ferland
story of the same name by Robert Coover in his collection Pricksongs & Descants (1969). The film was released direct-to-video in October 1995. Jennifer
The_Babysitter_(1995_film)
1983 Australian TV mini series
A Descant for Gossips is a 1983 Australian mini series about a school girl who becomes involved with two teachers. The adaptation is based on the novel
A Descant for Gossips (miniseries)
A_Descant_for_Gossips_(miniseries)
American musician (born 1948)
two-disc Live album captures this, with a highlight being Arnold McCuller's descants in the codas of "Shower the People" and "I Will Follow". He provided a
James_Taylor
Descant instrument of the cornetto family
(Italian, plural cornettini; German: Diskant Zink, Quart-Zink) is the small descant instrument of the cornett family of lip-reed wind instruments, a fourth
Cornettino
Early wind instrument with a cup mouthpiece
was supplanted by the serpent in the 17th century. The cornettino is the descant, or sometimes "soprano" member of the cornett family. In Syntagma Musicum
Cornett
British actress
Archived from the original on 24 December 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2017. Descant Deb (12 February 2018). "#TBB10 with British queen of sci fi & fantasy
Christine_Adams_(actress)
Book by Thea Astley
Angus and Robertson Publication date 1958 Publication place Australia Media type Print Pages 144pp Preceded by - Followed by A Descant for Gossips
Girl_with_a_Monkey
British actress (born 1976)
Photo (October 26, 2009)". BroadwayWorld. Retrieved 30 May 2026. Deb, Descant (21 September 2016). "Sharon Duncan-Brewster Mesmerises Daily Telegraph
Sharon_Duncan-Brewster
Filipino lager beer
Piyesa, Sandata ni Lolo 2006 Hardboiledeggz (now Ibarra) Black Heaven, Descant Gott, IMO, Kamia, Mad Clown, Pepe Pilar, Punchmint, Smoke Free, Treadstone
Red_Horse_Beer
Voice which takes the treble part in choral music
voice is a voice which takes the treble part. In the absence of a separate descant part, this is normally the highest-pitched part, and otherwise the second
Treble_voice
1967 single by Dave Davies
"La la la" hook; Ray's first wife, Rasa, sings this phrase as well as descant in the second verse, while Ray himself sings harmony in the refrain. Nicky
Death_of_a_Clown
Austrian composer, musicologist and pianist (1890–1987)
descant and treble recorder (1957) Op. 68c Divertimento for 2 treble recorders and guitar (1957) Op. 78 Quartettino for recorder quartet (2 descant,
Hans_Gál
Bellows-driven free-reed aerophone musical instrument
melody–accompaniment duality. The harmoneon is also related and, while having the descant vs. melody dualism, tries to make it less pronounced. The harmonium and
Accordion
Act of producing musical sounds with the voice
cappella music, where the lead is the highest of the five voices and sings a descant and not the melody. Some artists may sing both the lead and backing vocals
Singing
Type of Romanian folk flute
whistle Txistu Whistle Xirula Zuffolo Recorders Garklein Sopranino Soprano (descant) Alto (treble) Voice flute Tenor Bass Great bass Contrabass Sub-great bass
Fifă
American public transportation and defense corporation
new fare payment system". ITS International. Retrieved October 27, 2017. Descant, Skip (November 5, 2021). "Boise Transit Adopts Digital Fare Payment Technology"
Cubic_Corporation
English television personality and actress (born 1960)
Herself". Bravo TV Official Site. 22 January 2019. Retrieved 3 December 2022. Descant, Skip (30 July 2014). "Lisa Vanderpump joins Palm Springs Walk of Stars"
Lisa_Vanderpump
Book by Thea Astley
A Descant for Gossips (1960) is a novel by Australian author Thea Astley. In a dusty Queensland country town young Vinny Lalor is bullied by her fellow
A_Descant_for_Gossips_(novel)
1992 EP by Carcass
Grind and the limited edition 2008 dualdisc reissue of Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious. It also appears on Wake up and Smell the... Carcass
Tools_of_the_Trade
Person who writes music
Introduction to Practical Music, where he says "Some wil [sic] be good descanters [...] and yet wil be but bad composers". "Composer" is a loose term that
Composer
American novelist (1932–2024)
attach those results to. Coover's 1969 short story collection Pricksongs & Descants contains the celebrated metafictional story "The Babysitter," which was
Robert_Coover
Musical formula
labeled romanesca, perhaps from northern-central Italy, is a descending descant formula within a chordal progression that has a bass which moves by 4ths
Romanesca
despite sharing the same professional role and physical stature. Mervall and Descant Brill, commonly known as "the Brill brothers," are twin pixies featured
List of Artemis Fowl characters
List_of_Artemis_Fowl_characters
1947 British royal wedding
A descant to "Crimond" had been taught to Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret by a lady-in-waiting, Lady Margaret Egerton; the music for the descant could
Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten
Wedding_of_Princess_Elizabeth_and_Philip_Mountbatten
Collection of short stories
focus on storytelling itself: The Way to Rainy Mountain, Pricksongs & Descants, How to Make an American Quilt Multiple of these organizing principles
Short-story_cycle
English composer and musician
works, and other songs, including part-songs and unison songs. Several descants by Shaw, Alan Gray and Ralph Vaughan Williams appear in Songs of Praise
Geoffrey_Turton_Shaw
Subgenre of heavy metal music
into death metal and an increasingly melodic style on the Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious (1991) and Heartwork (1993). Death's 1995 album Symbolic
Melodic_death_metal
Son of Hindu god Hanuman
son named Mod-dhwaja and he had a son named Jethi-dhwaja. Jethwas claim descant from Jethi-dhwaja and worship Hanuman as their Iṣṭa-devatā. The Jethwa
Makaradhwaja
Wind instrument in the recorder family
a member of the recorder family. It has the same form as a soprano (or descant) recorder and an alto (or treble) recorder, but it produces a lower sound
Tenor_recorder
1989 studio album by Carcass
inducted into the Decibel Hall of Fame; the first two being Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious and Heartwork respectively. This accolade would reward
Symphonies_of_Sickness
Group of voices with similar vocal ranges
solo at the beginning of Stanford's Magnificat in G, David Willcocks' descant to Mendelssohn's tune for the carol Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, and the
Voice_type
Indian dynasty
Navy flag of Princely State of Porbandar adopted by Jethwa rulers of the Kingdom, showing image of Hanuman, from whom the Jethwas claim their descant.
Jethwa_dynasty
1991 song by Paul McCartney
Lennon is on lead vocal while McCartney supplies a repeated sustained upper descant. McCartney recorded another early version on a crude home tape in the mid-1970s
I_Lost_My_Little_Girl
Music and melodies of the Jewish people
handed down directly, typically from a chazzan to his apprentice meshorrer (descant). Since the late eighteenth century, many of these chants have been written
Jewish_music
Short story by Robert Coover
Evergreen Review (March–April 1962) and first collected in Pricksongs & Descants (1969) by E. P. Dutton. The story is a retelling of the biblical Noah in
The_Brother_(short_story)
Spanish American textile artist
the cover of Robert Coover's first short story collection, Pricksongs & Descants. Her work "Penelope" won Diana Grossman Award for Best of Show at the Eleventh
Pilar_Sans_Coover
1970 studio album by Gentle Giant
Phil Shulman – trumpet (1–3 & 7), alto (3) and tenor (5 & 6) saxophones, descant (6), treble (6) and tenor (6) recorder, backing and lead (2–5) vocals Ray
Gentle_Giant_(album)
American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1980)
toured Europe in January and February 2003. In 2002, Carlton provided the descant vocals for the Counting Crows cover version of the 1970 song "Big Yellow
Vanessa_Carlton
1980 book
James Robison "Home " The New Yorker Leon Rooke "Mama Tuddi Done Over" Descant John Sayles "At The Anarchists' Convention" The Atlantic Monthly Isaac
The Best American Short Stories 1980
The_Best_American_Short_Stories_1980
1971 studio album by Gentle Giant
(track 2) Paul Cosh – trumpet (track 3), organ (track 3) Tony Visconti – descant recorders (track 5), treble recorder (tracks 3, 5), tenor recorder (track
Acquiring_the_Taste
1847 hymn by Henry Francis Lyte
its similarity to Monk's "Eventide". Ralph Vaughan Williams composed a descant for the 1925 hymnal, Songs of Praise; also an orchestral prelude ("Two
Abide_with_Me
American poet and memoirist
2010). Lemon is an editor-at-large for Saturnalia Books; poetry editor of descant, TCU's literary journal, sits on the editorial board of TCU Press and The
Alex_Lemon
American hotelier (1966–2013)
"Ace Hotel founder Alex Calderwood dies at 47". The Seattle Times. November 16, 2013. Descant, Skip. "Ace founder Alex Calderwood dies". The Desert Sun.
Alex_Calderwood
Canadian film director and writer
entitled "Remember me Nought" It was featured in the fall 2013 issue of Descant magazine. Her 2016 debut novel, titled Faerie (Arsenal Pulp Press), received
Eisha_Marjara
English Christmas carol
harmonisation of the Mendelssohn tune for the first two verses, but adds a soprano descant and a last verse harmonisation for the organ in verse three, by Sir David
Hark!_The_Herald_Angels_Sing
Wind instrument in the recorder family
bass recorder take the lower parts and a tenor may be used as an optional descant. In the recording of Led Zeppelin's song "Stairway to Heaven" that appears
Bass_recorder
Nigerian poet
North American Review, Bombay Lit Magazine, 128 LIT, Shade Literary Arts, Descant, North Dakota Quarterly, Quarterly West, Gutter Magazine, Rough Cut Press
Nnadi_Samuel
Canadian actor
Public Access, the Canadian Theatre Review, Daily News and Analysis India, Descant, C Magazine, uTOpia and The New Quarterly. O'Donnell's works and Mammalian
Darren_O'Donnell
Wind instrument in the recorder family
interval above it, and often were notated as transposing instruments. The descant (or soprano) on C was called a "fifth flute", the instrument a whole tone
Sopranino_recorder
15th century songbook
music, written about 1480. It is the earliest surviving set of partbooks (descant, tenor, and contratenor) and an important source of 15th century musical
Glogauer_Liederbuch
Literary technique in narrative motifs and other textual passages
ISBN 978-0253345998, OCLC 20827915 Ramirez, Matthew Eric (January 2011). "Descanting on Deformity: The Irregularities in Shakespeare's Large Chiasms". Text
Chiastic_structure
British choral conductor (1919–2015)
1957 to 1974, making frequent broadcasts and recordings. Several of the descants and carol arrangements he wrote for the annual service of Nine Lessons
David_Willcocks
Renaissance predecessor of the bassoon
family ranging from descant (soprano), tenor-alto, bass to great bass. Relative to their pitch, racketts are quite small (the descant rackett is only 4½
Rackett
Australian actress
episodes 1983 Carson's Law Guest role: Susan TV series, 1 episode 1983 A Descant for Gossips Lillian ABC TV film 1985 One Summer Again Regular role: Eileen
Rona_McLeod
20th-century literary form and movement
possibilities. For example, in Robert Coover's "The Babysitter" from Pricksongs & Descants, the author presents multiple possible events occurring simultaneously—in
Postmodern_literature
Multifaceted crossword puzzle
that compilers also use "worker" to stand for 'bee' or 'hand'), giving DESCANT, which means "discourse". Compilers use many of these crossword abbreviations
Cryptic_crossword
Building preserved in Palm Springs, United States
'Aluminaire House' to their landmarked brick district". New York Daily News. Descant, Skip (February 17, 2015). "Aluminaire House coming to Palm Springs". The
Aluminaire_House
16th-century sacred Christmas carol
the Choir of Clare College Cambridge, accompanied by a cello ensemble, descant recorder and medieval tabor under the direction of Geoffrey Simon, was
Gaudete
Building in Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, Russia
1870s Alexander, Nicolas and Anton Chekhov sang there in choral parts of descant and alto. In 1928 the memorial museum was closed and some of the exhibits
Alexander_I_Palace
Council of the US Department of Homeland Security
President and Chief Information Security Officer at United Airlines. Josh Descant, CEO of REV. Christine Fox, Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics
National Infrastructure Advisory Council
National_Infrastructure_Advisory_Council
Musical instruments that developed c. 1600 – 1750
39. Bach used a flauto piccolo (what flauto?), a high recorder in F ("descant recorder" or "sopranino recorder"), to express for example the sparkling
Baroque_instruments
British organist and composer (1933–2021)
(arr. Richard Hey Lloyd, SATB, Encore Publications) Hit the Roof. 100 descants by Malcolm Archer, Christopher Gower, Richard Lloyd, Thomas McLelland Young
Richard_Hey_Lloyd
Macedonian woodwind instrument
whistle Txistu Whistle Xirula Zuffolo Recorders Garklein Sopranino Soprano (descant) Alto (treble) Voice flute Tenor Bass Great bass Contrabass Sub-great bass
Šupelka
1824 string quartet by Franz Schubert
profoundly different emotion. In the first variation, a lilting violin descant floats above the theme, played in pulsing triplets in the second violin
String Quartet No. 14 (Schubert)
String_Quartet_No._14_(Schubert)
Theme music for news programs
version sung by Ham's Hillside Singers, a version that featured a jazz piano descant, and a version that was sung solo as if it were a ballad with a Liberace-style
Move_Closer_to_Your_World
1878 comic opera by Gilbert & Sullivan
habitable globe and been enjoyed everywhere, there is not much occasion to descant". It called the revival a "most brilliant" success and predicted another
H.M.S._Pinafore
1984 studio album by Robert Earl Keen
Lovett) – 3:38 "Between Hello & Goodbye" – 2:33 "Swervin' In My Lane" (descant written by Nanci Griffith) – 4:03 "Christabel" – 4:03 "Willie" – 2:34 "Young
No_Kinda_Dancer
a Beer are selections from previously published volumes: Pricksongs & Descants (1969), In Bed One Night & Other Brief Encounters (1983), and A Night at
Going for a Beer: Selected Short Fictions
Going_for_a_Beer:_Selected_Short_Fictions
2000 single by Sting
melody. Mami returned with some lyrics in Arabic script for the song's raï descant, which he developed without knowing what Sting had written for the lyrics
Desert_Rose_(Sting_song)
1957 studio album by Sarah Vaughan
and Vaughan creates a brand new melody the second time around, a kind of descant improvising on the original tune. Eight of the tracks, recorded on April
Swingin'_Easy
1971 album by Jethro Tull
vocals, acoustic guitar, flute, production Martin Barre – electric guitar, descant recorder Jeffrey Hammond (as "Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond") – bass guitar,
Aqualung_(album)
American writer, playwright and actor
Literary Magazine ("Role of A Lifetime"). His story "Rescuing Ravel" (Descant, 2005) won the Frank O'Connor Award for Best Short Fiction. "The Man In
Mark_SaFranko
French composer (1818–1893)
maturity". Gounod's Ave Maria gained considerable popularity. It consists of a descant superimposed over a version of the first prelude of Bach's The Well-Tempered
Charles_Gounod
Scottish composer (1836–1887)
Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten in 1947, for which occasion a special descant was composed. It was again sung at the State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth
Jessie_Seymour_Irvine
Musical composed by Jerome Kern; book and lyrics by Otto Harbach
Angie "Scene" - Shirley and Victor "Finale: Try to Forget" (reprise with descant) - Shirley, Victor, and Chorus Entr'acte "Opening: Reprises of 'Prologue'
The Cat and the Fiddle (musical)
The_Cat_and_the_Fiddle_(musical)
American classical composer (1892–1980)
fell upon a night (traditional Christmas carol), mixed voices, soprano descant, and piano, 1942, Galaxy Music Awake, Thou Wintry Earth (17th-century Dutch
Katherine_Kennicott_Davis
(uncollected) Amazing none The One from Camelot Moderan Winter 1962 Moderan Descant none The Pink Umbrella 1951 (uncollected) The Nekromantikon #5 none The
List of short stories by David R. Bunch
List_of_short_stories_by_David_R._Bunch
2013 studio album by Carcass
Retrieved 28 July 2013. Bennett, J. (October 2008). "The Insalubrious, Descanted". Decibel (48). Red Flag Media Inc.: 71–78. ISSN 1557-2137. mr, ed. (3
Surgical_Steel_(album)
1958 song by the Quarrymen
writes, "we hear Lennon singing lead with McCartney providing only a simple descant ..." Lewisohn writes, "John again sings lead on 'In Spite of All the Danger'
In_Spite_of_All_the_Danger
Canadian musician
Davachi published a collection of essays, titled Papers. Her album Cantus, Descant, released in September 2020 via Late Music, was recorded on six pipe organs
Sarah_Davachi
Ecuadorian American chef and restaurateur
"Wandering Chef: Jose Garces in Scottsdale". AFAR. Retrieved 20 March 2023. Descant, Skip (15 January 2016). "Saguaro ending relationship with chef Jose Garces"
Jose_Garces
Line of transit buses built by New Flyer
2021. "Xcelsior AV™". New Flyer Industries. Retrieved February 6, 2021. Descant, Skip (January 29, 2021). "New Flyer Introduces First Autonomous Bus in
New_Flyer_Xcelsior
Selected list of books
String Ben Marcus 73 1966 Tlooth Harry Mathews 74 1969 Pricksongs and Descants Robert Coover 75 1962 The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick 76 1991
20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction
20th_Century's_Greatest_Hits:_100_English-Language_Books_of_Fiction
charge of the Song School for the instruction of the youth in plainsong and descant, which stood on the west side of the church. When their voices broke, choristers
Collegiate Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Anne, Glasgow
Collegiate_Church_of_the_Blessed_Virgin_Mary_and_St_Anne,_Glasgow
1994 instrumental by Pink Floyd
releases. The song roots itself to Gilmour's familiar lonesome melodic guitar descants threading themselves through the trademark mood setting and foundation
Marooned_(instrumental)
Christmas carol of unknown authorship
of the basic harmonisation from The English Hymnal but adds a soprano descant in verse six (verse three in the original) with its reharmonised organ
O_Come,_All_Ye_Faithful
Conifer) Carols from Trinity (1997; Conifer) Choral Moods (1997; Conifer) Descants from Trinity (1997; Conifer) Sweelinck: Cantiones Sacrae, Vol.2 (1999;
Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge
Choir_of_Trinity_College,_Cambridge
English recorder player and former lawyer
Sculthorpe. Turner is also a composer of works such as the Four Diversions for descant recorder and piano, which were first performed by David Munrow and Christopher
John_Turner_(recorder_player)
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