descant
Example Sentences
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A pair of harps, placed antiphonally in boxes at opposite sides of the stage, plus a theorbo, offer an otherworldly descant, as do the sounds of the celesta and chimes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
For much of the show, Fischer, a powerhouse vocalist best known as a backup singer, sticks to wordless descant, humming and oohing on top of and around the other music.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2024
The Hynde storyline, which includes her messing around with songs on an acoustic guitar, runs as a kind of descant against the personal and professional noise of the Pistols.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2022
On the one hand a piece of garage-rock r'n'b, on the other a platter of disorienting descant in which lines from the poem are picked up at random and repeated as a series of conflicting refrains.
From The Guardian • Sep. 16, 2010
As the audience flows out of the auditorium, there is the same jubilant descant, the great sound of crowded people explaining things to each other as fast as their minds will work.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing descant
Music - Middle School
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Music - High School
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Selection Vocabulary 2, Unit 2
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