Lexicographical Neighbors of Discanting
Literary usage of Discanting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete History of Music, for Schools, Clubs, and Private Readings by Winton James Baltzell (1905)
"Another early attempt at harmonic effect was the singing of an extemporaneous
part or parts with the melody, called discanting. ..."
2. The Oxford History of Music by William Henry Hadow (1905)
"His description is as follows:—'There is another way of discanting which indeed
... For in this method many will appear to be discanting upon the plainsong, ..."
3. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1877)
"Sometimes this discanting was extemporized at the moment of performance, and
would be what the Italians called "contrap- punto alia mente. ..."
4. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1916)
"We have all laughed ourselves to weariness over the account of the barefoot boy
reading Plato between the plow handles, the kitchen scullion discanting upon ..."
5. The Histories of Polybius by Polybius, Friedrich Otto Hultsch, Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh (1889)
"... describing the state of popular feeling which was now adverse to themselves,
and discanting on the untrust- worthiness of democratic assemblies. ..."
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