Usage examples (21)

• Adjective : a descant recorder. ,a descant viol
• After the advent of Florid Organum, the older style of note against note was referred to as "discant" organum.
• For us, it is the most disconcerting and the most ambiguous piece in the entire Mass with its use of the old discant technique.
• And yet he was warned by manie strange woonders (as the common people did discant) to refraine from these euill doings: for the Thames did rise with such high springs...