Adjective : a descant recorder. ,a descant viol.    From Dictionary.com. 

After the advent of Florid Organum, the older style of note against note was referred to as "discant" organum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

For us, it is the most disconcerting and the most ambiguous piece in the entire Mass with its use of the old discant technique.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

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 and tides, that manie townes were drowned, and much hurt doone in places about London, and elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) William Rufus] Reference

Like the flute, there was a complete family of oboes in the sixteenth and early in the seventeenth century; the little schalmey, the discant schalmey, from which the present oboe is derived; the alto, tenor, pommer, and bass pommers, and the double quint or contrabass pommer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference

There are two distinct textures for the polyphonic works: a “discant” style, in which the two voice parts generally move together (as in the conductus and the Benedicamus tropes), and an “organal” style in which the upper voice part sings a rhapsodic melody against the long-held notes of a lower tenor voice based on a liturgical chant (as in adiutor an the tropped Kyrie: Cunctipotens).    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

Then the spirit moving her, she began to discant on things past and people vanished.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Girl] Reference

Where many began strangely to discant of those crosse beginnings, and him; which caused me remember an old saying of Euripides.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: With the Names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from Their First Beginning, Ano: 1584. To This Present 1624. With the Procedings of Those Severall Colonies and the Accidents That Befell Them in All Their Journyes and Discoveries. Also the Maps and Descriptions of All Those Countryes, Their Commodities, People, Government, Customes, and Religion Yet Knowne. Divided into Sixe Bookes. By Captaine Iohn Smith, Sometymes Governour in Those Countryes & Admirall of New England] Reference

In the discant section each note of the melismatic section of the cantus was set against one to three notes in the second voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

I might discant for hours with an enthusiasm which, perhaps, only an actor could feel on the marvellous details of Kean's impersonations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Drama] Reference

A graceful compliment was passed upon it by Sir William Lawrence, when, in thanking the author for the gift of the book, he wrote (January 24, 1867), "in your modest book 'indocti discant, ament meminisse periti!'".    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1] Reference

Docentes minus doceant, Discentes vero plus discant: Scholæ minus habeant Strepitus, nauseæ, vani laboris; plus autem otii, deliciarum, solidique profectus: Respublica Christiana minus tenebrarum confusionis dissidiorum; plus lucis, ordinis, pacis & tranquilitatis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orbis Pictus] Reference

The creation of opera as – what was intended to be – the rebirth of ancient drama on the basis of music enhancing the eloquence of speech marked a highly significant caesura between the earlier virtually unified concept of composition and a new, theoretically sanctioned division between a traditional prima and a modern seconda prattica – even though many characteristic features of this seconda prattica had in fact been foreshadowed during the 16th century: increasing emphasis on the meaning of words in vocal composition and the emancipation of instrumental music, the determination of sonority and structure by the bass and the discant parts, and the growing significance of the tonal cadence in its modern sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

£300 per Annum Sallary and all and I fear we are very near Such bad times again I shall not take upon me to discant upon Collo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter from Robert Carter to Lord Fairfax and William Cage, February 13, 1721] Reference

"Everybody can say it; the dastard, not less than the noble brave, can flippantly discant on the tyranny of England toward the American Colonies.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Fourth of July is Theirs, Not Mine] Reference

If an author has many different and opposite subjects of interest in his head, which is not unfrequently the case with persons of the higher order of intellect, and he can discant on all with equal facility, or investigate all with equal eagerness, he will do well to recollect that the minds of his readers are not likely to be equally discursive, and that he is apt to destroy the influence, or mar the effect of each, if he blends them together; separation of works is the one thing needful there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference

Deus extare talia loca, ut discant mortales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Do discant at the best.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6] Reference

12 hogsheads by the Spotswood you must allow me a little to discant upon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter from Robert Carter to William Dawkins, May 12, 1732] Reference

A melody as he can, then ... use it as a tenor is used in writing discant” (Strunk, p. 155).    From Wordnik.com.  [MUSICAL GENIUS] Reference

Thraliae discant resonare nomen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson] Reference