descant

Example Sentences

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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

With no lines to address it, this extension of the theme of assumed privilege can only serve as a descant to the others, but sometimes that’s enough.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2018

A cascade of overlapping Rickenbacker, chorus and descant, prayer and polemic.

From Time • Nov. 15, 2011

I had described myself as being stood on a heap of telephone directories to sing the descant to Beethoven's Creation's Hymn.

From The Guardian • Oct. 17, 2010

This is a countermelody, sometimes called a descant part.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones