10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DESCANTER»
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1
The Owl and the Nightingale: Musical Life and Ideas in ...
The cleric teaches the young boy some Latin, and instructs him how to read both
script and plainchant notations (lire et bien canter).92 However, the musical
element in his lessons goes further than plainchant :93 Quintier, doubler et
descanter ...
2
A plain and easy introduction to practical music ...: ...
No : but it should seeme by his speech, that except a man befo drownd in
descant, that hee can doe nothing else in TVlusicke, but wrest and wring in hard
points vpon a plaine song, they would not esteeme him a descanter : out though
that be ...
3
General history of the science and practice of music. [With] ...
Last of 'all, they take it for singing a part extempore upon ' a playne song, in which
sense we commonly use it ; so 'that when a man talketh of a descanter, it must be
' understood of one that can extempore sing a part upon 'a playne song. Phi.
4
The New Monthly Magazine
Of the mercantile importance of a cheap pottage in a commercial country, we say
nothing : not because there is nothing to be s.id, but simply because the
Descanter being himself as he tells us, " out of Trade," passes over that Great
Interest in ...
5
The Headington (parish) magazine [afterw.] St. Andrew's ...
arbour is sought, and there Master Gnorimus unfolds the mysteries of descant,
which, though used in divers meanings, is generally an extempore part applied to
a plain song ; so that a descanter is one who can sing extempore a part in ...
Headington St. Andrew's, 1875
6
Catalogue of Early Books on Music (before 1800)
The second treateth of descante and to sing two parts in one vpon a plain- song
or ground, with other things necessary for a descanter. The third and last part
entreateth of composition of three, foure, fiue or more parts with many profitable ...
Library of Congress. Music Division, Julia Gregory, Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, 1913
Of the mercantile importance of a cheap pottage in a commercial country, we say
nothing : not because there is nothing to be siid, but simply because the
Descanter being himself as he tells us, " out of Trade," passes over that Great
Interest in ...
Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, 1841
8
Stinchcombe parish magazine [afterw.] The parish magazine ...
Cam Glouc. Church Proverbs. arbour is sought, and there Master Gnorimus
unfolds the mysteries of descant, which, though used in divers meanings, is
generally an extempore part applied to a plain song ; so that a descanter is one
who can ...
9
Middle English Dictionary
Music 252/6: Per is a rwle bat descanteris may sette & syng 3 jmperfite a-cordis to
-gedir. Ibid. 258/34: With bese acordis of descaunt euery descanter may ryse in
voyse & falle with be plain-song, excepte out of one perfite in-to a-nober bobe of
...
Hans Kurath, Sherman M. Kuhn, 1961
10
Book V. from the Birth of Shakespeare to the Death of ...
The scholar says he has heard a friend of his who is the best descanter in the
world, and begs he may be 'taught descant. The master answers that it will
require time and patience, that the word is hardly defined, and, in short, does
what he can ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DESCANTER»
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Chinese among 4 dead in accident at Jhelum dam site
According to the project administration, the workers were installing a steel reinforcement of 38 mm between the descanter and main dam when ... «The Nation, Dec 14»
