10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISCANTER»
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discanter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
discanter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A General History of the Science and Practice of Music in ...
And so the discanter of the mene shal begyne hys descant wyth the plain-song in
fighte, and a fyfthe aboue in uoise; and so he shal ende it in a fyfthe, hauyng next
afore ,a thyrd, yf the plain-song descende and ende downward, as FA, MI, Mr, ...
2
A General History of Music: From the Earliest Ages to the ...
The imperfite Gordys are the " thyrde, the sixte, the tenth, and the thyrteenth, and
so " with thTe Accordys of D1SCAN T any Discanter may both " rise and faul with
the I layne Song," &c. II. At Oxford, likewise, in the same volume as 1 hier.red of ...
3
Music & Poetry in the Early Tudor Court
As the improvisation was normally based on a plain-song melody, the only ability
required from the discanter, once he had found his first note, was the ability to
read a familiar melody, if that. Solmization (the modern sol-fa system descends ...
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... DECUMBENT DEFLEXURE DENITRATE DEOXIDIZE DEREPRESS
DETORSION DIATOMIST DIGENETIC DISCANTER DITHIONIC DIZYGOTIC
ABSURDITY ADMONITOR ALCHEMISE AMUSEABLE ANALGESIA ANATOMIST
ANEUPLOID ...
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Middle English Dictionary
Ibid. 249/10-12: To pe same playnsong pu. maist discant 3 6tis with a 8, 3 l0this
with a 12, 3 13this with a 15. Now >u knowist hou pa shal discant a 3de with a 5te
. . Now must bu knou hou pa shal discant thi 3de with a 6te. discanter n.
Hans Kurath, Sherman M. Kuhn, 1961
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Journal of the American Musicological Society
Ernst Apfel interprets the directions for the discanter as meaning thirds below the
second singer, sixths below the third singer, tenths below the fourth singer,
yielding a form of faburden (see his Studien zur Satztechiiik der rnittelalterlichen
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American Musicological Society, 1971
... tush (for these were his usuall wordes). hee is a proper man, but hee is no
discanter, hee is no discanter ; there is no stufle in him, I will not give two pinnes
for him except he hath descant. Morley's discourse on the Madrigal is full of
interest, ...
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Middle English Dictionary
Ibid. 263: Now it is conuenient to knou how bat be counter shal be shape to serue
be plain-song bobe ascending & de- scendyng. al500 Treat.Descant in Burney
GHist. Music l. 700: With these Accordys of Discant, any Discanter may both rise ...
Sherman M. Kuhn, Robert E. Lewis, 1983
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A New Pocket Dictionary of the English & Spanish Languages ...
Disminuyeme, Derógatory, a* Derogatorio. Derógatorily, ad, Cou derogación. D
eroga toriness, í. Derogación, deseí- timacion. [los Turcos. Dérvis, s. Dervis,
sacerdote entre Descánt, 5. (Mus.) Discante; discurso. [iar. To Descánt, v.n.
Discanter, ...
Mariano Cubi y Soler, 1823
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An Account in English of the Anointing of the First King of ...
In English a sang the “ discnntus " or treble part. discanter was “ one that can
extcmpore 1 struck out, and their interlinad. 5 Germ. Es iat. 18 AN ACCOUNT IN
ENGLISH OF THE ANOINTING Amen, Amen, prosperity to the King prosperity to
the .
