English-Thai Dictionary

descant

N ทำนองเพลง 

 

descant on

PHRV พูด ยืดยาว เกี่ยวกับ  วิพากษ์วิจารณ์ อย่าง ยืดยาว  pud-yued-yao-kiao-kab

 

descant on

PHRV ร้อง เสียง สูง ขึ้น  descant upon rong-siang-sung-kuen

 

descant upon

PHRV พูด ยืดยาว เกี่ยวกับ  วิพากษ์วิจารณ์ อย่าง ยืดยาว  pud-yued-yao-kiao-kab

 

descant upon

PHRV ร้อง เสียง สูง ขึ้น  descant on rong-siang-sung-kuen

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DESCANT

n. 1. A song or tune composed in parts.
2. A song or tune with various modulations.
The wakeful nightingale
All night long her amourous descant sung.
3. A discourse; discussion; disputation; animadversion, comment, or a series of comments.
4. The art of composing music in several parts. Descant is plain, figurative and double.
Plain descant is the ground-work of musical compositions, consisting in the orderly disposition of concords, answering to simple counterpoint.
Figurative or florid descant, is that part of an air in which some discords are concerned.
Double descant, is when the parts are so contrived, that the treble may be made the base, and the base the treble.

 

DESCANT

v.i. 1. To run a division or variety with the voice, on a musical ground in true measure; to sing.
2. To discourse; to comment; to make a variety of remarks; to animadvert freely.
A virtuous man should be pleased to find people descanting on his actions.

 

DESCANTING

ppr. Singing in parts or with various modulations; discoursing freely; commenting.

 

DESCANTING

n.Remark; conjecture.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DESCANT

Des "cant, n. Etym: [OF. descant, deschant, F. déchant, discant, LL. discantus, fr. L. dis + cantus singing, melody, fr. canere to sing. See Chant, and cf. Descant, v. i., Discant. ]

 

1. (Mus. ) (a ) Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song. (b ) The upper voice in part music. (c ) The canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble. Grove. Twenty doctors expound one text twenty ways, as children make descant upon plain song. Tyndale.She [the nightingale ] all night long her amorous descant sung. Milton.

 

Note: The term has also been used synonymously with counterpoint, or polyphony, which developed out of the French déchant, of the 12th century.

 

2. A discourse formed on its theme, like variations on a musical air; a comment or comments. Upon that simplest of themes how magnificent a descant! De Quincey.

 

DESCANT

Des *cant ", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Descanted; p. pr. & vb. n.Descanting. ] Etym: [From descant; n.; or directly fr. OF. descanter, deschanter; L. dis- + cantare to sing. ]

 

1. To sing a variation or accomplishment.

 

2. To comment freely; to discourse with fullness and particularity; to discourse at large. A virtuous man should be pleased to find people descanting on his actions. Addison.

 

DESCANTER

DESCANTER Des *cant "er, n.

 

Defn: One who descants.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

descant

des cant ▶noun |ˈdesˌkant ˈdɛˌskænt |Music an independent treble melody usually sung or played above a basic melody. • archaic or literary a melodious song. • a discourse on a theme or subject: his descant of deprivation. ▶verb |desˈkant dɪˈskant | [ no obj. ] literary talk tediously or at length: I have descanted on this subject before. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French deschant, from medieval Latin discantus ‘part-song, refrain. ’

 

descant recorder

des cant re cord er |ˈdɛˌskænt rəˈkɔrdər | ▶noun British term for soprano recorder.

 

Oxford Dictionary

descant

des |cant ▶noun |ˈdɛskant | 1 Music an independent treble melody sung or played above a basic melody. • archaic or literary a melodious song. 2 literary a discourse on a theme: his descant of deprivation. ▶verb |dɪˈskant, dɛ - | [ no obj. ] literary talk tediously or at length: I have descanted on this subject before. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French deschant, from medieval Latin discantus ‘part-song, refrain ’.

 

descant recorder

des |cant re |cord ¦er ▶noun the most common size of recorder (musical instrument ), with a range of two octaves from the C above middle C upwards.

 

Spanish Dictionary

descantillar

descantillar verbo transitivo 1 Romper o quebrar las aristas o los cantos de un objeto .2 Rebajar o quitar una parte de una cantidad, en especial de dinero .

 

descantonar

descantonar verbo transitivo Romper o quebrar las aristas o los cantos de un objeto .SINÓNIMO descantillar .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

descant

des cant /déskænt /名詞 U C 1 〘楽 〙デスカント 〘元は単旋律聖歌の高音変奏部; 後に聖歌に付く高音の対位旋律 〙; (多声曲の )ソプラノの部 .2 (長々しい )論評, 批評 ; 詳論 .動詞 /dɪskǽnt /自動詞 1 ｟かたく ｠ «…について » 長々と話す «on , upon » .2 〘楽 〙随唱 [随奏 ]する .