If you order a mason to build an oven, he immediately inquires about the progress of the peace, and descants on the preliminaries.
Decentum just as likely means 'descant', while fausetum translates as 'falsetto', two techniques that were acceptable in secular situations but suspect within the cloister or the church.
I am loath to follow him the whole way because he himself descanted upon the evil which would ensue when a great.
Of course, we must be quite clear in our minds which of two things we mean when we descant on the need for economy.
Roads are one of the oldest forms of civilisation, and poets and philosophers of all ages have descanted on the glories of the road.
The garklein sounds two octaves above the written pitch; the sopranino and descant (soprano) sound one octave above written pitch.
During the last quarter of the twentieth century, new editions of hymnals increased the number of included descants.
If faith is the melody, doubt is the descant.
