If faith is the melody, doubt is the descant.
A triplet descant in the treble voice is added to the main theme, which is present in the right-hand alto voice.
The 6/8 theme cycles throughout the movement, constantly transforming itself, while the first violin plays a concertante descant, floating over the theme, sometimes capturing it, then leaving it again.
For recorder ensemble playing, the soprano/descant, alto/treble, tenor and bass are most common many players can play all four sizes.
Of course, we must be quite clear in our minds which of two things we mean when we descant on the need for economy.
I am loath to follow him the whole way because he himself descanted upon the evil which would ensue when a great.
During the last quarter of the twentieth century, new editions of hymnals increased the number of included descants.
A discant (occasionally, particularly later, written "descant") is a form of medieval music in which one singer sang a fixed melody, and others accompanied with improvisations.
