| A soaring girl soprano descant adds another heavenly layer to the already rich texture. |
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| Jacques told me that everyone was in such awe when I sang it, no one would sing the descant while I was at college. |
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| I had been going to mark the 1000th posting here with a descant on futility and failure, as is traditional on New Year's Eve. |
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| When he has begun to descant on a subject which interests his morbid feelings, he knows not when to pass to another. |
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| It is a pleasure to hear my refugee patients descant on that great historical achievement. |
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| The constant sound of Calcutta is the cacophony of horns and the descant of millions of crows. |
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| And so on and oleaginously forth, while the greater tweeting Murdoch sings descant. |
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| It was an enjoyable evening but the danger of where we seem to be going kept reasserting itself like a descant to the pleasant sound of casual conversation. |
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| The main criterion for testing good stringing is the balance between descant and bass. |
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| These wonderful letters are a descant to the two recent major biographies. |
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| Save some energy as you have a 15 minute walk up hill before the final descant. |
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| A Rembrandt portrait of an aged Dutch woman represents a particular person, but the representation is made a vehicle for a descant on old age and human fortitude and dignity. |
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| In polyphonic settings the old technique of 13th century descant with parallel fifths and octaves and counter-movements was consciously reverted to. |
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| Together with its bass and descant variants, it played a full part in that distinctive sixteenth-century musical phenomenon: the instrumental consort. |
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| We play without electronics or digital technology old and new music on traditional instruments: harp, dulcimer, double bass, with bagpipes or hurdy-gurdy and descant recorder. |
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| De Torres and his contemporaries moved this first bar forward to a position immediately behind the sound hole, which shifted the balance between descant and bass in favour of the bass tones. |
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| Rosemary Robinson will play the spinet with Caroline Jones playing the descant, sopranino and treble recorders. |
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| The bass strings must be adjusted to the brightness of the descant strings, in order to reach a desirable degree of blend between top and bottom parts. |
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| The music is basically in descant or treble-dominated style: a melodically and rhythmically elaborated upper part over two slower moving parts, usually for instruments. |
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| Memories of what happened the last few times the BBC's commentators were permitted to descant over fairy-tale weddings of this sort are still relatively fresh, as are the details of each royal divorce. |
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| Dinner parties up and down the land are reportedly interrupted by metallic clattering as people drop their cutlery, wring their hands and descant on how wonderful this version of Stephen Sondheim is. |
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| Mixed and produced by UK studio wizard Steve Forward, this album featured a return to 70s-style rock and brought Axel's descant vocals to the fore. |
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