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discantus

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dis⋅cant

[n. dis-kant; v. dis-kant]
–noun
1. Also, dis⋅can⋅tus [dis-kan-tuhs] . Music. a 13th-century polyphonic style with strict mensural meter in all the voice parts, in contrast to the metrically free organum of the period.
2. descant.
–verb (used without object)
3. descant.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME < ML discanthus; see descant


dis⋅cant⋅er, noun
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