Then the spirit moving her, she began to discant on things past and people vanished. |
After finishing the tuning of the bass, the discant is tuned by starting with b-1 upwards. |
And indeed, it is the sweetest imaginable lullaby, calm and hypnotic by way of its ostinato discant. |
To hear him discant you would have thought his wings were sprouting. |
The instrument was distinguished by its light, transparent tone in the discant, its length of tone and its dark, marvellous bass. |