Word: descant
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...floors of mydorm to house WAVES. Marching into Briggs, in theniftiest uniforms, these hearty young women soondisgusted us by leaping from their beds at an hourwhen most of us had barely crawled into ours, toperform loud, thumpy calisthenics in hallways,then marching around our Quad shouting theiranthem (a rousing descant on "Anchors Aweigh...
With a Choir known for its purity of approach to performance, the soprano descant to the processional hymn, Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones, came as a surprise to more than a few listeners. There was a burst of sound as the last verse of the hymn exploded with brass and timpani joining the congregation and organ and the sopranos soaring off in their solo. This elaborate orchestration with descant is more familiar to St. Paul's Church than Memorial Church; it should be done more often here...
...singers of lovelorn pop lyrics. Even his most self-revealing effort. Knocking 'Round the Zoo, which tells what it was like in a mental hospital, where James spent nine months, comes out heavily armed with witty, riffy musical irony?at least until the end, when Taylor tacks a chilling descant of bedlamite sounds onto the following stanza...
...WHAT A LOVELY WAR (London). Into the quicksands of death march the mind-forsaken legions of Joan Littlewood's bitter, brittle, bizarre, tragicomic descant on the asininity and hapless gallantry of World War I. The show's sentimental ballads and parade-ground tempos are coated with steely irony; the weapons are not Krupp's but Brecht...
...African balladeer named Josef Marais has been quietly building a reputation as a specialist in folk and children's songs. He and his Dutch wife Miranda accompany themselves-playing a guitar, tom-toms and an occasional native instrument, he chanting in English and Afrikaans, she piping a shy descant. But in the past year Minstrel Marais has turned popular songsmith. His songs of the veld, such as Sugarbush, Ay-round the Corner and the fast-rising Ma Says, Pa Says, have been recorded by such big-league songbirds as Jo Stafford and Doris...