As befits a couple for whom music has been everything, their conversation is like a song, a series of overlapping harmonies, descants and counterpoints, with never a discordant note.
www.telegraph.co.uk The glockenspiel, as softly as possible in a distant descant, plays an extremely slow version of the very opening of the piece.
blogs.telegraph.co.uk 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.
en.wikipedia.org For countless choristers, his descants, learned as children, are etched into their musical memory.
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