Assertion: descant | /r/HasProperty | discant
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text: A descant, discant (discant), or discantus is any of several different things in music, depending on the period in question; etymologically, the word means a voice (cantus) above or removed from others.
text: Discant, or descant (descant), (Latin: discantus, meaning "singing apart") originated as a style of liturgical setting in the Middle Ages, associated with the development of the Notre Dame school of polyphony.