descant

musical term with several meanings
Event voice_type Q577996
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descant

Summary

descant is a voice type[1]. descant draws 50 Wikipedia views per month (voice_type category, ranking #11 of 15).[2]

Key Facts

  • descant's instance of is recorded as voice type[3].
  • descant's instance of is recorded as musical form[4].
  • descant's instance of is recorded as music genre[5].
  • descant's subclass of is recorded as medieval music[6].
  • descant's said to be the same as is recorded as soprano[7].
  • descant's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07jmp7[8].
  • descant's described by source is recorded as Riemann's Music Dictionary[9].
  • descant's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • descant's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • descant's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/descant[12].
  • descant's Orthodox Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 178540[13].
  • descant's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2780019902[14].
  • descant's Krugosvet article is recorded as kultura_i_obrazovanie/muzyka/DISKANT.html[15].
  • descant's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/4995[16].
  • descant's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3892945[17].
  • descant's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as diskant-a95781[18].

Why It Matters

descant draws 50 Wikipedia views per month (voice_type category, ranking #11 of 15).[2] descant has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] descant is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). descant. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/descant
MLA “descant.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/descant.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_descant_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{descant}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/descant}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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