Our much-loved Christmas carols wouldn't be the same without a grand descant floating above the melody. But what exactly is this alternative tune that we sing, and why do we sing it at Christmas time?

After 44 years, Toronto-based literary journal Descant Magazine has announced its latest issue will be its last. Editor-in-Chief Karen Mulhallen revealed that Descant has been in deficit for three ...

After 44 years in circulation, quarterly Canadian literary journal Descant magazine has announced that its winter 2014 issue, Descant 167: In A Cabinet of Curioisities, will be its last.

More than paint, clay or thread, and way more than any structured material like bronze or stone, the found object is the artistic medium of the ...

Descant is releasing "A Summer Reader". This issue of the magazine centres around the idea of being able to take its audience places — be it tropical destinations, modest towns, marvellous cities or ...

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Descant’s work is one-of-a-kind. Although he assembles various pieces—as small as a salt and pepper shakers, to those as large as a Yugo—he is best known for designing spacey deluxe rocket ships which ...

For violinist <a href=" Wilson, writing descants to all six of the Preludes to Bach's Cello Suites was a labor of love - ...

ARTSEEN Critic Doug MacCash rates New Orleans art exhibits. The ratings are Wonderful, Worthwhile and Whatever. Jimmy Descant's exhibit of allegorical junk sculpture maps titled "The Shape of ...