Decani vs Decane - What's the difference?
decani | decane |
Of the side of the choir on which the dean's stall is placed; decanal.
* 1988 , Gordon Paine, Howard Swan, Five Centuries of Choral Music: Essays in Honor of Howard Swan (page 105)
(chemistry) any of the seventy-five isomers of the aliphatic hydrocarbon having the chemical formula C10H22
As an adjective decani
is of the side of the choir on which the dean's stall is placed; decanal.As a noun decane is
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English
Adjective
(-)- All the extant voices participate fully in the decani-cantoris split at that point, so one is tempted to assume that the tenors split into decani and cantoris parts as well.