part song

noun

1. a song with parts for several voices, especially one meant to be sung without accompaniment.

part song

noun

1. a song composed in harmonized parts
2. in more technical usage a piece of homophonic choral music in which the topmost part carries the melody

Other Words From

• part singing noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of part song¹

First recorded in 1590–1600

Example Sentences

For his part, Song acknowledges that his research "won't affect our gas prices or winter storms."

From Salon

Like rumbustious Walt Whitman, “The Heart of American Poetry” is large and contains multitudes, being part “Song of Myself” and part July Fourth celebration.

From Washington Post

There is a ten-minute-long “Amazing Grace,” part song, part sermon, that could come only from someone steeped in the tradition of her father’s Delta whooping.

From The New Yorker

A Part Song struck us all powerfully.

From BBC

And Denise Riley was awarded the prize for best single poem for A Part Song, a meditation on the loss of her son in 2008.

From BBC