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

Let us take six gentlemen met together to learn the old thirteenth-century part-song, the round entitled ‘Sumer is icumen in.’

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He went over to the piano and they sang a part song, "Oh, who will o'er the downs so free?"

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Suddenly, from a grove behind us, came the sound of children's voices singing an old German part-song.

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A part-song is a composition for two or more voices, (usually four) to be sung a capella.

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The part song method was at the basis of all these old lute songs.

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