four-part harmony

[fawr-pahrt, fohr-]

noun

1. harmony in which each chord has four tones, creating, in sum, four melodic lines.

Example Sentences

Then the teammates belted out the chorus in four-part harmony.

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As the church’s music director, Sandy would arrange songs so that the Macks could sing four-part harmony.

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Charles layers four-part harmony and swathes of effects onto an incantation of “The beat!” and her band kicks into a scorching, slow-motion groove.

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Smaller groups, like the Quintette Club, a four-part harmony group, sprung up.

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Of course, the crowd splits for duets from “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Rent,” and “Les Miserables’” “One Day More” is always a four-part harmony.

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