part song
noun
a song with parts for several voices, especially one meant to be sung without accompaniment.
part singing
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a word derived from
part song.
Example Sentences
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Soon after, Carlile got her own audition and landed a part singing Roseanne Cash’s “Tennessee Flat Top Box.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2021
A new sound, part cry-ing, part singing, comes out of my body, giving voice to my despair.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
At first the whole congregation bore a part, singing all together; afterwards the manner was altered, and they sung alternately, some repeating one verse, and some another.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 403, December 5, 1829 by Various
It is quite common to hear a primitive kind of part singing, some piping in a curious falsetto, others droning a deep bass.
From Navaho Houses, pages 469-518 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898 by Cosmos Mindeleff
He had been too shy to join the singing school, and had never heard any part singing till he began to attend the Bible class.
From The Man from Glengarry; a tale of the Ottawa by Ralph Connor
