part singing
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a word derived from
part song.
part songnouna song with parts for several voices, especially one meant to be sung without accompaniment.
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
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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 Mindeleff, Cosmos
In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries England had developed part singing and also laid the foundations of counterpoint.
From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.
After commenting on the improvement which had also been made in music, part singing, drawing, and painting, Miss Thompson passed to the subject of games.
From For the School Colours by Brazil, Angela