part song

Historical Examples of part song

• Her “No” was set to counterpoint in the part-song, and she frightened Love out of her sight in a ballet.

  The Spirit of Place

  Alice Meynell

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

  English Costume

  Dion Clayton Calthrop

• Part-song was simplified, and Johan Walther compiled a hymnal of religious songs in the vernacular for from four to six voices.

  The Story of the Hymns and Tunes

  Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth

• The sanction of the cardinals was given—and part-song harmony became permanently one of the angel voices of the Christian church.

  The Story of the Hymns and Tunes

  Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth

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

  Music Notation and Terminology

  Karl W. Gehrkens