part-songs

But in former times we understood the subtle relationship between meaning and verbal music or music itself, as in madrigals and part-songs.

The Death of King Arthur by Peter Ackroyd – review Adam Thorpe 2010

Catholic University choral concert, the chamber choir performs selections of 16th-century religious music, romantic French songs and early 20th-century English part-songs and Christmas pieces from around the world. 7:30 p.m., Catholic University, St. Vincent de Paul Chapel, 620 Michigan Ave. NE.

D.C community calendar, Dec. 9 to 16, 2010 Post 2010

Indeed, the mere fact that they were singing spirituals instead of, say, part-songs by Brahms was enough to make some of their fellow students look askance at them.

Lovely Sounds of Sorrow Terry Teachout 2010

Some sit round the table playing at eucre, the strange hunters and prospectors lie on the floor smoking, and rifles are cleaned, bullets cast, fishing flies made, fishing tackle repaired, boots are waterproofed, part-songs are sung, and about half-past eight I cross the crisp grass to my cabin, always expecting to find something in it.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

All those secular part songs, from madrigals to the Haydn part-songs to the Liebeslieder Waltzes, were written to be performed at home, not in a concert setting.

Archive 2007-03-01 Lisa Hirsch 2007

He had had her as his companion on the climb through a pine forest to a celebrated nunnery; and later on, with a peculiar pleasure, had found himself picking out her voice in the part-songs to which the moonshine stirred the ladies.

Two Tales of Old Strasbourg 2003

In the grove of Egeria the plates are spread in circles, while all the company sing part-songs and dance.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Various

There are a number of part-songs for different combinations of voices, and several sacred selections for various occasions.

Woman's Work in Music Arthur Elson

Among other compositions, she wrote several choruses for Goethe's "Faust," and a number of part-songs.

Woman's Work in Music Arthur Elson

_Rebekah_, _Ps.xcvii. _, many services and anthems, and two hundred and forty-six hymn-tunes (published in 1897 in one volume), as well as some part-songs (among them the popular "Sweet and Low"), and some pieces for the organ.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various