Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See part, 5, and partwriting.

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Examples

  • Spirits were high as people chose their seats according to voice-part and opened their score books, some tattered by time and some brand new.

    Marissa Bronfman: A Rousing Rendition of Messiah: A Holiday Classic at Historic Massey Hall 2009

  • Surely, the voice-part in these classics is not without its need of elucidation.

    Style in Singing W. E. Haslam

  • As a general thing no two voices in contrapuntal writing move in the same way, each voice-part being contrasted with different note-values.

    Music Talks with Children Thomas Tapper

  • Mr Sharnall's resources in the way of men's voices were so limited that he was by no means unused to finding himself short of a voice-part on the one side or the other.

    The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895

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