Some of the most beautiful improvisational part-singing that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference

After the use of the thin voice has become firmly established, part-singing may be resumed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs] Reference

Two or three weeks ago we tried part-singing much to the pleasure of the men, who now all come up to the front.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference

Elizabethan London was a musical city, and part-singing was cultivated beneath the rooftree of every well-to-do burgher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference

I asked them because I thought they might feel a little out in the cold if the men learnt part-singing and they did not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference

This practice continued from the time part-singing begins in the music course, compels the boys to use the thick register.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs] Reference

The spontaneous part-singing of groups of Negroes is a rare phenomenon in folk-music, for most simple people sing only a unisono melody.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference

After that we had some part-singing of good old glees, like "The Chough and Crow," "Here in cool Grot," and the ever-beautiful "Dawn of Day.".    From Wordnik.com.  [She and I, Volume 1] Reference

In play-hours, nothing seemed thought of but part-singing, and suddenly the propriety of giving a grand public concert was started; and after a serious debate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louis' School Days A Story for Boys] Reference

In a few more generations, all churches will have converted to praise bands, and no one will know what part-singing is anymore except those who get together to sing Beethoven 9 every now and then.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Search] Reference

How low in pitch the lower part may with safety be carried depends partly upon the age of the pupils; but until the chest-voice begins to develop at puberty, all part-singing must be sung very lightly as to the lower part or voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs] Reference

One thing at a time is enough to attempt in music, and while a change in the use of the voice is being sought, it may happen that sacrifices must be made in other directions; part-singing, until the voices become equalized, that is, of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs] Reference

On one occasion in a suburban district, outside a branch of the Y.W.C.A. on a Sunday evening, we stopped to listen to some excellent part-singing, and we could not help thinking what an educative influence it would surely prove in the lives of the music-makers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirit and Music] Reference

But, we had a little music and part-singing: a little lively, general chit - chat, in which all could join and each take a share: a few anecdotes well told -- a complete success, to be brief, in making us all feel perfectly natural and at ease, for we were allowed to do and say exactly what we pleased in moderation.    From Wordnik.com.  [She and I, Volume 1] Reference

The leader and the congregation begin with part-singing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man] Reference

Lord Strathmore wished to stop the part-singing after dinner, but I felt sure that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Days Before Yesterday] Reference

They were a cheery company, part-singing in the evenings and working hard all day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913] Reference

I could not realize at the time how much this exquisite part-singing was extemporized.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gypsies] Reference

Some of the noblest music written is for part-singing and for two or more instruments.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music] Reference

Frequently there was part-singing or choruses, and after the music was over the evening ended with a dance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville] Reference

No one of whom inquiry has been made is able to affirm positively the existence of part-singing in the olden times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula] Reference

Most of those with whom the writer has talked are inclined to the view that the ancient cantillation was not in any sense part-singing as now practised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula] Reference

At St. Peter's and the Sistine Chapel religious earnestness and dignity were frittered away in pretty part-singing, in mere frivolity and meretricious show.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Italian and French Composers]

As the negroes have no part-singing, we have thought it best to print only the melody; what appears in some places as harmony is really variations in single notes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Songs of the United States.] Reference

In fact, not quite so much, seeing that Lady Ingleby had herself once tried to master the Tonic sol-fa system in order to instruct her men and maids in part-singing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rosary] Reference

There was no part-singing in Greece, but merely a singing, or rather chanting, of national and patriotic songs in unison, accompanied by the cithara, the national instrument.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference

Hawaiians -- those uninfluenced by foreign music -- have given an illustration of what can properly be termed part-singing; nor can anyone be found who can testify affirmatively to the same effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula] Reference

The noise, as it came to him now and again, divided itself familiarly into a main strain of hard, high, sharp, and tinny female voices, with three or four concurrent and clashing branch strains of part-singing by men who did not know how.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Damnation of Theron Ware] Reference

Finally -- that part-singing from written notes, and also the extempore singing of a second part (descant) to a written plainsong, was a diversion of such young University gentlemen, and was looked on as a proper form of recreation after hard reading.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries] Reference

They are especially famous for their part-singing, "so that in a company of singers, which one very often meets with in Wales, you will hear as many different parts and voices as there are performers," (!) and this gift has by long habit become natural to the nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures] Reference

Greek -- if anybody is going in for the higher education of women -- their pets, their games of lawn-tennis, their girl companions with whom these other girls are for ever making appointments to walk, to practise part-singing, to work or read together, to get up drawing-room.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Houseful of Girls] Reference

So, too, with various kinds of art-work -- drawing, modelling, lettering, making posters for entertainments; or music, both individual and concerted, orchestra practice, part-singing, glee-clubs and so on; or morrice and other folk-dances, now happily being widely revived.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cambridge Essays on Education] Reference