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PARTSONG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does partsong mean? 

PARTSONG (noun)
  The noun PARTSONG has 1 sense:

1. a song with two or more voice partsplay

  Familiarity information: PARTSONG used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PARTSONG (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A song with two or more voice parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("partsong" is a kind of...):

song; vocal (a short musical composition with words)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "partsong"):

madrigal (an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form)

round; troll (a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time)


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