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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 parts
Familiarity information: PARTSONG used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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