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"Part-singing" Quotes from Famous Books

... embarrassing situations, and destroy, instead of creating, sociability; none of those stock—so-called—"drawing-room entertainments;" in fact, which always result in hopeless boredom. 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 ...

— She and I, Volume 1 • John Conroy Hutcheson

... quite customary in school music to assign the boys to the lower part, in part music. This practice continued from the time part-singing begins in the music course, compels the boys to use the thick register. As the larynx gains in firmness from year to year, they experience more and more difficulty with their upper tones— those lying from F to C. Having used only the thick voice in all their school singing, they know of ...

— The Child-Voice in Singing • Francis E. Howard

... of "Auld Lang Syne," with execrable attempts at part-singing, little Dan Lefferts, a dissolute house-painter, contributing a tenor ...

— The Boss of Little Arcady • Harry Leon Wilson

Words linked to "Part-singing" : singing, vocalizing