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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

... and with exaltation to the scherzo. Beyond a little part-singing at school she had no practical acquaintance with music; there had never been a piano at home. But she knew that this music was Beethoven's; and from the mere intonation of that name, as it was uttered in her presence in the house ...

— Hilda Lessways • Arnold Bennett

... (sometimes spelled cappella) or alla capella music is part-singing (either sacred ...

— Music Notation and Terminology • Karl W. Gehrkens

... 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

... at the time how much this exquisite part-singing was extemporized. The sound of it rung in my head—I assure you, reader, it rings there yet when I think of it—like a magic bell. Another day, however, when I begged for a repetition of it, the girls could recall nothing of it. They could ...

— The Gypsies • Charles G. Leland