part song

Let us take six gentlemen met together to learn the old thirteenth-century part-song, the round entitled ‘Sumer is icumen in.’

He went over to the piano and they sang a part song, "Oh, who will o'er the downs so free?"

Suddenly, from a grove behind us, came the sound of children's voices singing an old German part-song.

A part-song is a composition for two or more voices, (usually four) to be sung a capella.

The part song method was at the basis of all these old lute songs.