glee (A part-song for male voices)

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• glee — glee1 /glee/, n. 1. open delight or pleasure; exultant joy; exultation. 2. an unaccompanied part song for three or more voices, popular esp. in the 18th century. [bef. 900; ME; OE gleo; c. ON gly; akin to GLOW] Syn. 1. merriment, jollity,… …   Universalium

• glee — n. 1 mirth; delight (watched the enemy s defeat with glee). 2 a song for three or more, esp. adult male, voices, singing different parts simultaneously, usu. unaccompanied. Phrases and idioms: glee club a society for singing part songs.… …   Useful english dictionary

• glee — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English glēo entertainment, music; akin to Old Norse glȳ joy, and perhaps to Greek chleuē joke Date: before 12th century 1. exultant high spirited joy ; merriment 2. a part song for usually male voices …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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• choral music — ▪ vocal music Introduction       music sung by a choir with two or more voices assigned to each part. Choral music is necessarily polyphonal i.e., consisting of two or more autonomous vocal (vocal music) lines. It has a long history in European… …   Universalium

• Edward MacDowell — Edward Alexander MacDowell (December 18, 1860 [Until 1975, it was generally accepted that MacDowell s year of birth was 1861. A scholarly article in The Musical Quarterly [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0027 4631(197504)61%3A2%3C233%3AEMBAC%3E2 …   Wikipedia