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Part songs

Here are entered secular vocal chamber music works for solo voices or chorus, unaccompanied or with instruments, including collections and individual works in more than one language. Part songs in a single language are entered under the heading qualified by the language, e.g. Part songs, English.

Part songs composed in a specific form are entered under the form, e.g. Polyphonic chansons.

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• Vocal music

• Part songs -- 16th century
• Part songs -- 17th century
• Part songs -- Early works to 1800
• Part songs -- To 1800
• Canzonets (Part songs)
• Madrigals
• Motets
• Part songs, Basque
• Part songs, Catalan
• Part songs, Czech
• Part songs, Dutch
• Part songs, English
• Part songs, Flemish
• Part songs, French
• Part songs, Galician
• Part songs, German
• Part songs, German (Middle High German)
• Part songs, Italian
• Part songs, Latin
• Part songs, Sacred
• Part songs, Scots
• Part songs, Serbian
• Part songs, Spanish
• Part songs, Swedish
• Part songs, Yiddish

• Partsongs
• Secular part songs

• Cent motets du XIIIe siècle, publiés d'après le manuscrit Ed. IV. 6 de Bamberg. (Broude Brothers, 1964), by Pierre Aubry and Staatsbibliothek Bamberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sämmtliche Werke. (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1894), by Orlando di Lasso, Adolf Sandberger, and Fr. X. Haberl (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'arte musicale in Italia. Pubblicazione nazionale delle più importanti opere musicali italiane dal secolo XIV al XVIII, tratte da codici, antichi manoscritti ed edizioni primitive, scelte, trascritte in notazione moderna, messe in partitura (G. Ricordi, 1897), by Luigi Torchi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le chansonnier d'Arras; reproduction en phototypie ([Soc. des anciens textes français], 1925), by Alfred Jeanroy and France) Société des anciens textes français (Paris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Kopenhagener chansonnier; das Manuskript Thott 291⁸ der Königlichen bibliothek, Kopenhagen (Levin & Munksgaard;, 1927), by Viggo Brøndal and Knud Jeppesen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tutte le opere di Claudio Monteverdi ([publisher not identified], 1926), by Claudio Monteverdi and Gian Francesco Malipiero (page images at HathiTrust)
• Premier [-second livre] des Amours de Pierre de Ronsard. (M. Senart, 1926), by Antoine de Bertrand and Pierre de Ronsard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ausgewählte Werke (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1903), by Christian Erbach, Jacob Hassler, Rudolf Schwartz, Adolf Sandberger, Ernst von Werra, and Hans Leo Hassler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musica transalpina ... The second booke of madrigalles, to 5 & 6 voices (Printed by Thomas Este, 1597), by Nicholas Yonge and Thomas East (page images at HathiTrust)
• A selection of glees, trios, quartettes, &c., in vocal score, with an accompaniment for the pianoforte. (Novello, Ewer, 1800), by Henry R. Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of choruses for high schools and choral societies (Silver, Burdett, 1923), by William Otto Meissner, Edward B. Birge, and G. W. Chadwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sechs bisher nicht gedruckte dreistimmige Chansons für Tenor, Diskant und Kontratenor, c. 1425. Aus dem Codex Mus. Ms. 3192 der Müncher Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in moderne Notierung übertragen, mit neuem (deutschem) Text (Wiesbaden, 1892), by Gilles Binchois, Hugo Riemann, and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutsche dreistimmige Lieder nach Art der Neapolitanen : nebst Leonhard Lechner's fünfstimmiger Bearbeitung (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1895), by Jacob Regnart and Leonhard Lechner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ein hundert fünfzehn weltliche u. einige geistliche Lieder mit deutschem, lateinischem, französischem und italienischem Text zu vier, fünf und sechs Stimmen gesetzt von den bedeutendsten Meistern des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts / Text und Musik nach den besten Quellen hergestellt nebst einer Einleitung von Robert Eitner, Ludwig Erk u. Otto Kade. (L. Liepmannssohn, 1873), by John Stainer, Otto Kade, Ludwig Erk, Robert Eitner, and Hans Ott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Weltliche Werke. I. (Artaria & Co.;, 1907), by Heinrich Isaac and Johannes Wolf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drie madrigalen (Louis Roothaan, 1873), by Cornelis Schuyt, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, and Robert Eitner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zesstemmige madrigalen (De Algemeene Muziekhandel, Stumpff & Koning ;, 1901), by Jan Tollius and Max Seiffert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Madrigali a 5 voci, trascritti in notazione moderna con sottoposto un sunto per pianoforte Madrigals for 5 voices, transcribed in modern notation with a reduction underneath for the pianoforte by Ildebrando Pizzetti. (Istituto Editoriale Italiano, 1919), by Carlo Gesualdo and Ildebrando Pizzetti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temperance glee book (O. Ditson & Co., 1877), by Asa Hull (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ausgewählte Madrigale und mehrstimmige Gesänge (Breitkopf & Härtel, in the 1900s), by William Barclay Squire (page images at HathiTrust)
• The euterpean; a choice collection of popular choruses, quartets and part-songs, designed for the use of high schools (Silver, Burdett, 1888), by John Wheeler Tufts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harvard university glee club collection of part songs for men's voices. (E. C. Schirmer, 1922), by Archibald T. Davison and Harvard Glee Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• A graded bibliography of part songs for schools. (The Alumni association, Institute of pedagogy, 1923), by Northampton (Mass.). Institute of music pedagogy. Alumni association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of Uppingham School; a collection of part-songs and choruses ... (Novello, Ewer, & Co., in the 19th century), by Uppingham School (page images at HathiTrust)
• The David Bispham treasury of song : selected choruses for mixed voices for home, school and community singing and for choral societies (Universal Book and Bible House, 1920), by David Bispham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Part songs, for three and four female voices (O. Ditson, 1861), by S. Müller and Fanny Raymond Ritter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le printemps. (A. Leduc, 1900), by Claude Le Jeune and Jean-Antoine de Baïf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mélanges (premier fascicule) (A. Leduc, 1903), by Eustache Du Caurroy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The temple choir: a collection of sacred and secular music, comprising a great variety of tunes, anthems, glees, elementary exercises and social songs, suitable for use in the choir, the singing school, and the social circle. (Mason Bros., 1867), by Theodore F. Seward, William B. Bradbury, and Lowell Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Halcyon song-book (Silver, Burdett & company, 1909), by Leonard B. Marshall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte der Musik (F. E. C. Leuckart, 1887), by August Wilhelm Ambros, Hugo Leichtentritt, Otto Kade, Heinrich Reimann, Carl Ferdinand Becker, B. von Sokolowsky, and Gustav Nottebohm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parks' humorous quartets and encores ... (J. A. Parks Company, 1897), by J. A. Parks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catches, rounds, two-part and three-part song (Novello, 1990), by Henry Purcell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melodia olympica de diversi eccellentissimi musici. (Editions culture et civilisation, 1970), by Peter Philips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Part-songs for mixed voices. (J. Fischer & Bro., 1913) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Now spring in all her glory : quartet, or chorus for mixed voices (G. Schirmer, 1893), by Jacob Arcadelt and H. W. Nicholl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musica transalpina. (J. Williams, 1894), by Alfonso Ferrabosco and G. E. P. Arkwright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sämtliche Werke. (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1894), by Orlando di Lasso, Adolf Sandberger, and Fr. X. Haberl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chansonnettes mesurées de Ian-Antoine de Baïf. (A. Leduc, 1899), by Jacques Mauduit, Henry Expert, and Jean-Antoine de Baïf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poésies de P. de Ronsard et autres poètes. (A. Leduc, 1902), by François Regnart, Henry Expert, and Pierre de Ronsard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fantastic spirits. (J. Williams, 1895), by Thomas Weelkes and G. E. P. Arkwright (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Boylston Club; a collection of part songs for male voices. (G. D. Russell, 1875), by J. P. Weston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drei Lieder für vierstimmigen Männerchor, op. 27 = [3 part songs for mens̓ voices] (Boston : Arthur P. Schmidt Co., 1890), by Edward MacDowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'arte musicale in Italia. : Pubblicazione nazionale delle più importanti opere musicali italiane dal secolo XIV al XVIII (G. Ricordi & C., 1897), by Luigi Torchi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cecilian glee book a collection of four-part songs, glees, and secular choruses ... music arranged (a portion with piano-forte accompaniment) for the use of societies, schools, choirs, clubs, and the social circle (Wilkins, Carter & Co., 1850), by Edward L. White and A. N. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sechs [i.e. Sieben] Trienter codices : geistliche und weltliche Compositionen des XV. Jahrhunderts. 1.-[7.] Auswahl. (Artaria, 1900), by Rudolf Ficker, Oswald Koller, and Guido Adler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music, cantelenas, songs, etc., from an early fifteenth century manuscript ... (Printed at the Dryden Press, by J. Davy & Sons], 1906), by L. S. M. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Madrigal; part song for mixed voices [words by] Thomas Weelkes ... (The Boston Music Co., 1913), by George Balch Nevin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Angiol di pace (C. Breusing :, 1861), by Vincenzo Bellini and George Danskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• When I am gone from thee (New York : G. Schirmer, [1866], 1866), by F. Campana and H. Millard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Part-songs for women's voices (2 and 3 parts) (Schirmer, 1890), by Frederic W. Root (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cecilia collection of part-songs for two women's voices : for use in schools, seminaries and singing classes (G. Schirmer, 1898), by Max Spicker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The crescent (Chicago Music Co., 1886), by C. E. Leslie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Male quartet and chorus book (H.L. Benham, 1878), by W. T. Giffe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chansons : (Attaingnant 1529 (?)) (Maurice Senart, 1898), by Clément Janequin and Pierre Attaingnant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Motettorum quae partim quinis, partim senis, partim octonis vocibus concinantur. (Venetiis : Apud Haeredem Hieronymi Scoti, MDLXXV [1575], 1575), by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Duke of Ferrara Alfonso II d'Este, Alfred Cortot, and Erede di Girolamo Scotto (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialoghi e sonetti (In Roma : Appresso Francesco Zannetti, M.DC.XXXVIII [1638], 1638), by D. Mazzocchi, Torquato Tasso, Francesco Zannetti, Virgil, Roberto Ubaldini, Claudio Achillini, Pope Urban VIII, Ippolito Aldobrandini, and Liverpool Mechanics' Institution (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Chautauqua chorus book no. 1 (Novello, Ewer, 1902), by Alfred Hallam (page images at HathiTrust)
• The part song galaxy. Vol. I : consisting of part songs and quartettes, composed, selected and edited, for the use of quartette clubs, choral societies, and the home circle ([Place of publication not identified] : W.F. Sudds, [1882], 1882), by W. F. Sudds and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Training school part-songs : from the school song book of J. Rudolf Weber ... (Ward & Co., 1800), by William J. Unwin, J. Rudolf Weber, and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stabat mater : for two sopranos, tenor and bass and chorus (G. Schirmer, 1850), by G. A. Rossini and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Chansonnier d'Arras, reproduction en phototypie: (Paris, 1925), by Alfred Jeanroy, Bibliothèque d'Arras, and France) Société des anciens textes français (Paris (page images at HathiTrust)

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