Part Songs Latin -- See Also the narrower term Part songs, Sacred Here are entered collections of sacred part-songs and separately published sacred part-songs.Sacred part-songs with texts in a language other than Latin are assigned a second heading, e.g. Part-songs, English.Sacred part-songs composed in a form are entered under the name of the form, e.g.: Anthems, Motets, etc.
Part Songs Secular -- See Part songs The term Part-songs is here defined as a type of vocal chamber music which may be performed by solo voices or a choral ensemble, with or without doubling or even with replacement by instruments; it applies to early music through the beginning of the seventeenth century and other works composed in a similar manner.Here are entered collections of secular part-songs and separately published secular part-songs with texts in more than one language. Part-songs with texts in one language are entered under Part-songs qualified by language, e.g. Part-songs, English.Part-songs composed in a form are entered under the name of the form, e.g. Polyphonic chansons.
