part music

1. 1.

   vocal music for several voices in independent parts (usually performed without accompaniment)

   Broadermusic

   Narrowerhomophony

Questions about part music

What does part music mean?

part music means "vocal music for several voices in independent parts (usually performed without accompaniment)".

Is part music a common word?

part music is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.