Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In music, a book in which the notes for any one voice in part-music are given. In early times all part-music was thus separately written or printed.

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  • Ransdell returned to the stage, went up to Mildred, who was sitting idly turning the leaves of a part-book.

    The Price She Paid. 1911

  • Ransdell returned to the stage, went up to Mildred, who was sitting idly turning the leaves of a part-book.

    The Price She Paid David Graham Phillips 1889

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