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glee

Part song, usually for male voices, in not less than three parts, much cultivated by English composers in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The word is derived from the Anglo-Saxon gliw (‘entertainment’), particularly musical entertainment. Samuel Webbe, Richard Stevens, John Callcott, William Horsley, Thomas Attwood, Jonathan Battishill, Benjamin Cooke, and others cultivated the glee.
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