看似無奇的高三英文,誰知我又被問倒了。看完解答才知原來如此。以後不敢再說我懂高中英文了...

glee, in its original sense, to be, 'a song of three or more parts, upon a gay or merry subject, in which all the voices begins and end together, singing the same words. and when subjects of fugue or imitation occur, and the composition is more artifucial than simple counterpoint, it less resembles a glee than a madrigal, which it might whith more propriety be called, if the words are serious; for a serious glee seems a soleciam, and a direct contradiction in terms; the word glee, in saxon, german, and english dictionaries, ancient and modern, implying mirth, merriment, and in old authors, music itself. this definition of the glee, in its oldest form, seems correct, and establishes the distinction between the cheerful glee and the catch. both wore songs in three or more parts, upon gay subjects; but, in the on, the voices began and ended together, while, in the other, they took up their parts in succession.

~ adapted from waldie's select circulating library, vol. 11, pp. 277

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