Glee club

A glee club is a choir, historically of men but also of just women or mixed voices, which traditionally specializes in singing short songs. Glee clubs originated in England, but are no longer common in Britain; modern glee clubs are primarily found in North American and Japanese colleges and universities. "Glee" in this context does not refer to the mood of the music or its singers, but to a specific form of English seventeenth and eighteenth century part song, the glee. Most American glee clubs are choruses in the standard sense and no longer perform "glees."

The oldest glee club in the United States is the Harvard Glee Club, founded in 1858. [citeweb
title=Student Organizations: Harvard Glee Club
url=http://www.college.harvard.edu/student/organizations/orgdetail?id=149
publisher=President & Fellows of Harvard College
accessdate=2006-12-14] ; however, the oldest continually operating glee club in the United States is the University of Pennsylvania Glee Club, founded in 1862. [citeweb
title=Holidy Shopping Around Campus. Almanac v. 53, No. 15
url=http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v53/n15/campus-shopping.html
publisher=The University of Pennsylvania
accessdate=2008-09-17]

ee also

* List of collegiate glee clubs

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