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A glee club is a musical group or choir group, historically of male voices but also of female or mixed voices, which traditionally specializes in the singing of short songs—glees—by trios or quartets. In the late 19th century it was very popular in most schools and was made a tradition to have in American high schools from then on. The first named Glee Club was founded in Harrow School, in London, England, in 1787. Glee clubs were very popular in the UK from then until the mid-1850s but by then they were gradually being superseded by choral societies. ''Glee'' in this context does not refer to the mood of the music or of its singers, but to a specific form of English part song popular between 1650 and 1900, the glee. But by the mid-20th century, proper ''glee'' clubs were no longer common. The term remains in contemporary use, however, for choirs established in North American colleges, universities, and high schools, despite the fact that most American glee clubs are choruses in the standard sense, and rarely perform ''glees''. ==Oldest United States collegiate glee clubs== The oldest collegiate glee clubs in the United States are, by year of foundation: * 1858: Harvard Glee Club〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.harvardgleeclub.org/info/history/ )〕 * 1859: University of Michigan Men's Glee Club * 1861: Yale Glee Club * 1862: Wesleyan University Glee Club〔 〕 * 1862: The University of Pennsylvania Glee Club〔 〕 * 1865: Amherst College Glee Club〔 〕 * 1868: Cornell University Glee Club〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.gleeclub.com/about/history.php )〕 * 1869: Union College Men's Glee Club * 1871: Virginia Glee Club * 1872: Rutgers University Glee Club〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://eden.rutgers.edu/~rugc/history.html )〕 * 1874: Princeton Glee Club * 1875: The Ohio State University Men's Glee Club〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=Official webpage of The Ohio State University Men's Glee Club )〕 * 1911: The Morehouse College Glee Club〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=The Official Morehouse Glee Club Website )〕 The oldest non-collegiate glee club in the United States is the Mendelssohn Glee Club, founded in 1866. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Glee club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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