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Glee Club

Alternate meanings: See Glee Club (Birmingham), Glee Club (Liberalism).

A Glee Club is a chorus, historically of men but also of just women or mixed voices, which specializes in singing short songs. Glee Clubs originated in England, but are no longer common in Britain; modern Glee Clubs are primary found in North American colleges and universities. Contrary to popular belief, a Glee Club is not necessarily a club full of gleeful people or a chorus that sings gleeful songs. Instead, the name comes from a specific form of English seventeenth and eighteenth century part song, the glee.

The oldest Glee Club in the United States is the Harvard Glee Club, founded in 1858.

The oldest continually-operating Glee Club in the United States is the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) Glee Club, founded in 1862.

The Cornell University Glee Club was founded in 1868.

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