唱しょう歌か

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

singing; song

Refers to singing or to a song, often with a school, simple-song, or somewhat old-fashioned flavor compared with everyday 歌 or 歌う. As 唱歌する, it means to sing, but it sounds more formal or dated than 歌う.

• 教きょう室しつから子こどもたちの唱しょう歌かが聞きこえた。

  The children's singing could be heard from the classroom.

• 母ははは懐なつかしい唱しょう歌かを口くちずさんだ。

  My mother hummed an old familiar song.

• 式しきの最さい後ごに全ぜん員いんで唱しょう歌かした。

  At the end of the ceremony, everyone sang together.

noun

prewar school music class; school music-class song

Obsolete historical school term, especially for music instruction or songs used in music classes at pre-WWII schools.

• 戦せん前ぜんの学がっ校こうでは、音おん楽がくの授じゅ業ぎょうを「唱しょう歌か」と呼よぶことがあった。

  In prewar schools, music class was sometimes called shōka.

• 祖そ父ふの古ふるい通つう知ち表ひょうには、科か目もく名めいとして「唱しょう歌か」と書かかれている。

  On my grandfather's old report card, shōka is written as the name of a subject.