CATCH, a form of concerted vocal music virtually indis tinguishable from the round, save for the fact that it is always humorous in character. The catch had its greatest vogue in earlier centuries, when also the words to which it was sung were too often more jocose than refined. Particulars of various collections available occupy a column of small print in Grove. Of the in numerable catch and glee clubs which existed in England in former days one, known simply as the Catch Club, founded as long ago as 1761, still exists. (See also under CANON, CONTRA
